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Need to encrypt a thumbdrive, and looking in google search, I see several results for "flash drive" encryption, which I ASSUME could mean thumbdrives and not just SSD's. But the posts date from...

After system-upgrade (34 to rawhide) the fedora start ok, but it is the problem: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/dnf", line 57, in from dnf.cli import main ...

Published at LXer: In this Linux guide you will learn how to install Starcraft 2 on Ubuntu Linux. The Starcraft 2 game has been released free of charge for anyone with registered Battle.net...

Fresh install of CentOS7.. plain-jane Gnome it came with. Had to stay with 7 for compatibility reasons. When going into Settings/Displays, I get: Could not get screen information. any idea...

startx outputs this: Code: --------- xf86Enable IOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted) --------- I tried this: 1. Code:

Published at LXer: The ‘dmesg‘ command displays the messages from the kernel ring buffer. A system passes multiple runlevel from where we can get lot of information like system architecture, cpu,...

In a nutshell: *When it comes to the FOSS / FOSH friendliness, should one prefer Intel over AMD, or vice versa? Which is the way to go considering the degrees of freedom in hardware?* Sorry for the...

This has been showing up in dmesg Code: --------- 0.000662] gran_size: 64K chunk_size: 8M num_reg: 10 lose cover RAM: 230M [ 0.000663] gran_size: 64K chunk_size: 16M num_reg: 10 ...

Published at LXer: Even if you haven't used DOS before, you are probably aware of its command-line shell, named simply*COMMAND.COM. The*COMMAND.COM*shell has become synonymous with DOS, and so it's...

What crypto wallets have people dabbled with or use? I've been looking at Ledger Nano S https://shop.ledger.com/?r=b21b SafePal S1 https://www.safepal.io/ CoolWallet S...

I'm trying to connect to wifi using wpa_supplicant and it's failed $:wpa_supplicant -B -i wlp0s20f3 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-wlp0s20f3.conf Successful initialized wpa_supplicant...

Hello In the Deepin desktop of Manjaro (latest versions in one and the other) the Alt+Tab keys to switch between application windows do not work for me. Thanks in advance.

Running MSI GT80 Titan SLI, with dual Nvidia 980m. Plain Jane CentOS 7 installed, patched. with Gnome. Two monitors are Dell U3014, both. I run this config: CPU -> mini-DP to DP on primary...

Published at LXer: Moving away from Google Drive is fairly straightforward as there are many options to choose from. However, for a true alternative, we want a solution that also includes the...

The Slackware64 file tree contains two identical copies of initrd.img. It also has two identical kernels, albeit with different names: Code: --------- $ ls -l $(find -name initrd.img)...

Published at LXer: In our earlier guide, we walked you through the installation of AlmaLinux 8.4. If you have CentOS 8 installed, an automated migration script is available to help you migrate...

Hi, I am a linux noob :( I have a CentOS 7 distribution with XFCE installed, I have somehow managed to set it up so that I can connect via remote desktop from windows. I can copy files from...

I have a system built loosely on LFS linux. I am currently running XFCE 4.12 desktop. Everything works as expected, unless I suspend the computer. After I resume from suspend mode, I am no longer...

hi, I have Samba share setup and a recycle configured as well. (on debian) Now someone deleted a bunch of folders from the share and when I check the recycle, all I can find is the folders but...

Published at LXer: The date command is a command-line utility for displaying or setting date and time in the Linux system. It uses the system default time zone to display the time. In this article,...

Hello, I'm using kernel 5.4.0 and running it on ARM64 CPU. I am trying to optimize writing to an NVMe disk by opening a file with the O_DIRECT flag. The source buffer is allocated within a kernel...

Published at LXer: Axiomtek’s rugged, robotics focused “AIE900A-NX” edge AI system runs Ubuntu on a Jetson Xavier NX and supplies 4x PoE ports plus GbE, HDMI, MIPI-CSI, DIO, serial, CAN, 2x USB 3.1...

https://imgur.com/YzxAtk4 shows a few local houses in GE street view. I have the kosher Slackware package, GE-pro-7.3.0.3832. I'm not proud of Irish building standards, but we build them better...

I have installed ubuntu in dual boot with windows 10 in UEFI mode. Can't boot to ubuntu. The error message "System Bootorder Not Found" flashes and then Windows 10 boots up. I tried some solutions...

