Microsoft announced on Wednesday that WSLg, the Microsoft-developed WSL GUI, is finally available for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel after teasing it previously. This brings official support for Linux GUI apps to run alongside Windows ones, potentially ending the need for some people to dual-boot Windows and Linux. What works? Clipboard copy/paste ✅ Sound […]
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Apple might not make iPods any more, but there’s something of an iPod revival going on at the moment. I dug out my old iPod mini with 4GB spinning tiny very small hard disk the size of a CF card. You’ll need to make sure Rhythmbox is installed (comes with Ubuntu and Fedora, may come
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Cloudflare advertise Access as a VPN replacement for web-based applications. It replaces the usually fairly basic authentication methods used when dialling in over VPN with SSO linked to any of the major SSO providers (Azure AD, G Suite, Okta, etc). [box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Note: You need to have the domain on Cloudflare’s DNS. Cloudlfare
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This month we’ve picked some of the best looking GNOME/GTK3 themes available from Pling. Almost every theme we’ve picked has dark/light variants and some have coloured variants too. We’ve used the Papirus icon pack available here. Venta X Dark Screenshot: Download URL: https://www.pling.com/p/1396612 Ant Screenshot: Download URL: https://www.pling.com/p/1099856/ Orchis Screenshot: Download URL: https://www.pling.com/p/1357889/ Materials Original
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[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=”100%”]Note: This guide is based on the guide made by the developer available at https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse, but that guide is for Ubuntu.[/box] Download dependencies: sudo dnf install fuse fuse-devel libicu-devel bzip2 bzip2-devel cmake clang git zlib-devel Clone from Github: git clone https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse.git cd apfs-fuse git submodule init git submodule update Then build:
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As many are likely already aware, Fedora is RedHat’s free (in both senses) Linux distribution. It shuns proprietary software and code and instead only includes FOSS at every level from kernel to userland. Fedora 33 launched today, so let’s have a look and see what’s changed. UI Updates: GNOME: Fedora 33 ships with GNOME 3.38,
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Kali for WSL comes with a GUI baked right in, but since I only just realised this I thought it was worth doing a quick post on it. To get the Kali GUI on Windows, install WSL first – we have a guide on installing WSL 2 here: https://www.gadgethow2.com/2020/10/16/windows-10-wsl2/ Then download Kali from the Microsoft
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RPM Fusion is a repository project offering software the Fedora team does not want to include in their own repositories. There are two different repos (free and nonfree). They’re both free as in money, but nonfree includes proprietary software. To enable the repos, use the commands below (running both is fine, but it depends on
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Canonical has released Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla, while not much has changed over 20.04 it does bring us a handful of new things (namely GNOME 3.38.0, ZFS is no longer classified as experimental, and the Linux Kernel 5.8). 1. Install a new theme and icons 20.10 might have only just been released, but Ubuntu’s UI
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[box type=”note” align=”” class=”” width=”100%”]Note: we’d highly recommend using a hard firewall and requiring traffic to come via Cloudflare that way, but not everybody has that kind of access. This method still allows traffic to reach the server from outside of Cloudflare’s network, but Apache will then deny access to the site. This will still
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