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Published at LXer: There is no shortage of challenges and competition in the open source database market, but Aiven CTO Heikki Nousiainen sees opportunities for growth. Read More......

Published at LXer: Spiderfoot is a free and open-source vulnerability testing tool that helps you to reduce attacks by hackers. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Spiderfoot on...

Hi, I am unable to read UART data from COM port ttyS0. Read is being blocked (since it is a blocking call) and it gets triggered and data is read from UART once i run cutecom application. Please let...

Published at LXer: Staff quit as board refuses to budge on controversial decision. Three key staff members of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) have resigned in protest at the organization’s...

(Subtitle: chr(157), chr(158), and chr(159): The characters whose display is forbidden. [play scary music]) My goal was to find the proper integer to pass to chr() to obtain a white block to use...

Building mumble-1.3.4 for a Slackbuilds.org update, I also tested on 64-but Current and noted a whole host of mssing icons in the menu, themes. It looks like the KDE Frameworks 5 package...

Published at LXer: If you’re interested in giving back to the community, you should know that the Ubuntu flavors are planning an Ubuntu Testing Week starting April 1st, seeking community’s help as...

Published at LXer: The first of the next generation of the Red Hat CentOS Linux clones, CloudLinux[he]#039[/he]s AlmaLinux, is here. Read More......

Published at LXer: This bash tutorial explains the bash's built-in brace expansion, and presents examples that illustrate how to use brace expansions to define a range or to generate a sequence of...

Now we can migrate to 5.11.11 in mainstream. *Linux Kernel 5.11.11 from testing/ to: a/kernel-generic-5.11.11-x86_64-1.txz a/kernel-huge-5.11.11-x86_64-1.txz...

My computer build won't start, so I dug out my old PSU tester and plugged in the 24-pin cable. Every light lights up except the -5v. I assume they all have to light up, so...I suppose that must mean...

Published at LXer: Fedora Linux and tiling WM fans rejoice, there’s an upcoming Fedora Linux spin featuring the i3 tiling window manager by default, and in this article I’m giving you a first look...

Published at LXer: Ideally, SSL certificates are issued by publicly trusted certificate authorities (e.g. Let’s Encrypt, Comodo, Verisign) to provide authentication and encryption on the internet....

Published at LXer: PyPI, the Python package index, provides a JSON API for information about its packages. This is essentially a machine-readable source of the same kind of data you can access...

So I recently acquired a new HP Chromebook and when I learned of its ability to run Linux apps in the Crostini container, I was more than pleased. My biggest issue right now is I can't get CUPS up and...

I am considering purchasing a RockPro64 for an installation in my shop. I would like to know if anyone has slackwarearm experience using an hdmi touch screen with this board as well as if they are...

Kernel 5.4.50 Slackware 14.2-current Hi: by Skype-like I mean you can make free calls. For some reason I thought Skype was a paid service but, looking in google with ' What is Skype' I have just...

Published at LXer: Uri Herrera announced today the release of Nitrux Linux 1.3.9, a fresh new ISO snapshot of this KDE Plasma-based modern distribution for the masses. Read More......

I want to move my Apache webserver directory. I've looked at literally dozens of websites that claimed to tell you how to do this, and basically they all just said "Oh that's easy, just change...

Howdy Slackware LQ: I've spent way too much time building slackware packages and way too little time surfing... There's bound to be other shell scripts shared through the years for managing the...

I have built source code for omniORB version 4.2.3, available from Sourceforge. I have created an .rpm file using the provided source archive and .spec file. This build produces several packages...

It seems to me all internet browsers constantly supply old search results. Results show up are years old, a decade old. With Google's one shot "Tools,Any Time, Past Year", "Tools" popup, I see...

It is the weirdest thing. A virtual host was removed from the httpd service and now the httpd service fails. The journalctl -xe reports the following error: ---Quote--- -- Unit httpd.service...

Published at LXer: Ticker is a terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking, available for Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows. Besides quotes, Ticker also supports any...

Sed will not let me specify options in this situation. It seems to be limited to "-nf". I need more than just that. I need to process all files in a directory. >> mysed src/*.c I want the...

