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Published at LXer: Announced a few months ago, System76’s brand-new COSMIC desktop environment for the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution is now ready for public testing. Read More......

Published at LXer: This guide will walk you through a step-by-step procedure of how to install the Manjaro 21.0 Linux distribution. As you might know, Manjaro is available for download in 3...

Published at LXer: GNOME Desktop: This article explains how to automatically disable the laptop touchpad when an external mouse is plugged in and how to disable the touchpad while typing. Read...

I usually need to transfer some large files downloaded from cloud storage from my Huawei mate 10 pro (https://consumer.huawei.com/uk/support/phones/mate10-pro/) smartphone to a Thinkpad laptop. But...

Published at LXer: Get your hands-on with the Cosmic Desktop (Pop OS 21.04) from the Pop OS team as part of the beta copy. Here's a recap of the feature highlights and beta download details. ...

Published at LXer: Pacman version 6 is shipped with parallel downloads support. Here is how to enable parallel downloading in Pacman in Arch Linux Read More......

Published at LXer: Shasheen Ediriweera released today Rescuezilla 2.2 as the latest version of this Ubuntu-based distribution known as the Swiss army knife of system rescue and recovery. Read...

I used to use KolourPaint's eyedropper and foreground/background square in the lower-left to get RGB values of whatever I eye-droppered from the image. Now, doing that just brings up a "Select Color"...

Gparted Live 1.2.0.1 Macbook mid 2006 Linuxmint 20.1 Cinnamon 64bit. Ran Gparted from external optical drive. Gparted booted but stopped stopped giving notice about firmware. I am now have the...

Published at LXer: With containers, we don't always care about data being retained after a crash. See how volatile overlay mounts can help increase performance in these situations. Read More......

Published at LXer: Jason Perlow, Director of Project Insights and Editorial Content at the Linux Foundation, spoke with Daniel Scales about the importance of protecting trademarks in open source...

What's a good sound recorder app, that I can record and then save the file? Ubuntu 20.04 lts user

Published at LXer: NixOS, a Linux distribution with a focus on reproducibility, has been updated to version 21.05, a major release that introduces new technologies, new features, and numerous...

I'm running AIX 7.2. Sometimes, only on certain machines, I'll have a "hung" ssh session. The user has logged out and has no processes running, but there is an SSH session with that user still...

hello all I'm using linux mint 20. I want a usb imager to create a bootable linux usb with persistence storage. Does mint have this kind of program? thanks

Published at LXer: bat is a simple command line tool for easily setting and checking the ASUS battery charging stop threshold, in order to help extend battery life. Read More......

Hello. it's more of a challenge,to be able to emulate the raspberry pi 3 on my Jetson nano (aarch64) using virt-install. I'm learning how to do that by reading heavily here : ...

New Ubuntu install, and the network is really slow. Sometimes websites load fine, and not too slowly... but usually they don't, especially on first load. Thought it might be something related to...

Published at LXer: We know that live patching has real benefits because it significantly reduces the downtime associated with frequent patching. But live patching is relatively difficult to achieve...

Published at LXer: For years, the GCC and the FSF were connected at the hip, but after Richard M. Stallman[he]#039[/he]s return to the FSF board, the GCC steering committee had enough. Read...

Published at LXer: *New tool will enable those registered for a certification exam to experience the test environment before sitting for their exam *SAN FRANCISCO, June 2, 2021 – The Linux...

Published at LXer: Linkerd developer points to hidden overhead costs in Istio, suggesting that the most popular service mesh isn't right for everyone. Read More......

Published at LXer: Docker is a tool that is used to run software in a container. It's a great way for developers and users to worry less about compatibility with an operating system and...

I would like to use ssh keys to log in. I have used the key gen function provided by Openssh my issue is saving the public key to the remote machine. ...

Recently I had a problem with "startkde" and "ksmserver" after I had logged into LXDE and then logged into KDE. I am using Testing ("bullseye"). When I remove LXDE from my system, it worked as...

Hardware is a stock HP T5740 for both builds Build 1 is running Ubuntu Server 16.04.6 (i386) Build 2 is running Porteus Kiosk 3.7.0 (i586) The main issue is on any default build, running xrandr...

Published at LXer: By default, SSH already uses a secure data communication between remote machines, but if you want to add some extra security layer to your SSH connections, you can add a Google...

Apologies if this isn't the right forum for this. The YouTube user NCommander will be making a livestream where he'll install Slackware 1.1 (from 1993) by using 54 floppy disks. ---Quote---...

Published at LXer: In my introductory article about chaos engineering, one of the main things I covered was the importance of getting the steady state of your working Kubernetes cluster. Before you...

Published at LXer: New visuals, simplified menus, though Mozilla has yet to fully state its position on 'privacy preserving ads'Mozilla has released Firefox 89, proclaiming it a "fresh new...

Published at LXer: This series looks at emulating home computers. This article looks at emulating the Amstrad CPC range. Read More......

how diffrente networking.service networkmanager.service in systemctl

I am looking to configure a sendmail for portage so it will notify me about whats going on. I installed mail-mta/opensmtpd package and followed these instrucions:...

Published at LXer: Lynis is an open-source and much powerful auditing tool for Unix/Linux-like operating systems. It scans the system for security information, general system information, installed...

Hi I've been using the Fsarchiver qt version for some time with success. Recently a backup I made would only reinstall by about 25% then there were errors. I tried on other drives with same...

Hello, I'm looking for modern web browser with vim-like keybindings for keyboard-driven workflow. Unfortunately, qutebrowser doesn't perform very well on some websites (github, for example). I also...

Published at LXer: Drupal is a free, scalable, and open platform used to create and manage website content. In this guide, we will show you how to deploy multiple Drupal instances with Nginx on...

Published at LXer: The latest stable version of openSUSE Linux distribution - openSUSE Leap 15.3 is now available. In this post, we round up the release with changes and download details. Read...

Published at LXer: There are a few commands that should always be in your sysadmin toolbox. Get to know these 7 essential networking commands. Read More......

I want to make a grub2 bootable in the usb. Should I mount my usb drive to */media* or */mnt* ?

Published at LXer: This brief guide explains how to fix if vagrant up hangs when mounting NFS shared folders in Linux operating system. Read More......

Just making my inaugural post. I'm a longntime lurker and reader, but finally found a reason to create an account and bump around until I could managed to accmoplish the thing I really needed to. :)

hello My centos 6 server crashed while cleaning old backups. 47 websites run on this. The server is currently only accessible from the console. My question is: can I download the backups made with...

Published at LXer: Simplifying AGL's existing Wayland-based graphical stack and avoiding the use of modules that aren't maintained upstream has lead to the creation of a new compositor based on...

I have a Canon Pixma MX922 that will not print from Linux Mint 18.3. I get an error message rendering completed and it disables the printer. When I select the printer I also that there is a...

Published at LXer: The Blender Foundation released today the Blender 2.93 LTS open-source, cross-platform and free 3D modeling software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms. Read More......

When you install linux, install 2 of them/dual boot. That way you can gParted in one and resize the other partition(s) or move configs from one to the other with zero hassle. ......zzzzzz Just sayin

I am using Backintime backup tool to backup my /home and /root folders.Everything works fine except that each and every day one of the multiple backups displays as "with errors!" I think this is a...

I am a researcher and have a leased virtual Ubuntu server (from a university unit), and I have sudo admin privileges/responsibilities. Access is authenticated through a quite secure (seems, to me;...

Published at LXer: It's not me, it's GNUThe GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) Steering Committee has lifted a long-standing requirement that all code contributions must be assigned to the FSF (Free...