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Published at LXer: The Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) operating system is now available for public beta testing ahead of the final release later this month on April 22nd, 2021. Read More......

Published at LXer: I recently started writing a game where you build words using letter tiles. To create the game, I needed to know the frequency of letters across regular words in the English...

I have a small LAN and one public IPv4 address. I currently have (in proxmox) one LXC installed, where LAMP is running (IP 192.168.1.101). There are 4 vhosts configured in apache. web1.ddns.info...

Hello. If there are Telegram users here, please join the group https://t.me/slackware_global. There are a lot of Slackware groups in Telegram, but there are no English speaking. I believe it should be...

Published at LXer: Laravel is an open-source PHP web framework. It was first released in June 2011. With each new release, Laravel is making it easier to implement complicated features without...

Although often posted question, unable to connect android smartphone (Wiko Lenny3 marshmallow) to debian linux (buster) Issue: root@vaio:/home/francesco# mtp-detect libmtp version: 1.1.16 ...

Published at LXer: Valve released today Proton 6.3-1 as the latest version of their compatibility tool for Steam Play to help you run Microsoft Windows games on your Linux-based operating system. ...

I have cron run a weekly backup script. For years it ran without problem, but maybe a year or two ago the script would not umount when the backup completed. I want it to do so. The scripts starts and...

Published at LXer: In the 21st century, we tend to take data storage for granted. We have lots of it, it's relatively affordable, and there are many different types of storage available. No matter...

Can python experts please help me? I am converting "%s" % style code to modern "{}".format() style. Original code is: Code: --------- sws = ["a", "an" ...] ... "|".join([r"%s\b" % w for w in...

Hi! I was installing a winxp into a mid2007 Macmini, and while checking for firewall applications for it, found info about Peerblock. Digging into it, i found there's a linux application also -...

Hello, I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and tried to do a routine update today. It turned out anything but. I ran the update as usual (using sudo zypper dup) and allowed it to do the updates. I...

Hi, I am not so well-versed in wireless, so bear with me. I have a 60 megabit internet connection , which I have shared via wifi using a Raspberry pi 3 model B. The problem is, I do not get...

Published at LXer: This article explains how to enable hardware acceleration in Chromium browser running on Raspberry Pi OS. Read More......

https://ibb.co/jwQwSLB https://ibb.co/jwQwSLB how do I change hard to blocked ? and how do I disable the built in mobile broadband card

Hi, Since last 7 years, I'm managing old baremetal server runing Debian7 with LAMP. Currently uptime is about 4years, and I am very scared to reboot it as many upgrades comes, and also this...

I installed a brother MFC-7420 . installation was fast. but it doesnt print. i use Mint 19

To whom it may concern: *System* Debain amd64, python 2.7.18 (probably python3 also runs into same issue) *Situation* Code: --------- """%s\n""" % ... --------- is rewritten into

Published at LXer: Linux Lite developer Jerry Bezencon announced today the release of Linux Lite 5.4, a modest update to this lightweight distro based on Ubuntu and using the Xfce desktop...

Hi, Is there any url/link extractor command line tool or python program which can extract urls from text files by defining filter. Currently I am relying on Code: --------- $ grep -E -o...

Published at LXer: Search giant insists it's necessary, iTitan didn't have anything to sayAndroid and iOS phones transmit telemetry back to Google and Apple, even when users have chosen not to send...

Published at LXer: Mosh, which stands for Mobile Shell is a command-line application which is used for connecting to the server from a client computer, over the Internet. It can be used as SSH and...

Hi all- I read that a neat way to share data with windows is let windows access a share in linux. I also use virtualbox. I realize that I used an ntfs folder as a transient folder to link to...

Published at LXer: In this edition of our open source news roundup, IBM's Call for Code aims to solve climate change, the Linux Foundation launches a new signing service, and more.read more Read...

I think a SSD is by far the best thing to speed up ones computer. I installed one in both my desktop and laptop. Can't believe what a bottle neck they eliminate.

