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Published at LXer: If you are planning to upgrade to taste the top new features of Fedora 34, then you are at the right place. Presenting the steps to upgrade to Fedora 34 from Fedora 33...

Why does Facebook say no internet connection when trying to send a chat message However, if i switch to Google Chrome, it works fine ?

This is an older laptop that never lost inet connection (via Linksys WRT54GL) until switching from Windows to Mint (19.3_32 bit). On Mint, & set to use DHCP, it started losing connection about the...

Title says it all. There is this very ordinary file sitting there, just minding its own business. Then some application reads it, and possibly does something with it or maybe not. Maybe just a...

Published at LXer: Running commands or processes in the background on a Linux system becomes a common task if you need to free up your terminal or disconnect from an SSH session. This is especially...

I was bored last night and wanted to play with qemu and have a look at some of the stuff I don't use like plasma (much better than the last kde but still a bit pants). I created a 16GB cow2 disk...

i want to run an editor in the background with commands stuffed into its input. this is being run in a script i want to run under cron. the editor never exits. it works fine at the command line and...

Published at LXer: It's easy to add capacity to logical volumes with a few simple commands. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/resize-lvm-simple)

I've got an HP Elitebook 840 G2 with Linux Mint installed. I have a USB-C dock I want to use with it. But running into issues getting the driver installed. I've tried running both...

I installed from my USB correctly and Mint booted up fine. It responded well for a day or so. In learning more about the system I got a message, after taking a snapshot of the system, that I needed...

Published at LXer: This guide explains how to install TP-Link AC600 Archer T2U Nano WiFi USB adapter in Fedora and Ubuntu Linux distributions and how to connect to 5G Wireless Internet connection...

Alienware ASM100 Ubuntu 20.04 - just ran apt update && apt upgrade KDE Plasma desktop Logitech M220 Wireless mouse Middle-click works, it is only the scrolling that does not. It does work on my...

Hi! I am trying to install Linux on an external hard drive for use on a macbook 7.1 2010 (16GB Ram). I have read that some distros install files relevant for booting on the internal hard disk...

Published at LXer: WordPress is a free and open-source content management system that is very popular among bloggers, but it can be used for more than just blogging. With WordPress, you can create...

Hi gang, I downloaded slackware64 current (from AlienBob's site, the fixed one made 4/24) to a flash drive so that I could install Slackware to a new computer I just built. Specs are as follows:...

Has anyone seen this? A columnist shouting Linux out...https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/04/how_to_starve_big_tech.html Particularly this quotation: ---Quote--- Ditch Windows and...

I am just setting up a new system with Win10 and Linux Slackware 14.2. I have a very similar system I have been using successfully for 3 years. Both came with a Win10 hard disk pre-configured. In...

Published at LXer: Researchers from the University of Minnesota secretly tried to add security vulnerabilities to Linux kernel, but they were caught and banned. Read More......

Attached is a shell script that parses the nightly MySQL dump from the Community Radio Browser and imports stations into the local soma configuration. It depends on the uncsv command. It takes...

I'm having a trouble getting this scanner working on ANY system. It worked for many years on Mint with zero issues. Trying to get it going on Windows 10 reveals that there is no driver from Epson...

Published at LXer: 'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman. Updated Computer scientists at the University of Minnesota theorized they could sneak...

Hello, I created an SSH account on https://www.sshpower.net/ website and I want to use for tunneling my connection. The website showed my account information as below: Code: --------- Host:...

After 25 years of using Slackware, it's time to move on. My thanks to Pat and all the others who kept Slack going over the years. Slackware is a great learning tool for Linux. Those new to Linux...

Hi friends, I am using Slackware current, shouldn't the 'rc.dnsmasq' not display stop and start message when we restart the service? It would be informative and useful to the user. Thank you.

Published at LXer: Sqlite is a lightweight but feature-rich database management system that is widely used in embedded systems like mobile devices. In this guide, we will see how to install SQLite...

