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Published at LXer: The latest Wine 9.15 release brings key updates, including MSHTML enhancements and stronger ODBC driver support. Read More......

I'm on old guy who saw computers starting with IBM PC my wife brought home. I'm more comfortable turning wrenches on cars, airplanes, motorcycles and nuclear submarines (yes). I worked for a big...

I was given a Linux machine with the suggestion that I move off of Windows 7 and over to Linux as it will do everything I do on Win7. Sorry this will get long. I want to give the complete problem...

Published at LXer: In the Thunderbird 130 beta release notes the iwhatis newi section lists iadded Linux system tray iconi, and whatis mind-blowing about the addition is that it developers a...

I use KRDC to connect to two windows machines. One uses Windows 10 and the other uses Windows 11, "W11". Just in the last two days, when I try to use KRDC to connect to the W11 machine, I get a black...

Hi! Is it possible to find the full path of a process after pivot_root? For example the command: Code: --------- readlink -f /proc//exe --------- returns Code: ---------...

Published at LXer: While Open Source Initiative continues its work developing an open-source AI definition, LF has taken AI-based Open Model Initiative under its wings. Read More......

Published at LXer: Canonical has finally given up and changed its policy for kernel version selection on Ubuntu releases, finally delivering the latest and greatest Linux kernel series starting...

Hello. I am on a UEFI system and I have a 4TB external hard drive. I have already gone through the work of formatting it and giving it the GPT label. However, it says it has only 2TB of space. Here is...

A bit of a warning, I just ran across this today. For people who use Patreon to Support Slackware Development and use IOS to pay. Apple will start taking 30%, not sure if that is grandfathered in...

Published at LXer: Building off yesterday's release of Wine 9.15, Wine-Staging 9.15 is now available with 376 patches currently being applied atop the upstream codebase. Read More......

Throws Unknown control member! at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Alien/Package/Deb.pm line 182. Gotta say Slackware has sucked for me recently (after over 10 years). What's going on? Did I mess up?...

Hi, I recently became aware that Xfce team are almost done with their first release supporting Wayland. Now I am curious to experiment the development version 4.19. Since I am using Fedora my...

Cause it complains about_: Error parsing option jack-port (option not found) If it's removed: Don't remove jack support, man... especially not for crap like pipelight or pulse.

Published at LXer: Need Docker Desktop on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS? Our straightforward guide shows you how to install it quickly and without hassle. Read More......

Hi, I have a 150GB file and I am using Ubuntu 22.04. What commands should I use to transfer this to my new server? I saw commands like git clone, but I encountered issues when trying to use them

I am reasonably experienced with linux, I was a systems admin for more years than I can remember before I retired. I have come across something on my system that is more of a nuisance than a real...

We are running docker in an 'Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 LTS' and want to limit internet access as much as possible. The only things that should be opened is for patching Linux and managing docker...

Published at LXer: Seems like this project is coming along nicely, and I do very much love seeing classics get revived with open source game engine re-implementations. OpenTESArena for The Elder...

I need to copy your homework. Please tell me what distro you use and how frustrating it was to set up traffic routing between two interfaces.

Hello, I'm a fans of minimalist system. Is minimal installation media (iso) under 500 MB available ? Or rootfs archive I can extract and configure it later ? Thanks.

I have a system that I want to turn into a dedicated firewall. First I tried BSD but it's garbage. Now I'm leaning towards Gentoo. I'm looking for people who have a similar setup who can confirm...

Published at LXer: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users experiencing issues setting up Fastmail and mailbox.org providers in GNOME Online Accounts to access cloud files, calendars, and/or contacts will be...

The problem intermittently affects vim running in an xterm; gvim always displays normally. The display on opening a file is normal but changes often do not show up properly. All kinds of odd things...

Published at LXer: A detailed review of the System76's COSMIC Desktop maiden Alpha release, which brings a brand new desktop environment in the Linux ecosystem. Read More......

