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Published at LXer: Your technical skills might be superb, but do you have equally compelling soft skills? Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/5-self-improvement-soft-skills)

On a base Gentoo system I have installed Bedrock and have started the tutorial. brl list shows: bedrock gentoo tut-alpine tut-void Following the tutorial I have run:

Published at LXer: It is no secret that email is the preferred method of communication for businesses - a trend that has only been magnified with the increase in remote workers brought on by the...

Hi all! I have installed Slackware64 14.1 both on a Virtual box VM (to make tests) and on my old computer (to make a server). I'm facing the exact same issue on both machines: if I create a user...

Published at LXer: NVIDIA released today the NVIDIA 470.57.02 graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris platforms, a feature and bugfix release of their production branch. Read More......

Well, my first post is just to say hello. I tried several distros and always back to debian. Now I'm using MX-Ĺinux at home and even work. I'm a normal user and I hope I can help.

I want to make a backup of kodi once a week, let's say Tuesday @ 12:10pm here is what I have so far Code: --------- 10 12 * * 2 tar -czf kodi-bakup.tar.gz ~/.kodi /home/odroid/kodibackup...

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Hello. I just started using Linux and chose to use KDE neon. I noticed one problem. When I use keyboard shortcuts to navigate and select text, they don't work that well. One easy example is using...

Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to use the tee command on Linux for various purposes. Read More... (https://www.2daygeek.com/linux-tee-command-examples/)

Published at LXer: The forty-second installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 18th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the...

Question for all Linux admins / Linux security guys out there – Would you use a Linux security product that has it own kernel module? Or do you consider products that use a kernel module as a big...

Published at LXer: The GNOME Project announced today the release of GNOME 40.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest and greatest GNOME 40 desktop environment series. Read More......

Hai This is Sumeesh, I hope you all doing great.

Published at LXer: Torvalds: 'At some point somebody just needs to actually submit it'The latest release candidate of the 5.14 Linux kernel is a hefty beast, Linus Torvald remarked yesterday,...

Follow these steps to install additional Canon drivers or software for your printer/scanner. 1. Go to IJ Start Canon (https://ijstartcanonx.com/) Support. 2. Enter your Canon model box. When...

Published at LXer: HandBrake 1.4 has been released over the weekend as a “significant feature release” for this open-source and free video transcoder software for Linux, macOS, and Windows...

Hello all, I am kinda stuck with an usual issue (or is it usual?). Let me explain. I have two Debian VPS boxes. The first one is a pure VPN (OpenVpn) and the second one is my regular server...

My home broadband router has a dns service capability. My question is, do I need to enable this for resolving IP addresses on my home network?

The subject line pretty much sums it up. I have numerous atrings similar to the above that I am trying to convert to a list like: Code: --------- [ 'arg1=some_value', 'arg2=a text string' ]...

Published at LXer: If you use Python, you probably install a lot of Python applications. Some are tools you just want to try out. Others are tried and true applications you use every day, so you...

Published at LXer: In the following tutorial, you will learn how to easily install the Microsoft Edge beta that is close to full stable release. A stable launch is not too far away in the future,...

Hi Have done terminal commands as below for Snapd, https://snapcraft.io/install/snap-store/mint sudo apt update sudo apt install snapd Shows in the Software manager, but I cannot find ? I...

Published at LXer: Google Docs Editors is a freeware web-based productivity office suite within Google Drive service. What are the best open source alternatives? Read More......

The 'Videos' drive on my Linux Mint media server has been doing wonky things for a while now, and now it has become read-only, so I booted into recovery mode and ran gparted. I'm getting lots of...

They are the same file, which one do I configure to make the changes stick? Code: --------- root@odroid:/etc/sysctl.d# cat 99-sysctl.conf # # /etc/sysctl.conf - Configuration file for setting...

Published at LXer: There are many ways to get applications onto a Linux system. Some, like Flatpak and containers, are new. Others, like DEB and RPM, are classic formats that have withstood the...

Code: Code: --------- #include using namespace std; class MyClass { public:

kernel-5.13.3 ---Quote--- inxi -Fa System: Host: betelgeuse.dom.org *Kernel: 5.13.3*-betelgeuse x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 2.36.1-slack15 parameters:...

Published at LXer: Today, almost every family has a desktop computer or laptop. That’s because the computer has become a very important requirement. Moreover, many people have to create documents...

why isn't there a program that will install tarballs automatically like the snap store or a .deb or a .exe

Published at LXer: Kali Linux is mainly used for advanced penetration testing and security auditing. This step by step tutorial will show you and guide you through all the steps on how to install...

I need a simple count down timer..... I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 lts

How do we extract/get jp(e)g or png file format out of mp4 one using some CLI tools ?

Published at LXer: Rocket chat can be used as an alternative to different communication channels such as slack, mattermost etc. Rocket chat comes with different features such as group chats, video...

What would be a good way to find out if filenames in Source_dirX are present in Destination_dirY, accounting for subdirectories? and options to list or delete the files from the source?

Hi there, Got a bit of a question here, got the following working that blocks any domain with the given string: Code: --------- iptables -I INPUT -m string --string thedomain.to.block.om...

Hello, Dave here from Alaska. Have almost no experience with Linux but have been threatening to give it a try and after staring at a win 10 blue screen all morning, this may be the right time for a...

Hello, It will make things much simpler if I can include playbook(.yml) if the condition is met... but ansible does not read variable in main.yml Code: --------- ]$ cat main.yml

Published at LXer: Contrary to what some may have feared, the exec's departure wasn't a sign that IBM was trying to make Red Hat more like IBM, reneging on its earlier promise. Read More......

So let me apologize in advance if this question is in the wrong place or there is a fix for it. I am at work and short on time so I wanted to post this before I got too snowed under. I have a...

I have a USB stick that is also a voice recorder. I've used it quite a few times. Until now, I've accessed the audio files through Windows XP on an old machine (so old you can't put Linux on it or...

Published at LXer: Syncthing is an open-source tool used for synchronizing files between two or more computers on a network using a peer-to-peer architecture. In this guide, we will show you how to...

Hello, I have set some aliases in my "$HOME/.profile": Code: --------- alias -x nv="nvim" alias -x tmd="transmission-daemon" alias -x tmr="transmission-remote"

Colleagues, Consider adding "activity" indicators to the LQ Home page. These might include a counter of NEW/ANSWERED POSTS in the current week regardless of which forum. Other indicators might...

It caught my that Live Edition mounts root / on overlay file system. I read a little about it. Now I am having idea to use such solution in hardware installation. I think it can be particularly useful...

Hi guys, What happened to this :D this is the most essential thing that always worked in Slackware. 1. I installed a fresh new Slack current from this iso -...

I'm trying to set up Nftables to allow max 10 new connections per second to ports 80, 443 from any one client IP-address. My environment: Distro: Debian 10 Linux kernel: 4.19.0-16-amd64...

Turning age 78 in 2021, I decided to learn Linux. I took my old 2008 Acer Aspire 6920 laptop & had someone factory reset it. With my HP Envy dv7 Windows 10 laptop (& U-Tube help) I made a bootable...

Hi, Though through prime I have selected gpu mode to "performance" but still in Steam's system information section and "About" section of system settings the GPU shows as the "Intel..." So please...