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Published at LXer: The 30-year-old ext2 filesystem is marked as deprecated in the upcoming Linux kernel 6.9 for lacking dates support beyond 2038. Read More......

I have a Lenovo C940 with 16gb ram, 1tb ssd, running Fedora 39 Cinnamon desktop which is up to date. I am also using a wireless Logitech mouse with the dongle plugged into a type "A" usb port (there...

Published at LXer: An open standard challenger appearsThe UXL Foundation is readying its open standard accelerator programming model, touted by some as an alternative to Nvidia's CUDA platform, for...

Published at LXer: The Tails 6.1 amnesic incognito live system, a portable operating system that protects you against surveillance and censorship, is now available for download as the first update...

Published at LXer: Plausible is an open-source web analytics alternative to Google Analytics. It's lightweight and privacy-focused web analytics that can be used for multiple industries such as...

hello i use a bit mastodon to filter a bit requsets from others people on several ineternet plateforms (reddit, forums..) eg i just let a mastodon instead of email or xmpp well, i was thinking :...

I am trying to set up Samba using the instructions at https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=slackware:samba I think that I have the server set up ok but I am having difficulty with the client side...

I have been attempting to connect a set of Midi drums (an Alesis DM6) to my machine with no success. I am using the Midi controller's standard USB interface with a USB 2 type B to type A cable. The...

It's so annoying having to constantly use sudo modprobe -r psmouse because the system decided to randomly drop the connection every X minutes/hours/insert random time period. Is anyone working to fix...

Published at LXer: This article benchmarks the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite unless otherwise stated. We compare the FIREBATis benchmarks with a couple of...

Hello, In Debian, when I want to install a package using the *dpkg -i* command, is it possible to change the installation location? Thank you.

Published at LXer: Article delves into the reasons for utilizing your custom Test Farm images and explores potential automation methods with Hashicorp Packer. Read More......

Hi, Here is a script, that point to slackware.uk "cumulative" repo, to revert easily to a previous version of a package, in some case this can be the only workaround to avoid a temporarily breakage...

Power Automate offers both free and paid plans. *Free Plan:* Power Automate offers a free plan that allows users to create and run unlimited flows with certain limitations. The free plan includes a...

Published at LXer: Removing snapd from Ubuntu can be an essential step for users who prefer a leaner system or wish to rely exclusively on traditional package management tools like APT. Snap...

Hello! Im using slackware current. When update the system around 20 march my sd cards became read only mode. The same card is read write mode on another machine also with slackware but without this...

Published at LXer: Canonical announces 12-year support for Ubuntu LTS, including 14.04 LTS, with the Legacy Support add-on for Ubuntu Pro. Here's more on that! Read More......

Published at LXer: USENET is the oldest social media network still accessible today. Learn some of the best readers for browsing USENET in Linux today. Read More......

Hello, Hey, Lets compare our ARM boards using glxgears (FPS)... Code: --------- apt-get install mesa-utils ---------

Published at LXer: KDE Plasma 6.0.3 streamlines the desktop experience with critical bug fixes in the system monitor, SDK, and startup sound settings. Read More......

Published at LXer: The Blender Foundation released today Blender 4.1 as a new update to its powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform 3D graphics computer software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and...

running on slackware-14.2 & its linux-5.4.198 kernel . Mouse is connected to a KLau 4Port KVM switch . The entries shown below can sometimes be upto 10 or more deep causing the mouse & keyboard...

Published at LXer: Blender 4.1 3D creation suite releases with game-changing performance boosts and quality-of-life improvements. Here's more on that! Read More......

SMPlayer always defaults to None in the subtitle selection Primary Track. Am I able to have the prg select a subtitle file automatically instead of the Default "None". Thanks for your replies

Published at LXer: Two weeks after KDE Plasma 6.0.2, the KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.0.3 as the third of five planned maintenance updates for the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment...

This may be not entirely Slackware on Aarch64 related, but people here might know. I want to play with controlling the computer with a TV remote, and it is supposed to be done with the CEC...

All my steam games are installed on a Bcache (read-cache only) setup: - Backing device: 1TB HDD - Cache device: 256GB NVME I presume it will be fine because read-cache only? Its not the end of...

Published at LXer: DNF5 can replace the current package manager in Fedora 41, as the proposal has been made and is pending approval. Read More......

I have 2 GPUs, a 5700xt and a hd4350. The hd4350 uses the RADEON driver, part of MESA AMBER (legacy) branch, and the 5700xt uses AMDGPU, part of MESA (main). Would there be a problem having both in...

I just learned about the Code: --------- stat --------- command and am sad to see that the Birth time is always empty :(

Published at LXer: The Fedora Project announced today the release and general availability for download of the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 40 operating system featuring some of the...

Hi, after the latest upgrade of Emacs in Slackware64 15.0, some stuff was broken so I did M-x package-upgrade-all, and after that everything seemed to work just fine. But today I noticed my system...

Published at LXer: UrBackup is billed as an easy to set up client/server backup system. It can make image and file backups with both data safety and a fast restoration time. Read More......

Not really a new membership post, but an old one.... I was posting a question about why my computer does not have a sleep option (here...

Published at LXer: A malvertising campaign has been discovered that deploys a fake PuTTY client to deliver the Rhadamanthys stealer, a dangerous malware . The attackers exploit the trust placed in...

Here is some tooling to help those interested in automatically updating their system. The tooling is in bash and is intended to be simple enough to customize to your preferences. The vanilla setup...

*Background:* My laptop, with Linux Mint 21.3 (Cinnamon) installed, died, several days ago. I purchased a new Lenovo laptop @ Staples, returning it within the 10-day grace period. I then purchased...

from another terminal, this works as is: Code: --------- #!/bin/bash xterm -geometry auto -fullscreen -fa "Courier 10 Pitch" -fs 14 --------- COLUMNS shell variable is set to to 174

Hi, I'm facing what I think is a weird problem with postfix and xoauth2 and I'm not able to debug it. I have two machines, my laptop and my home server, both running updated slackware 15. ...

Hello, Suppose you have a number of physical and virtual servers. You want to know which of these servers need to be updated or for which of them there is a problem. Which management tool do you use?...

Published at LXer: Fedora Linux 40 Beta is available for download and testing. Help us find and eliminate bugs so they don't make it into the final release! Read More......

Published at LXer: GNOME 46 is available in Tumbleweed's stable repositories just six days after its launch. The Aeon edition also adopts it. Read More......

Hi, I do a lot of reading and taking notes. When I leave the pdf window to take notes I struggle to see where I was. This is annoying and leads to some frustration to always look up where I was in...

conntrackd.conf Can someone please clarify if there is a parameter SocketBufferSizeMaxGrown or if that is a typo for SocketBufferSizeMaxGrowth I don't quite understand how it works because...

Published at LXer: This is a small guide on what tools and extensions we used to create the FOSS Outpost forum. It could be helpful for any folks out there who want to create a modern forum...

I'd like a one-line (that I can put in my crontab), something like this? $ cp Regards, Martin

Hi, I'm using xpdf & want to change the scrollbar colour (if possible) since it's not easily visible. How do I find the X11 resources to tweak this?. Running Code: --------- edires

Published at LXer: PgHero is an open-source and web-based tool designed to monitor PostgreSQL via a web browser. This post will show you how to install PgHero on Ubuntu 22.04. Read More......

I had been using the headphone jack on my computer's mainframe to plug in my headphones to listen to sound, but today it suddenly stopped making sound.:confused: The speaker option in the audio...

Published at LXer: I thought it would be a good idea to share my experience implementing servers for personal use. It wasnit easy to know the best fit for my workload and it has been a moving...