If you are using your Linux machine along with any display having resolution higher than 720p, then chances are that every artifact such as icons or buttons either looks too small or too large. This is because Fractional scaling has been missing from Linux desktops from quite some time. The previous X11 display server didn’t […]
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Samba is an open-source software suite that provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. It is a re-implementation of the SMB (Server Message Block) and CIFS (Common Internet File System) protocols and allows Linux and Unix-based systems to share files and printers with Windows clients and servers. This tutorial will install Samba on CentOs
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It is quite rare for a lot of things to be completely under our control. However, something that is extremely rare is an employer that is willing to give you the device that supports the platform you like. Especially as a Linux user, your options would be little to none as most of the companies
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DNF is the default package manager in RHEL, Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, Fedora, and CentOS along with the YUM package manager. Upgrading your distribution is very simple using these package managers. However, we don’t always want to update certain packages like MySQL, PHP, Apache Server (HTTP), and other important applications which will certainly break many
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In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to install CentOS on VirtualBox. CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) is a group of Linux Distribution supporting free and open-source community-supported software. It was started in 2003 and since 2014 has been backed by Red Hat. It is however discontinued, and the last release was on 16th November 2021.
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If you’re using a Fedora or RHEL-based Linux distribution, you’re probably familiar with RPM files. These are the files that contain all the necessary information to install a software program on your system. In order to install an RPM file, you’ll need to use a package manager like dnf or yum. In this tutorial, we’ll
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In this article, we’ll set up HAProxy as a load balancer for Nginx on CentOS. We assume you already have NGINX service set up and running. What is load balancing? A load balancer sits in between the client and the server and distributes the network traffic across multiple servers. Its sole purpose is to distribute
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In this article we’ll learn how to disable IPv6 on CentOS. How to check if I have IPv6 enabled or not? To check if you have IPv6 enabled or not, execute the following command: If you have IPv6 enabled, it will output something like in the picture below. whereas if the IPv6 disabled, there will
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In this article, we’ll learn about how to mount CIFS share in CentOS 7. Server Message Block (SMB) of which the version SMB1 is also known as Common Internet File System (CIFS). It is a network file system protocol. A network file system provides access to the local directories and files of the server remotely
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Every Linux distribution has a command line application called as package manager. Its main job is to take care of dependency resolution and install them whenever you try to install a new software and make sure that the installed dependencies do not conflict with other software programs which are already present on your system. Red
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