Hello, yesterday, i created a tar.bz2 file with a command like this: Code: --------- tar cjf allfiles.tbz ~/../myuser --------- Why? At that moment, i wanted to also include all hidden...

Published at LXer: An important concept to understand when working with the Linux process is what is the foreground and background process and how to control them. In Linux, if you execute any...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 21.04 as the new series of their open-source and independent software suite under the new name, KDE Gear (formerly KDE Applications). ...

On Mon Mar 15 19:37:28 UTC 2021 in Slackware Current ChangeLog, Pat did an announcement regarding Firefox package maintenance. The summary of the announcement is: ---Quote--- (...) At this...

I use Dell Latitude laptop. It has 2 Ctrl keys. The one on the right side has 3 lines on it. How do I use it?

Published at LXer: Today Canonical has released its latest version of the operating system, Ubuntu 21.04. Ubuntu 21.04 codenamed "Hirsute Hippo" packs with some cool new features and a lot of...

I'm trying to add a new user to my linode server. I'm using Ubunto. I create the new user but when I try to log in as the user I just created, I get an error that says " Permission denied, please try...

Running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with all packages updated. Up until a couple of weeks ago, everything was fine, then Ubuntu stopped showing YouTube videos in Firefox and Chromium. All I get is the first...

Published at LXer: Concrete5 is a CMS (content management system) which allows users to edit any page via editing toolbar and change its content or design without reading complicated manuals or...

Hi guys, i need your help to be able to run epsxe on the updated Slackware64 Current. Not long time ago i was able to run creating a symbolic link Code: --------- ln -s libncurses.so.5...

Published at LXer: Building a highly-available clustered infrastructure is one of the most commonly used solutions to achieve 100% uptime for your application. In a clustered environment, there is...

Hi All i am new to linux i want to extend disk space on one of the partition. i want to extend /data from 500 GB to 900GB, so i have added another drive to the VM with 400GB. root@server01# df -Th...

I am experimenting with apache2.conf as per apache2Cookbook.pdf. The problem I have is that after I invoke *firefox localhost/restricted.html* the second, third, etc ... times the restricted.html code...

All, I have a RockPro64 NAS with two identical 8 TB drives in a BTRFS raid1 configuration on top of LUKS. I'm running Open Media Vault, aarch64. Every so often, generally once after each rsync...

Published at LXer: Setting up hostname is an important task for any system administrator or anyone who uses Linux. It is tedious to remember a machine by IP address. Hostname helps humans to...

In theory, dash should be faster than bash. So I was wondering if you should link sh to dash (instead of bash). Can this cause problems with existing scripts under Slackware? I also noticed that...

Published at LXer: Tuner is billed as a minimalist radio station player. It’s free and open source software written in Vala. Designed for elementary OS it runs on other popular Linux distros....

I am just a tad surprised over all the problems that seem to affect version 15. Yes, I've been with you (Slackware that is) since the age of dawn - I just can not remember more problems about a new...

I have not been able to scan on my computer to my mfd since the ubuntu 20,10 update. I also have had an install error every time I upgrade. It has to do with the nvidia -450 driver I think, because it...

I have Mint 19.1 XFCE just installed on a Laptop, 32 bit. First up I tried to update but the updater window contains no responsive options. All grey and I can't update the list or install updates. It...

Published at LXer: I manage a YouTube channel for the FreeDOS Project, where I record "how-to" videos with FreeDOS running inside the QEMU*PC emulator software. When I started the channel in August...

Hello to everyone. I've installed a qemu / kvm debian buster / armhf VM on top of my jetson nano / arm64. This is the procedure that I have used : stage 1 : I've created this script for the...

Published at LXer: All the official Ubuntu flavors bring their own version based on the Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo release. We give you a quick glance at the new updates for all the flavors. ...

Published at LXer: Joshua Peisach announced today the release and general availability of the Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 21.04 distribution as part of the recently released Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)....

{sigh} I am a dumb {rectum} I was having trouble auto-mounting some drives when I did a reboot, even to the point of doing a cron "job" It really frustrated me to no end.... after a few days of...