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Published at LXer: GCompris 2.0 open-source educational software suite providing entertainment tools for children aged 2 to 10 is now available for download with new and improved activities. ...

I have been testing out images for the Quartz64 Model A. I realize that this board is a work in progress and not everything is fully supported upstream. I am just starting this thread to document my...

I have several concurrent tmux 3.1c sessions running within the same account: Code: --------- $ tmux ls two: 2 windows (created Wed Dec 15 05:50:39 2021) (attached) one: 4 windows (created...

Hi, Please amend if i am wrong. When we use kill command,kill will use system call int kill(pid_t pid, int sig). kill will not uses unix socket,shared memory,array mutex. Kernel will receive...

geeqie on current with KDE wayland failed to start. Execute from terminal segmentation fault. Code: --------- $ gdb /usr/bin/geeqie core GNU gdb (GDB) 11.1 Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software...

Published at LXer: Postfix is a free and widely used open-source mail transfer agent. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite as the database server to store and manage the virtual...

Bryan Lunduke went through the document which the Linux Foundation has tried to pass off as a financial report and noticed that the Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux...

Hello, Can you please remove attica-0.4.2-aarch64-2.txz (http://slackware.uk/slarm64/slarm64-current/slarm64/l/attica-0.4.2-aarch64-2.txz) as it conflicts with the other one...

Published at LXer: Back in the early days of personal computers, I wrote the IBM training course for the original IBM PC. To complete the course in time for the IBM, ComputerLand, and Sears...

Hi. I set my screensaver and preview it in the Screensaver settings - it works fine. When I bootup again, the screensaver shows as blank (set to show after 7 minutes). My old screensaver is still...

What software can be used to censor certain expressions in audio stream such as known brand names or 5 seconds after each 'sponsored by'? I am not even looking for some fancy solution which removes...

Published at LXer: Valve released today a new Steam Client update for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, to address a few annoyances and improve VA-API hardware decoding on Linux. ...

Code: --------- $ sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date :: Starting full system...

Hi Trying to create a NTFS partition, using GParted Unable to unmount the existing Ubuntu partition Keep getting: target is busy thanks Michael

Published at LXer: PDF Mix Tool is a small utility that allows you to perform common editing operations on PDF files. It’s a Qt-based tool that’s written in C++. Read More......

At the moment all of my partitions except for /boot are on a thin provisioned LVM. Is it safe to run fstrim on bedrock? Thank you.

Published at LXer: Finding files and directories in Linux is a very difficult task compared to Windows operating system. Especially if you are working on the server operating system without a...

when twitter asks for a phone number on an account set up with an email address (still valid) why would twitter always ask for a phone number? how do i tell twitter that i don't have a phone?

My experiences is cable is more reliable, but AT&T is offering 300Mbps for a little less than Comcast's 100Mbps.

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My main goal is to install kodachi os on an external hard drive but I have a few questions I can't find anywhere else. I would like to do this using Ubuntu. I know how to install kodachi onto a...

Published at LXer: Learn how to list local users on Ubuntu and how to list logged on users. Read More... (https://buildvirtual.net/how-to-list-users-in-ubuntu-linux/)

Hello, Unfortunately for me, my RAID-6 array has several mis-matches due to my HDD cable coming loose. I need to determine the affected area, then use debugfs to fine the affected files. I know how...

I am using the following in a script stuff=`dnf history|awk 'NR==3'|cut -d\| -f1|sed -r 's/\s+//g'` which simply produces a parameter which looks like a number (eg. 580) I want to use the...

Published at LXer: As someone who has spent their entire career in open source software (OSS), the Log4Shell scramble (an industry-wide four-alarm-fire to address a serious vulnerability in the...

Published at LXer: Calibre creator and maintainer Kovid Goyal released today a new version of his popular open-source, cross-platform, and free ebook management software, Calibre 5.34, which adds...

Published at LXer: Blueberry is a new Python scripts that sets your currently playing Spotify song title and album cover as your GNOME desktop wallpaper. To use it, you need Spotify Premium. ...

