today's howtos
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How to install Guest Additions on Rocky Linux 9/Alma Linux 9 /Red hat 9 ?
We recently explained how to install VirtualBox 7 on Rocky Linux 9 / Alma Linux 9 / Red Hat 9. Now you will learn how to install Guest Additions on these systems. You’ll see that it’s simple.
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How To Install ClamAV on Fedora 37 - idroot
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install ClamAV on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know, Clam is an open-source antivirus engine that is used for trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats. ClamAV offers a Command-line scanner, a Milter interface for Sendmail, an Advanced database updater, and built-in support for archive formats, ELF executables + Portable Executable files, and popular document formats. It was developed for Unix and has third-party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OSF, and Solaris.
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 ClamAV on a Fedora 37.
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How to Enable Fingerprint Login on a Laptop Running Ubuntu
Fingerprint authentication is more secure than traditional password-based authentication. Here's how to set up a fingerprint login on Ubuntu.
Biometric authentication methods such as facial or fingerprint recognition, are an effective way to keep your device secure and protect it from unauthorized access.
If you've purchased a laptop recently, there's a good chance it has a fingerprint scanner, which you can use to enable fingerprint login. Unlike Windows, though, using the fingerprint scanner for login on Linux isn't as straightforward, albeit it's gotten a bit easier over the years.
Here's how you can enable fingerprint login on a laptop running Ubuntu to secure it and protect your data onboard.
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What are AppImages and how do you use them on Linux? | ZDNET
Linux has several viable routes to installing applications. There's every distribution's built-in package manager, such as apt, dnf, zypper, and pacman. There are also Snap and Flatpak packages and even installing from source.
Another method is called the AppImage, which is a unique format for distributing Linux applications in such a way that they don't require installation and can be run without admin privileges. In other words, you download the AppImage for an application and run it. That's it.