One of the best things about Linux is how basically anything is possible. Out of the box most Linux distros get a lot right, but there are some great tweaks you do to make the experience even better. This is aimed at GNOME users (e.g; Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS all use GNOME out of […]
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If you have a modern pair of Bluetooth headphones, chances are it supports aptX. I personally prefer the sound of the AAC Bluetooth codec, but aptX-LL (Low Latency) is a must-have if your headphones support it for watching videos and minimising A/V sync issues. If your headphones support aptX-HD or Sony’s LDAC, you’ll also want
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As part of a new blogpost series, we’re going to be picking a monthly winner for our UI of the Month contest. Every Reddit thread we come across recommends the same things, and it’s not much better on theme marketplaces either so we’ve decided to share a new theme + icon pack every month. Icon Pack:
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Installing ClamAV on CentOS 8.2 and configuring it to scan your server regularly is a pretty easy process. While there are better commercial virus scanners available with real-time scanning etc, ClamAV is completely free and is great for scanning your server on a regular basis for some peace of mind. In this guide I’ll walk
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If you’ve bumped into the “Hard disk quota is not supported due to the configuration of the server file system.” error in Plesk, or just need to enable hard disk quotas this guide is for you! This guide is tested on CentOS 8 with Plesk installed, but only the last step includes Plesk specific commands
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ClamAV is a FOSS anti-virus product, and while it doesn’t offer features we’re all used to now such as real-time scanning we’ll walk you through the process of configuring a cronjob to scan on a regular basis. Premium AV is still our recommendation if you want advanced security, but ClamAV is sufficient for most use
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[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=”100%”]Update: Fedora 33 includes support for exFAT! 🥳🎉[/box] In 2019 Microsoft opened up the the exFAT specifications, and while exFAT drive support should be coming to the Linux kernel soon and distributions like Ubuntu include support out-of-box, Fedora does not yet support exFAT drives without a couple of extra tools. To
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One of the best things about using a popular desktop environment like GNOME is that there are thousands of different themes available, each of them doing things in their own unique way. Here is a list of our top 5 this month, most of them have different colour options so you can pick lighter/darker modes
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GNOME is a powerful desktop environment for Linux/BSD/Unix-like operating systems, but by default lots of useful features are hidden. The good news is there’s a tool called GNOME Tweaks that you can use to manage your GNOME instance and do anything from configure extensions, to change your icon pack and cursor. CLI: To install GNOME
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Now they’re on a 4 week release cycle, a new month brings a new Firefox update. This time around the team at Mozilla is treating us to Firefox 78 and with it have brought some fairly significant changes. So, what’s new? What’s hot? Firefox 78’s headline feature is the Protections Dashboard. It includes consolidated reports
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