Normally I would just rysnc the data around, but i have a bunch of files from school that are on my laptop and my workstation. I'd like to merge the files, many with the same name, but not the same...

Published at LXer: Collabora shared today with 9to5Linux their latest work on the experimental Wayland driver for Wine, which now supports Vulkan to further improve support for Windows games and...

Hello, when I do visudo /etc/fstab, I get this: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with...

https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/08/operation_ironside_anom/ Bahaha ... priceless!

Published at LXer: Load balancing and clustering are very important in a production environment to achieve high availability for your database system. In this post, we will show how to set up a...

Hi all I'm running slackware64 current. Until now I had my network configured statically in rc.inet1.conf and I have some SMB filesystems in my fstab, that was mounting automatically on boot, and...

Published at LXer: The newest Firefox for iOS represents what we think online life should be: fast, beautiful and private – presented in a package that looks and feels intuitive and natural. The...

Hello Gparted quited while was resizing a large HDD. Can you guys figure out from the *smartctl -a sdX* output what is going on and best way for a beginner to intermediate Linux user to recover the...

Published at LXer: This article describes what is Virt-manager and how to manage KVM virtual machines with Virt-manager in Linux. Read More......

Hello everybody! Been always interested in the gratis side of Linux (didn't know the libre thing back then) but only recently I finally plucked up the gut to immerse myself to the world of Linux....

Published at LXer: Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Certified Content Collection for ServiceNow are crucial tools that help sysadmins manage service actions and inventory sources,...

Published at LXer: Intelligent Agent’s $149 “Recore A5” 3D printer board runs Linux on an Allwinner A64, using the SoC’s AR100 core for real-time control. The SBC provides 6x stepper motor drivers,...

Published at LXer: Fedora Project’s leader Matthew Miller announced today on Twitter that the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 laptop from Lenovo now comes with Fedora Linux pre-installed. Read More......

I'm looking for an open 'explanatory dictionary' in text format parsable by scripts. I've found the Wordnet lexical database. It's available under a BSD-style license, particularly in the 'goldendict...

I am having trouble getting my HP3830 printer working on Ubuntu 20.04 because apparently it is not compatible. So I am trying to make it compatible. I don't know if this is possible. Question...Can...

Hello I forgot to mention in one of the recent updates, that the pkgtools upgrade will yield a 20% (and in some cases significantly more) performance improvement when upgrading packages. It was...

So, I've successfully installed Bullseye and Xorg seems to work as well. But the problem is that dwm requires GLIBC 2.33 and there is only 2.31-12 version in the repositories. So, I decided to...

Hello, I have a XORO MegaPad 1564 V2 (link: https://www.xoro.de/produkte/details/xoro-megapad-1564-v2/) and I want on this to run Linux, most of the tutorials failed. I have found a German website...

I recently installed the newest version of Linux Mint Cinnamon and every time I boot I get a message like this: Cinnamon has crashed. You are currently running in fallback mode. My display is a little...

Rhel 7.9 server I have an issue with a crt. It comes from godaddy. When I replace the existing, expired cert(which I've done before), I receive this error. Mon Jun 07 10:43:18.476221 2021]...

As the title states we have a pickle of a problem, I run pihole on my odroid-c2 which is running Ubuntu 16.04. There is no way that I can update it to a newer version so I am stuck with having to deal...

I was trying to download Discord (public testing beta), and it returned error code 0.0000. I have Debian 10.7 on a developer mode Chromebook. Is the code good or bad?

hello I have a computer with a 250gb HDD (Win7) and a 1TB (slackware current). I had LILO installed on the slack drive itself and it all worked fine. I would just press F8 to bring up the boot...

I'm running Debian stable with kernel 5.9.0-0.bpo.5-rt-amd64 My GPU is RX 5500 XT I've simply installed xorg package and typed startx. Here is my Xorg.0.log https://pastebin.com/C5E0qy3s

Published at LXer: OBS Studio 27 has been released with native support for Wayland, new PipeWire capture source, browser docks on macOS and Linux, and more. Read More......

I have two hard drives in my machine, one boots Windows 10 and one boots Arch Linux. I have a new(ish) Wifi network card plugged into the back of my machine since moving to a new flat. The Windows...