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Can anyone give any comparative experience on Android 10 vs 11? Ideally someone who has used both? My phone is on Android 10, which is a great OS, but I have the option to upgrade to Android 11 and...

I have Arch installed but forgot to do the encrypt /home directory during installation. What is the most efficient way to catch it up? I like to do it with cryptsetup.

Hi everybody! I've just installed Debian 10.8.0 (DVD1) i386 on an old laptop (Pentium 4, 1Gb RAM and Win XP running smoothly) and I've solved the well known issue "MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not...

Is there a distro that has an installer and built-in binaries so compiling is optional and I don't need to do it for big packages?

Published at LXer: This is a series of articles about buying a refurbished mini PC to run Linux as a desktop machine. Along the way, we’ll explain what you really need. Read More......

I installed Debian 10.9 on my machine which has an NVIDIA Quadro P620. After the installation, it booted into a black screen. Can anyone help me fix this issue?

[text editor command] [find . -iname "*apricot*" (instead of filename)] pipes and redirects?

Published at LXer: Do you ever get bored with seeing the same old terminal window on your macOS computer? If so, add some bells and whistles to your view with the open source Oh My Zsh framework...

I wrote a script: https://github.com/voncloft/Voncloft-OS/blob/master/utilities/checkrepository That will compare my linux from scratch repository on my pc against distrowatch's package manager -...

Almost have my Debian based router working flawlessly. Found an issue and sorted it so I'm back at it. Everything seems to be perfect save one. The static route at the bottom for 192.168.1.250 is to...

I have just installed CentOS 8.3 on my machine which has an NVIDIA Quadro P620. The highest screen resolution CentOS can display on my machine is 800x600 while my monitor can display 1920x1080. I then...

Published at LXer: Sometimes, you might want to apply a chmod to files only and not directories. This guide shows you three different ways to achieve that goal on the Linux command line. Read...

I own an Epson Perfection V550 Photo Scanner that worked well with Mint 19.3, but that I was unable to use when I upgraded to Linux Mint 20; the problem appeared to be with the installation of the...

Hya, *Set up* Three penguin (Debian amd64) cluster (slurm); All share one nfs drive, Two of them are headless. There is a directory on nfs where executables are stored. All penguins are happy. ...

Hey there, I installed the latest beta recently. All worked fine, KDE5 worked too, but I could not move my mouse cursor. I could click on it. I read that this may have to do with libusb but I...

Published at LXer: It is mandatory to open the network port on the firewall, which allows the application for external access. Read More......

I've been having some issues with SSH on Ubuntu 20.04 since installing sshd / Openssh server. I'm getting this error when I connect to my ssh session. I've searched around and I'm not finding much...

Hello, I experienced some performance problems on Xfce, slackware current. I wanted to change vblank_mode using Code: --------- xfwm4 --vblank=xpresent --replace --------- and Code:...

Published at LXer: In Part 10 of the LFCA series, we brushed over the classes of IP addresses and gave examples of the commonly used IP classes. However, that was just an overview and in this part,...

Allo all, I have Firefox 87.0 but I don’t think the version matters. I also have Kubuntu 20.10 but I had 18.04 before and the problem was present. The open file dialog box varies between...

Sorry for my noob question. I prefer to ask rather than to make a huge mistake. I have 16GB of RAM , 500 GB on a SSD and 2TB on a HDD. My OS will be Fedora 33. I would like to keep all my valuable...

Hello Everyone. I want to dual boot Fedora 33 alongside Linux Mint 20.10. I used a software called *UNetbootin* to dual boot these Linux Distros. After I used this software and restarted my...

Published at LXer: Many of my blog's readers already know lots about open source, but I'm also aware that many know little, if anything, about it. I'm a big, big proponent of open source software...

I wanted to setup a ntp server but I find that the ntp Port 123 is not open on the vm I setup. I wanted to setup an ntp server in hopes to point my systems to it for time but I am not having much luck...

Hi! I update always slackware 14.2 stable 64 bit with Gslapt. Gslapt locks some updates (kernel and something else). Today i updated Slackware with "slackpkg upgrade-all" and now i don't know...