I run slackware64-current on my desktop, switching from official 14.2-64 about a year ago. Prior to that I had always run the newest official 64bit release and upgraded whenever a new one...

From my RazPi 4B Code: --------- bash-5.1# /usr/bin/vlc VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2) [000000002ab14c50] main libvlc error: stale plugins cache: modified...

previous discussion Raspberry Pi 4 (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-arm-108/raspberry-pi-4-bcm2711-aarch64-4175675454/), Raspberry Pi 3...

Published at LXer: It doesn't rain, but it pours. Previously, one assumption about the 10 out of 10 Log4j security vulnerability was that it was limited to exposed vulnerable servers. We were...

Published at LXer: Odoo (formerly known as OpenERP) is a suite of open-source business applications. The most used modules for Odoo include Point of Sale (POS), Inventory, CRM, Website, Live Chat,...

I have a fully updated full slackware 64 bit current install and am trying to test out slapt-get. I have it installed and pointing to the current repository. When typing slapt-get --update for the...

Published at LXer: Debugging Python code, for many of us, comes down to adding print statements and trying to reason what’s going on based on the output. It’s not ideal, but for some reason, people...

I went to check the Changelog as is my custom and there is a change made to the oh so hard to edit website. Gonna sniff around and see what other pages are changed. ...

I suppose I technically have a dual boot system. A/Windows on an SSD, and B/ Linux Mint is on an NVMe drive. As the title suggests, I just bought a new 1TB WD Portable Hard Drive to store my...

I got a brand new PSU and it's working great so far. However I noticed that after an hour of use it started making a weird noise, very similar to a mechanical HDD that's working except louder....

Hi all, I recently began to randomly experiment a complete black screen when tying to resume from a suspended state on my PC. I'm pretty sure this behavior started after a fairly big upgrade....

Hello, I've just totally emptied my T460's batteries (forgot to plug-in the power supply). Powering the T460 on now does not work, only 2 second light blink, nothing more. I've tried to...

Hi. I'm running Debian 11. I used auto partitioning with full encryption (LUKS). What would be an ideal fstab for a *Samsung 850 EVO 2TB 2.5in SATA SSD*? ----- My current fstab:

Published at LXer: Over the past couple of years, interest in Linux on the desktop has slowly increased. While running any Linux distribution on a personal computer is still uncommon, an increasing...

Hi all! I try to install Linux (Ubuntu) on an HP Pavillion, everything goes ok until it's time to partition the harddisks then i must give the address to the disk and a password?? there is iscsi...

Published at LXer: For the upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 release, the Yaru developers are removing the aubergine (eggplant) color from the default Ubuntu theme, replacing it with orange, since libadwaita...

If I try to check /dev/sda5 (China) I get /dev/sda5 is in use. If I try to mount /dev/sda5 I get Error mounting /dev/sda5 at /media/jamescw/China: /dev/sda5 already mounted or mount point busy. If I...

Manjaro KDE. How it happened: -sluggish -------------- I was doing opening browsing firefox (as normal, many tabs) and looking for files in 6TB hdd via dolphin... and some how the computer...

Hi, Since Slackware 15 is in RCx stage, I'm always in fear of the arrival of the release. Basic utilities like gv and geeqie are so buggy that gv crashes every a few minutes, and geeqie never...

Hi there again XD, after of making test with "chroot" for access directly from Slackware64 14.2 to Slackware32 14.2 (is real installation on another partition), like i post on "Here...

I am looking at this router: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08JHL47BD/?coliid=I14WKKI3BUHTMD&colid=34AUMXNBSOC1I&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1 It is a "Firewall, Mikrotik, Pfsense, OPNsense, VPN, Network...

Published at LXer: A wide range of open source topics essential for OSPO related activities occurred in 2021, featured by OS experts coming from matured OSPOs like Bloomberg or RIT and communities...

I'm trying to cross compile twinkle soft-phone with yocto BSP for Rpi4 board. but getting make error, while configure is getting succeeded. here I'm giving these dependencies to twinkle: ...