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I have an appointment Monday on Zoom. I found it and logged in. It says a new version is available.I clicked update chose linux mint and I am not clear on what to do, and in what order to do it.... ....

Published at LXer: As expected, Red Hat is ending CentOS Linux 8's support on December 31, 2021. Now what? Read More......

Published at LXer: Ventoy is a free tool that turns any USB key into a multi-boot wonder. Even if you're not a distro-hopping FOSS fundie, having a few bootable USB keys around is handy. You can...

Published at LXer: Back in 2002, if you were a hip PC gamer you were probably playing Grand Theft Auto Vice City on your brand new ATI Radeon R300 graphics card and listening to Avril Lavigne's...

Published at LXer: Red Hat has released CentOS Stream 9, the first major version since the company badly shook its community by announcing it was ending traditional CentOS a year ago. This is the...

Hi, I'm trying to disable submenus for other kernels in grub splash screen. I have added: Code: --------- GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true --------- Tried both =true and ="true" since both forms...

I am helping a friend upgrade his Mint Cinnamon. I'm quite familiar with Linux, but not the Mint distro. When opening Firefox to the Mint home page there was a message that the Mint version (18.1)...

Recently I decided to test some big distros to see what they're doing -- I'm currently developing Porteus distro. I thought they were very mature at this point, but they're so far from being usable by...

Published at LXer: This article shows you some different ways and resources which you can use to create .gitignore files quickly and easily. Read More......

Good evening! I registered to this forum, because I have a problem to solve. I will describe the problem in the Desktop-Forum.

Published at LXer: Kali Linux 2021.4 has just been released by Offensive Security. The latest version brings some significant feature additions and improvements onboard. Here's what's new! Read...

Published at LXer: Debian is having problems with a current version of Firefox that leaves users with a dangerously outdated browser. One of the grey-bearded elders of the Linux distro world,...

I want to add the ability once the screenlock has been unlocked, it will spawn me back into lockscreen so I can guess the combination again ( the list of possible combinations is already there but not...

It's been nearly 2 years since I've been able to listen to anything on my HP Elitebook 8460P laptop over wired headphones or the internal speakers (yes, I know, who uses the internal speakers on a...

Published at LXer: The beta version of the upcoming Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” operating system is now available to download for anyone who wants to give it a try and send feedback to developers. ...

Ubuntu 20.04.3 Dual boot Hi everyone, I have a dual boot Ubuntu/Windows and used to select OS from a text grub menu. After the last Windows update a few days ago I think the boot was...

rsync supports to use hardlinks with the --link-dest option when data is copied locally. That way less files are copied, less disk space is used and the copy operation is faster. I use this feature...

Hi, My first post. A very new convert to Linux from MacOS, so I am used to a simple (yet restricted) interface with my computer. I would like to connect to my Airport Time Capsules, as my other...

why NTP synchronized: no?. how i fix this problem and what is mean that ? timedatectl | grep NTP NTP enabled: yes NTP synchronized: no

Published at LXer: We list top 10 hidden feature of KDE Plasma desktop which would definitely make you more productive and save your precious time. Have a look. Read More......

Using youtube-dl with no options afterwards, I used to get the file with the file name, followed by its extension. But now, with the successor of youtube-dl, called yt-dlp, using it alike, I'm...

Published at LXer: Armbian, a powerful project providing Debian and Ubuntu Linux environments for ARM boards and computers, has recently started offering images for the Raspberry Pi 4 SBC. Read...

Using "gtkam" on a Debian 11 system: "Camera > Add camera > detect" will give me the correct camera and USB, but then clicking on "Apply" or "OK" gives me an error: "Coul not initialize camera." ...

Published at LXer: While X11 remains the foundation for most Linux desktops, its network transparency, or ability to display output across the network, is one of its unsung features. SSH makes it...

I receive mail on a server that uses EXIM as its MTA. The mail isn't put in 1 file in /var/spool/mail but in a file for each message in $HOME/mail/new What MUA will read this mail?