Hi slackers, I recently installed on my main desktop slackware64-current and I faced with the following problem: when I ran ghostscript it could not find libidn.so.11 Meanwhile, libidn.so.12 was...

I have an HP Stream netbook that I run Fedora 32 on. Everything runs fine, but I can't update to Fedora 33, because the Stream has a hard drive that is just 32GB. When I try updating, it says there is...

Published at LXer: This is a moment in history for us to remember. An open source operating system built by thousands flies a helicopter on another planet. Read More......

Hi, Unlike rpm based distro.. ubuntu iso cd does not have whole bunch of packges. I have mount iso image on /mmt I see boot,dists,install... directories. its a live images. Do I need to use...

Before I install ghostbsd I have 2 questions. Q1)I have 4GB of RAM. Can I install ghostbsd ? Q2)I need Keepassxc & Veracrypt ...are these 2 apps available in the default repos ? If I get the...

I have 2 different red hat dhcp servers. I new rhel 8.2 and an older 6.10 backup that needs to be replaced this summer. Anyways, I need to block a couple MACs from getting IPs. I can put in 1...

Hi all, I am trying to create a directory with stamp in the shell script and then i want to dump all the files in to it. When i write like this,i always get an error saying that No such file or...

Hello, honorable members of the forum. I am having trouble playing online video. Youtube plays videos properly. However, the video message, e.g. www.klekusiowo.pl, does not open to me I used the...

Published at LXer: The Zorin OS team announced the release of the Zorin OS 16 Beta which is immediately available for download and testing. With this pre-release, Zorin OS promises some massive...

Dear Gurus, I have found a link (Bash Script) through which we can create Users in Linux. Problem is all the Users created from this script does not have SUDO Permission (root Permissions). Please...

Hi all I have connected my smartphone without any problem using Bluetooth with the RPI4. After exchanging the same number on the two sides, the connection was established and I could transfer...

Hello there, I can't see any desktop icons using xubuntu 20.04 in gnome with xorg, i tried to install dconf editor but enabling desktop icons doesn't work it, also i tried to change the DE to...

Hi all I have installed the latest image of Slackware ARM on my RPI4 with, of course, KDE5 ! Everything is working fine except ... the system configuration window ! When I click on "System...

Published at LXer: COBOL-inspired caps lock English just don't add up when dealing with large SQL codebases. Structured Query Language (SQL) at scale can lead to unstructured, unmaintainable...

Hello! It just occurred to me that the topics we're covering in the ARM world might be interesting to folks who use x86/64 too. There are two playlists...

Hi all, i got Lenovo ideapad 3 laptop with AMD Ryzen 5 3500u (iGPU). My system info: Code: --------- [pavle@pavle-81w0 ~]$ uname -a Linux pavle-81w0 5.10.26-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 25...

How to find out via openstack client, if the stack deployed via HOT / Heat Template is consistent? I tried following 3 commands but none gives straight information: consistent OR inconsistent. ...

I am a new linux user, I have a workstation connected to a testing device through serial port (ttyS0) then suddenly it stopped working. I connected USB-Serial adapter to check the software also was...

Published at LXer: Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is used on Linux to manage hard drives and other storage devices. As the name implies, it can sort raw storage into logical volumes, making it easy...

I am a new linux user, I have a workstation connected to a testing device through serial port (ttyS0) then suddenly it stopped working. I connected USB-Serial adapter to check the software also was...

hope this is an appropriate place to ask this. i have this: Code: --------- for file in *.mp3; do sox $file -n stats > $file.txt 2>&1 | tail -1; done --------- which makes a text file for each...

Published at LXer: A stunning and revamped GNOME-based desktop announced by the Pop OS team - named COSMIC. Let's take a look. Read More......

This is hopefully a straightforward question: I have a machine running Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS - it's a desktop with a monitor and keyboard and everything, and I remotely connect to it via ssh and sftp...

Hi all, I wanted to run monthly db backups. Can i do like this? Code: --------- if [ `date +%d` -eq 25 ];then mysqldump --opt -c -u$user $db | gzip >...