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Dear members From my /work directory by going into it, when I type ---Quote--- du -cbsh ---End Quote--- the total disk storage occupancy is 145 GB.

Published at LXer: There are several general categories of DoS attacks . Some groups divide attacks into three classes: bandwidth attacks, protocol attacks, and logic attacks. Following are brief...

Which is better for internet privacy and security? Taking into account TOR and VPNs... Whonix or Kodachi?

Dear members From my /work directory by going into it, when I type ---Quote--- du -cbsh ---End Quote--- the total disk storage occupancy is *145 GB*.

I'm trying to set a window's geometry (position+dsize). There's *wmctrl* & *xdotool* but their geometry isn't always accurate, so trying *xprop*. Code: --------- xprop -name firefox ---------...

Hi I was using pivpn and pihole on the same pi and it worked flawlessly. Since then I have a new internet provider who uses CGNAT and I can no longer get through, so have switched to tailscale,...

Published at LXer: FreeBSD developers are assessing the possibility and benefits of bringing Rust into the base system. Read More... (https://debugpointnews.com/freebsd-rust/)

Yesterday, after upgrading -current and a reboot, I noticed that font rendering in Vivaldi suddenly changed. The slackware changelog, for instance, is now rendered with a serif font. In Chromium it...

Published at LXer: Vorta is a cross-platform Qt-based backup client. It makes managing Borg backups easy by offering a friendly graphical interface. This frontend to BorgBackup is free and open...

Published at LXer: Odoo offers a wide range of applications, from accounting and inventory management to CRM and e-commerce, making it a popular choice for businesses of all sizes. Its steep...

Published at LXer: The Linux Mint team announced today the release and general availability for download of the iEDGEi ISO flavor of the latest Linux Mint 21.3 iVirginiai release for those who need...

KDE Neon plasma, latest update. The drive mounts on my Android mobile, mounts on my wife's Apple laptop, but NOT on my HP Probook Laptop. Any suggestions welcome. Cheers

I'm using an old Dell Optiplex. Legacy booting with Lilo. No problems just wondering security wise?

Published at LXer: The 171st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 21st, 2024, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in...

Published at LXer: Since discovering the allure of Linux, I've often pondered why such a sophisticated system hasn't dominated the desktop operating system market. This question persisted until I...

Published at LXer: The development of the Linux kernel continues with Linux 6.8, the next major kernel release, and Linus Torvalds just announced today the availability of the first Release...

When I am looking at files in Linux's file explorer, each file has an icon on the left and a name on the right. The icons represent the mimetype of the file , for example .so. .sh or .properties. ...

do you know how can I make this bluetooth 5.3 dongle work on debian stable? Should I change the kernel? Or just wait a year?

Published at LXer: Putting aside the growing share of GNU/Linux, Android is already quite vast. No wonder revenues associated with Windows are down so sharply, based on Microsoft. Read More......

I had my main desktop PC reinstalled with current a while back, so this is a quite recent installation of current... After I asked if digikam needed an rebuild, I was noticed upon that I had missed...

I'm getting bounce messages from mfoley@addns.ohprs.org. I think this addns subdomain was set up many years ago, I forget why. I'm trying to remove it, but it does not show up at the DNS host, network...

Hi to all, my linux Debian doesn't read android smartphone via USB. I tried reading many posts but couldn't find a solution. When I connect the smartphone on the smartphone it appears to activate...

After the latest updates, Spectacle kept showing an error with the libraries, specifically with libvpx.so.8. Code: --------- spectacle: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.8:...

Hello, I have a Tor server with IP address 172.20.1.100 and I want only IP addresses in the range 172.20.1.0/24 to be able to connect to it. Is the following iptables rule correct? Code:...

Published at LXer: The Mozilla Firefox 122 web browser is now available for download ahead of its official release on January 23rd, 2024, so itis time to take a look at the new features and...

Hiya folks, Yep, it's me again with another adventure. This time I tried to install 'gajim' from SBo. It had quite a few dependencies, and several of the dependencies had more dependencies....