Published at LXer: I'm a huge fan of open source. One of the little ways I've supported the cause is by keeping my personal blog site open from the very beginning. I do this partly to let people...

Hi All , I was trying this for some time and can one one please help , consider variable called release has some value called 1.0.11 , i want to check that variable if it has any leading or...

As the title says, is there a bitwarden plugin for Falkon? Or a way to build it and integrate it with this browser? (slackware64-current) Regards, Apostolos.

So I'm currently in the middle of trying to setup a container that I can use for game streaming, i'd love to setup a Pi in the living room that can remotely stream some games to it from my Nvidia...

Published at LXer: radio-active is Python software to listen to internet radio stations on the terminal. It's free and open source software. Read More......

I have a new PRISM+ monitor that comes with a speaker. I cannot play music on CentOS7 but OK on Rocky 8. Under Settings -> Sound, CentOS7 shows only 1 entry, which is Headphones Built in Audio...

Hello, I have a UEFI PXE BOOT problem with the TFPT protocol installed on a centos 7.7 server. On client, i have a timeout reading 'initrd.img' during the PXE boot with the Rocky 8.5 distribution....

Published at LXer: Interview with Georges Basile Stavracas Neto on OBS Studio Read More......

I just installed ProtonVPN in MInt 20.2, I put in my password... it seems to be going. How do I know it is working and what are the benefits? And can anything go wrong? I could not end up entering my...

Hi, Id really appreciate a bit of hand-holding here! I am struggling to understand the process of installing custom drivers in to the system. I am trying to get a Quectel modem working, and have...

Hi, Recently I have edited the file /etc/fstab and did something stupid. At first it looked like this : /dev/mapper/server--vg-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/mapper/server--vg-home...

Published at LXer: Open source fuels the world’s innovation, yet building impactful, innovative, high-quality, and secure software at scale can be challenging when meeting the growing requirements...

I'm using linuxmint cinnamon 19.1 I've changed my passwords in 2 gmail accounts. The accounts are registered in evolution. Now it cannot connect. In the apps of smartphone and tablet the connection...

Published at LXer: In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install PyCharm IDE Community, Professional or Educational using the third-party repository by phracek/PyCharm or flatpak,...

I have a bash function that allows the user to set options and parameters. Code: --------- heading [OPTIONS] PARAM... --------- I have specified the following options

Published at LXer: The following tutorial will show you how to search for specific text within many files and folders in a GNU/Linux distribution using a single line of command. Read More......

I started making daily backups of my .config/chromium/default folder about a week ago, but then started wondering if I should close the browser before doing that. I'm able to copy the folder without...

I think I have vsFTPd ALMOST right. I want 3 user types: 1) A single Download user only stuck in own directory. 2) A single Super user. 3) Many Upload/download users stuck only in their own...

After using Opera for more than 2 decades (!), this week I was surprised by this new Firefox during a live distro testing. I switched from Windows 7 to Porteus Linux in 2016 and I noticed that all...

Published at LXer: The new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is an exciting successor to the original Pi Zero W, but some makers insist it has a few areas of improvement that need to be addressed. Brian Dorey...

env: RedHat 8.2 mount /dev/sdb /home mount /dev/sdc /home/test the sdb total capacity is 10G,and sdc is also 10G now type the "df -h" /home is 100% but there is only 2.3G in /home when type...

Hi! Everybody I need a step by step tutorial on how to sign NVIDIA and virtualbox drivers into the kernel, please. I know the DKMS package on a package, suppose to make it automatically done for...

Published at LXer: Offensive Security released today Kali Linux 2021.4 as the fourth and last maintenance update to their Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for ethical hacking and penetration...

Published at LXer: Our recently published Open Source Jobs Report examined the demand for open source talent and trends among open source professionals. What did we find? Read More......

Published at LXer: In this article, we are going to learn about important features of Kubernetes which will help you to understand the functional concepts of Kubernetes in deeper level. Read...