Install Brave on Fedora
wget https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.repo sudo dnf config-manager addrepo –from-repofile=./brave-browser.repo sudo dnf install brave-browser Tested on Fedora 41
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Graphical Desktop On Fedora 41 Server
The default install of Fedora 41 Server is text based. To install a graphical desktop execute the following as root: dnf -y install gnome-desktop4 gnome-session-wayland-session gnome-classic-session f41-backgrounds-gnome gnome-control-center gnome-panel gnome-terminal gnome-text-editor gnome-calculator gnome-calendar gnome-disk-utility gnome-font-viewer gnome-logs gnome-usage gnome-system-monitor gnome-session-xsession firefox … Continue reading →
Gnome on Fedora 41
If you set up Fedora 41 server and realized later you need the graphical desktop, execute this as root: dnf -y install gnome-desktop4 gnome-session-wayland-session gnome-classic-session f41-backgrounds-gnome gnome-control-center gnome-panel gnome-terminal gnome-text-editor gnome-calculator gnome-calendar gnome-disk-utility gnome-font-viewer gnome-logs gnome-usage gnome-system-monitor gnome-session-xsession firefox libreoffice … Continue reading →
Add dummy network interface to Linux
There are many reasons why you would do this, most of which are for testing and learning. Not going to go into why – just going to do it. nmcli con add type dummy ifname dummy0 con-name dummy0 ipv4.address 10.101.101.1/24 … Continue reading →
postfix smart relay
Configure postfix to relay all email via a selected server Edit your /etc/postfix/main.cf file if you have a line starting with smtp_tls_security_level = (something) insert a # at the begining of that line. Then add the following lines to the … Continue reading →
Linux keeps going into suspend
I have a desktop machine that keeps going into suspend. I want this machine to never go into suspend. First execute this systemctl status sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target You will get four answers – look for the entries “Loaded: loaded” … Continue reading →
Crontab time format
|——————————- Minute (0-59) | |————————- Hour (0-23) | | |——————- Day of the month (1-31) | | | |————- Month (1-12; or JAN to DEC) | … Continue reading →
Set default kernel version to use at boot time
Applies to: Fedora 38 and higher, Centos 7 and higher See which kernel version you will boot into on next boot: root@mysystem:~# grubby –default-kernel /boot/vmlinuz-6.9.4-100.fc39.x86_64 Review all kernels you have on your system root@mysystem:~# grubby –info=ALL index=0 kernel=”/boot/vmlinuz-6.9.4-200.fc40.x86_64″ args=”ro rhgb … Continue reading →
Quick And Dirty Mass Emailer Using Swaks
Tested on Fedora 39 Install swaks sudo dnf -y install swaks Create a text file with the email address of every recipient – one email address per line. Name the file list.txt Create a html file that is your email. … Continue reading →
RemoteDesktop on Linux
The following has been tested on Fedora 39, 40 and 41 and Rocky 9 First – install the software sudo dnf -y install xrdp xorgxrdp-glamor edit /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini Find the line [Xvnc]. Comment out that section by putting a # in … Continue reading →