Published at LXer: The hidden cost of multi-cloud, and how full open source reduces lock-inThe X.Org Foundation has successfully completed a migration from Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to Packet,...

Is there any program in Linux to see,step by step, the behaviour of the variables in executing a C file?

Published at LXer: gImageReader is a free and open-source PDF reader with the ability to extract text from images and PDFs. It is built as a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to Tesseract-OCR, an open-source...

Hi, I'm still in the process of learning systemd coming from systemV server user. I noticed that there are two boot filesystems mounted on the servers /boot and /boot/efi, understand that the...

Hello All , Here's another pet peive . When you live down a metered link & have to RE-DOWNLOAD because of an upgrade to slackpkg . I there a way to force slackpkg to upgrade it's pkg First ? ...

Published at LXer: A high-level overview of TLS/SSL and the OpenSSL tool, creating private keys and CSRs, and an introduction to the Internet PKI. Read More......

KDE Neon Plasma 5.21.3 I tried recently to install a program but it didn't finish, now each time there is a system update I get a few messages, the first one is : E: The repository...

Published at LXer: The pipewire promise is one of easy, plug-and-play configuration of all your audio devices. No more worrying about whether your application supports jack, PulseAudio or both. Now...

Dear people, Created a script to be executed at KDE login, the script works fine after login but cannot be executed at login (autostart), likely because pulse is not loaded completely yet. Do you...

I have a SUN Ultra 24 Solaris 10, and I updated Tools and Drivers from v1.0 to v1.6 I get these messages: SunOS Release 5.10 ............ Copyright 1983-2008 Sun ...... Use is subject .........

My desktop computer has 5 hard drives on it. The first two are for Windoze. The last three have Linux Distros on them. Two use the ext4 file system and one uses the btrfs file system. I would like to...

I'm running the -current ARM installed via the fatdog SarPi installer on a Raspberry Pi 400 with dual monitors and have a small border around the displays. I compared with the original Rasbian that...

Good afternoon friends. I have a problem and I need help to solve it. On my Arch Linux, I'm not sure why (an update?) A new "desktop" appeared. In the tree of my "Home" there is now this new desktop...

Published at LXer: The Document Foundation released today LibreOffice 7.1.2 as the second point release for its LibreOffice 7.1 open-source and cross-platform office suite series. Read More......

Published at LXer: In this article, an existing Ansible playbook is used to deploy Vim and convert it to a role adding flexibility and reusability. Read More......

Published at LXer: Plus other improvements to the Linux service managerVersion 248 of systemd, a widely used system and service manager for Linux, adds a feature called system extension images,...

I am very new to Linux, only started using it this week. I have 14 text files that I need to be combined into one text file with line breaks after each file. Each text file contains numerous lines of...

I complied IPtables script (full code on the bottom of the post). (1) Unfortunately i went through problem that i cannot make proper OUTPUT rules. Particularly this part makes me problem: ...

I am having weird permission issues. can you someone help me. Code: --------- [root@web2 PU3120421]# ls -la total 3208 drwxrwsrwx 6 xxweb bh_lab 170 Mar 31 10:44 . drwxrwsrwx 10184...

Just announced today: Windows-L! Since Torvalds sold the linux kernel to Microsoft, who will rebrand it as Windows-L in 2022, and since they went with Slackware's config under the hood, and are...

Hello I am trying to install a virtual machine in KVM using a console setup. The command is as follows: Code: --------- # virt-install \

Published at LXer: Learn how to use VCV Rack to make music with virtual modular synthesizers. Read More... (https://fedoramagazine.org/vcv-rack-modular-synthesizers/)

This thread is an offshoot of an earlier one regarding hardware support for the Fujitsu T901 hybrid laptop. It was noted that there is currently no Linux support for the two scroll devices on it...

I think I might have asked this question here many years ago - but looking through all my previous posts, I just can't find it. I'm perfectly happy to sort out dependencies when I install a new...

Hello, I did a complete clone of a disk (disk-to-disk with all partitions) using Clonezilla. The clone was successful but when I try to boot, it fails and I end up with the GRUB prompt. The...