Hello all, I am thinking of switching to Fedora from OpenSUSE as I am not too happy about it. In my dekstop computer there are 2 SSDs installed: - older one with 500GB - new one with 1000GB...

Recently I turned on my linux laptop to run some updates, now it had been a couple of months since I last turned on the laptop. I don't think that would really have any effect on the issue at hand but...

Linux Mint Cinnamon Victoria, OEM motherboard, OEM desktop computer. My HDD will not boot despite using fsck etc. The boot files seem to be damaged, and I had previously noticed that it had a lot...

I make VLC playlists (.xspf) on my main drive in the same directory as the media contained in those lists. After a while I move everything to a backup drive. Sometimes I make a variation of those...

Hello, I want to hide OpenVPN over HTTPS. I found this (https://snikt.net/blog/2016/12/01/how-not-to-hide-openvpn-behind-https/ssl/) article for that. I have two questions: 1. The article uses...

Greetings from Portugal @10:37hrs, Hardware: Hp Pavilion desktop, 8Gib memory, i5-8400 CPU @2.8GHz x6, UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) I'm running with Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS, 64-bit, Gnome 42.9 Windowing...

I am facing an issue with a Dell server having CentOS 7. Other than the default LAN ports, an extra NIC (Broadcom5720 DP 1GB) has been installed in the server for network connectivity. The ports in...

Code: --------- maketopsite:/home/maketopsite # LANG=C zypper lp Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Repository | Name ...

Hello, I was using Wayland Raspios (debian "customized") for RPI4. arm64 Raspberry Pi OS with desktop Release date: December 5th 2023 System: 64-bit Kernel version: 6.1 Debian version: 12...

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Published at LXer: Nora is billed as an elegant music player. Itis built using Electron and React. This is free and open source software. Read More... (https://linuxlinks.com/nora-music-player/)

Published at LXer: Single Sign-On (sometimes known as SSO) is an authentication process that allows users to log in to multiple independent applications with a single set of credentials. Read...

I've just upgraded a computer to Slackware 15.0. This release includes PAM. I'm having some authentication issue, the first of which is shown below in /var/log/secure: Code: --------- Jan 22...

Linux is an open-source, Unix-like working framework piece at first made by Linus Torvalds in 1991. It fills in as the center part of different Linux appropriations (distros) and is generally utilized...

Published at LXer: An important change has been made in the AppArmor Linux kernel security module . The change involves switching from using the insecure SHA1 algorithm to the more secure SHA256...

Hi all I started getting very slow startup with sddm graph login, using verion sddm-0.20.0-x86_64-4.txz. The issue wasn't happening before. After some checking of sddm.conf and the pam.d files and...

I've just upgraded a computer to Slackware 15.0. This computer has two RAID arrays (3 including a swap array): Code: --------- /dev/md2 swap swap defaults 0 0...

Published at LXer: Banana Pi recently showcased a Mini router designed with the* Triductor TR6560 along with TR5220 Wi-Fi System-on-Chip. Some key features of the Banana Pi BPI-Wi-Fi6 Mini are its...

I've just upgraded one of my machines to Slackware 15.0. I export NFS files from this host. The new NFS package is nfs-utils-2.5.4-x86_64-1. The previous Slackware 14.2 version was...

Published at LXer: Are you working in an industrial sector and looking for open source digital twin platforms? This helpful list can get you started. Read More......

OK, I have overscan (or underscan) such as raspi-config can handle nicely. Except I'm on Debian, not Raspbian and running raspi-config was a disaster that made an SD card unbootable. I have a...

Published at LXer: Explore the latest release of Wayland-Protocols 1.33, featuring crucial updates, and stable protocol transitions that promise a more reliable and optimized user environment. ...

Hello: I am trying to get apt-get update to function, and instead of getting full update I get: Code: --------- brian@cardinal:~$ sudo apt-get update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian...

Anything weird going on? Did the weekly upgrade-all yesterday and noticed this belowattica-5.114.0-x86_64-1.txz:md5sum audiocd-kio-23.08.4-x86_64-1.txz:md5sum bash-5.2.026-x86_64-1.txz:md5sum...