today's howtos
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How To Install PlayOnLinux on Fedora 37 - idroot
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PlayOnLinux on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know, PlayOnLinux is free software that enables one to easily install and use Windows applications and games. PlayOnLinux has a database of Windows applications from which the user can install the desired applications with a few clicks. Fedora is one distribution that makes it easy to install PlayOnLinux with the application being available in the default repositories.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of PlayOnLinux on a Fedora 37.
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Understanding how fast Ethernet really is (and in what units)
I've been around computer networking for a long time, but in all of that time I've never fully understood what the speed numbers of the various Ethernet standards actually meant. I knew what sort of bandwidth performance I could expect from '1 Gigabit' Ethernet as measured on TCP streams, but I didn't know exactly what '1G' meant, beyond that it was measured in bits (for example, was it powers of ten G or powers of two G). My quiet confusion was likely increased by the numbers that the Prometheus host agent reports, where a Gigabit Ethernet interface is reported as '125,000,000'.
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How to use a Raspberry Pi in kiosk mode
Kiosk mode on Raspberry Pi allows you to boot straight into a full-screen web page or an application without the need to use the desktop environment.