I have suricata daemon running, it stores logs in the /var/log/suricata/ I want to limit the size of directory /var/log/suricata/ to some MB, such that total memory is not consumed. How can we...

Published at LXer: The GNOME Project released today GNOME 46.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 46 iKathmandui desktop environment series bringing various improvements, bug...

Published at LXer: NVIDIA software engineer Andrea Righi has implemented his "scx_rustland" Linux Rust scheduler within eBPF for very promising performance results. Read More......

I've seen mention of ignore lists in this forum, where you ignore all posts from people you don't like for whatever reason. Are they an actual mechanism, or just a figure of speech? If they...

hi, i'm using a wifi usb dongle on mx linux 23(Linux mx 6.1.0-23-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.99-1 (2024-07-15) x86_64 GNU/Linu) lsusb: Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0bda:c811 Realtek...

Published at LXer: Incus 6.4 rolls out with bug fixes, better cluster management, storage solutions, OCI support, and more. Read More......

I just tried building the latest Firefox and got this error: Code: --------- 1:11.89 ./ServoStyleConsts.h.stub 1:12.14 ./mp4parse_ffi_generated.h.stub 1:12.27 thread 'main' panicked at...

I'm working on my scripts to set up a computer. They actually tested pretty good before, BUT, not in the case that the computer was an Office computer (the computer at my Mom's). Right now, that...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial we will explain how to install Nextcloud on Debian 12 OS. Nextcloud is an open-source client-server software with similar functionality as Dropbox, Google Drive...

Hello, Lately, I've noticed that it takes over 2 minutes to boot up, after I've entered my password. Before that, normal speed. While waiting, there is a black screen, which only shows my cursor,...

Hi, hand slipped while clicking on a directory icon in the Debian Applications files folder. Said directory icon promptly disappeared! After rude words checked the trash folder and it's not there.....

Published at LXer: A JavaScript engine is software that translates source code into machine code. This machine code is executed on a computeris central processing unit. Read More......

Published at LXer: Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerades as a library from the Solana blockchain platform...

I have a samba file server on my local area network. It sits in a closet and doesn't get updated very often. But for some reason, I decided my file server needed the latest from Devuan, Daedalus,...

Published at LXer: Solder Partyis RP2350 Stamp is an update to the companyis tiny RP2040 Stamp module based on a Raspberry Pi RP2350A, and they also introduced the RP2350 Stamp XL module that makes...

Even though I imported the security@slackware.com PGP key into Thunderbird, and indicated that I accept it, Thunderbird does not like the signatures on the slackware-security messages. It says:...

Published at LXer: Motherboard vendors have begun releasing updated BIOS versions for Intel Core 13th/14th Gen motherboards that offer the new "0x129" CPU microcode that is intended to address the...

hello, I have tried the factors with a comprehensible calculation method without "factor..." to calculate, the loop still works with 55 = 5 11 but at 120 = 30 4. i have lost track, can someone help...

Published at LXer: Previously known as Project Terra, Radical Fish Games who made the excellent CrossCode have now properly revealed their name game with Alabaster Dawn. From what their presskit...

I just spent a long time (probably an hour) carefully writing and editing a relatively long message to post in the "software" portion of this forum. Then, when I tried to post the message with...

Published at LXer: To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 27 high quality free Linux PHP Web Content Management Systems. Hopefully, there...

Published at LXer: The latest HandBrake free video transcoder update, 1.8.2, fixes scan issues and enhances encoding on Windows and Linux. Read More......

Hello, This is a very desperate call for help. I have been trying to fix this issue for past 1 month. The 'AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor' microphone device is unable to pick drivers. I...

Published at LXer: WIZnet has revealed two new microcontroller evaluation boards, the W5500-EVB-Pico2 and W5100S-EVB-Pico2. These boards are based on the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller and are...

A while ago I created a search API interface to query the content of slackware.uk (which is directly used by the search functionality on the site), and intended to make it publicly available for...