Published at LXer: Update-golang is a shell script to easily fetch and install latest Golang versions with minimum user interaction. Read More......

I have Centos 7 installed on my Lenovo G560e and at the same time, I run a dual boot with windows 7.So my problem is that my wifi and ethernet connection (rj45) on windows 7 is good (it's 2Mb/s),...

Published at LXer: It is not much fun when your Desktop hangs. The fear of lost work, the inability to continue work, and more. But it need not always be like this. Knowing just a little extra - a...

I have an old ASUS eee pc that I'm trying to install linux on. I can't for the life of me get it to boot from USB port. I've tried ISOs of UBUNTU, LUBUNTU, and slax. For LUBUNTU and slax I...

In the leftmost area of my open Menu screen, I have a vertical bar with these pushbutton options: Lock Screen, Logout and Quit I'd like to remove the Lock Screen and Logout buttons, since I don't...

Published at LXer: Major corporate supporters abandon the FSF, while board members and leaders resign from the organization, as the outrage over Richard M. Stallman being allowed back on the board...

I have a client who wants a private IRC server. I'm having problems installing the latest release of Inspircd IRC server on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS. I can install and update ubuntu with no problem....

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, I will show you how to install, configure and customise the ZSH shell and make it how you want it Read More......

Hello, My system is dual boot (Debian and Windows 7). On Windows OS, I worked with Eraser (https://eraser.heidi.ie/) and wanted to select a Flash Drive, but mistakenly, selected Drive C. System...

Hello, i am having issue where i am running command: ---Quote--- echo "Input video filename or path to convert and hit enter:" && read -r i && echo "Quality: 25=identic, 30=a bit worse but...

Published at LXer: PINE64’s Pinebook Pro ARM Linux laptop is back in stock and you can buy one right now for only $219.99 USD with the Manjaro Linux ARM distribution pre-installed. Read More......

Many years ago I took an image file, ran it through uuencode (on a Windoze machine), cut 10 columns from the resulting file and have used that data for years as a source of random passwords. Recently...

I'm wondering if anyone else is having this problem. I'm running Slackware64 current, xfce. After an xfce4-terminal has been running for a while I often find that the cursor stops showing, although...

Published at LXer: Here’s this week’s DebugPoint.com weekly roundup (Week Ending Mar 28, 2021) series, filtered for you from the Linux and the open-source world on application updates, new...

I want to restrict file access for various application programs. Application programs are of the office/home usage variety like viewers, editors, messengers, web browsers, CAD, integrated development...

I am trying to set up my vsftp for anonymous uploads without success. I keep getting this error from the client: OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot() Can someone help...

Hello, When I do a df command the system says this. nigel@localhost Desktop]$ df df: /run/user/1000/doc: Operation not permitted Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs ...

Published at LXer: The Jupyter project started out as IPython and the IPython Notebook. It was originally a Python-specific interactive shell and notebook environment, which later branched out to...

If I am a junior admin starting out and am asked to setup servers, how do I know what partitioning layout to use? Do different companies/organizations use different schemes? Also can someone give me...

Published at LXer: Parrot Security (ParrotSec) released today Parrot 4.11 as the latest version of their security-oriented Debian-based distribution for penetration testing and ethical hacking. ...

Published at LXer: This tutorial will take you through installing your own ISPConfig 3 multiserver setup with dedicated servers for the panel, web, DNS, mail, and webmail using the new ISPConfig...

Hi there, everyone. I have an installation problem that has me stumped. A client of mine has an Acer Windows 10 laptop. The laptop has two drives on it, that's how he bought it new from the...

Published at LXer: Some data is ephemeral, stored in RAM, and only significant while an application is running. But some data is meant to be persistent, stored on a hard drive for later use. When...

Published at LXer: In this week’s blog, we look at some of the ways you can run programs from different operating systems on the Lenovo M93. We examine hardware virtualization, dual booting, as...

Published at LXer: There are many reasons people want to create computer clusters using the Raspberry Pi, including that they have full control over their platform, they're able to use an...