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Published at LXer: Welcome to the DebugPoint.com weekly roundup series of weeks ending March 21, 2021. Here’s a quick recap of the happenings from the open-source world on the applications,...

Hello, After the last upgrade to -current I noticed that rc.inet1 fails to start my wireless network. My configuration for rc.inet1.conf is: Code: --------- IFNAME[4]="wlan1"...

The Linux on my dual boot desktop starts to show a sign of aging. The Linux Mint 18.3 crashes easily and get frozen from time to time. I am thinking of replacing the Linux Mint with Deepin. Before...

Published at LXer: Today, I thought it would be neat to relive my Manjaro days for a while and see what’s new. So, in light of that, I’m going to go through how to flash Manjaro onto your USB and...

(Inspired by this brief thread (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/default-less-env-var-4175692406/), and the pre-beta status of Slackware 15.0.) Enabling color in "less", on a...

I'm confused on how can i use only one pipe for connecting n processes.

Hello, Hopefully there are some solutions to the puzzle I'm trying to solve. I am an artist and really only use my computer to run Scribus, GIMP, and Inkscape, browse the internet and move/export...

Hello, Welcome to everyone. I'm CENTOS 8 user, interested mainly in physical data analysis. This is realized mainly by means of the ROOT framework, but not only. Beyond this OpenCV user and VIM...

Hello, I am thinking to enable OpenGL 4.0 or higher on my 2 laptops equipped with Intel HD Graphics 3000 and Intel HD Graphics 520. Is that possible on SW current ?

Hi. I see google android builds from scratch (mostly?). It's online accessible by git. But unless running Android x86, which I can't get WIFI to work, I have to use Android VM. Preferred platform...

Published at LXer: Raspberry Pi fans rejoice, there’s a new Linux distro in town featuring the Budgie desktop environment, Ubuntu Budgie, which now has an ARM64 (AArch64) port for the Raspberry Pi...

When one upgrades certain software (as in performing an apt-get dist-upgrade after installing from a months-old snapshot, as I just did), one may see a notice identifying the resume partition, and an...

Hello all! I installed Debian 10.08 few days ago on laptop with UEFI and hybrid graphics. After the installastion it runs out of grub to black screen with blinking cursor and message about disk...

Hello, I have installed Linux Mint on my notebook and, since installation, I have no sound. I found a solution in this forum, but I have some difficulties following the steps. As a first step, I am...

Hello I'm running debian 10 (x64). I originally installed with root password, and one main user. After installing, in terminal it indicated I didn't have user privileges when using sudo so I...

Hey, mates! What distro has biggest community? Which one has minimal security risks on server side? Thank you, guys.

I have this 19th century book for reference in the form of an ebook. People are suggesting are suggesting crazy utilities slackware doesn't have. What's the lazy was of un-ebooking the thing?

I've just received in my mailbox an advertisement for something that seems to me really creepy. ---Quote--- Deep Nostalgia™ animates the faces in any photo, so you can see your beloved ancestors...

Published at LXer: The GNOME Project announced today the general availability of the Release Candidate (RC) milestone of the forthcoming GNOME 40 desktop environment series. Read More......

So I was trying to fix some un-escaped chars in my git log/history output and I found out that I needed the option "-R" in my LESS variable in order to pass through ANSI codes. By default in...

So an issue came up this weekend that is being insisted is a distro problem, but I don't think it is. What say you? Slackware current, Nvidia 1050ti, 460.56. I'm current on all updates, including...

The latest set of configs in pulseaudio are a definite improvement. I made the unusual (for me) step of copying in the .new files and as well as undoing whatever configuration I had made I got a...

I'm using Arch Linux and working on a project using wxgtk3 which I installed from pacman, I also installed wxformbuilder from the AUR which pulls in wxgtk2 as a dependency. When I try to build my...

Published at LXer: Those wanting to install the latest Oracle Java 16 (released recently) on Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux distributions based on these, like Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, etc., can now do so...

Hello, On Fedora Server 33, How can I find the Gateway and DNS addresses of an interface? I know that Fedora Server doesn't use "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0" and instead of it, using...

Hi I have a problem on new installed OS (fedora). I have dual boot Win10 and Fedora 33, during starting fedora I can see that is stuck after this step Started Updated mlocate database every...

Published at LXer: Alternatively: Python's pickle pilloried with prudent premonition of poisoning. Evan Sultanik, principal computer security researcher with Trail of Bits, has unpacked the Python...

Hi there, I've just migrated from CentOS 7.6 to Oracle Linux 8.3 and experience the following problem when I mount a share on this new OL8-installation from a Debian 8.11 client: 1. The smbd...

I have acquired a new 32GB flash drive to serve as location for up to three weekly Timeshifts. But I am told "selected device does not have a Linux partition". When I go to GParted I see that the...

Published at LXer: The ps command in Linux is our best asset for listing running processes on a system. But do you know how to use it effectively? ps comes with a small learning curve, thanks to...

Hi all, I have read in the latest -current Changelog that it's not suggested to blacklist the kernel-headers package in slackpkg. Could one of you please point out why is that? I have thought that...

So i installed kde neon from the official site 3 days back and today checked neofetch and it said Pop OS. I thought it was a problem with neofetch and tried with pfetch only to get the same result....

Published at LXer: CentOS Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 users received an important Linux kernel security update that addresses 11 vulnerabilities and numerous more than a dozen...

I try to put an old Dell 32 bit desktop to work. After trying some 32 bit Linux distros, I give up the approach. Those 32 bit distros are hard to install and not user-friendly. Last night, I come...

Hi all, I don't know whether here is the right forum for my question. Recently, I purchase the Business Plan, Shared Hosting, from HostGator. At the beginning, there was no problem connecting...

My Artech HW086 has no response when connected in Ubuntu 20.04. Here is the lusb output lsusb Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:e92a HP,...

Published at LXer: The Raspberry Pi Foundation released today a new version of their Raspberry Pi Imager flashing utility that comes with an advanced options panel to let you change additional OS...

Despite having hll3270cdwpdrv in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist, "slackpkg clean-system" wants to remove my hll3270cdwpdrv package. What's interesting is the full name of the package is...

Hello, Kit Fisto wanted Jedi. New to Kali Linux- Debian. Student. Tips always welcomed. Thank you

Hi all I'm trying to solve some boot issues with an ubuntu installation on an external SSD. I am wondering if I should do a complete re-wipe, but before I do, just thought I would try to...

I use this command regularly, with my digital camera connected via USB to my PC: Code: --------- gphoto2 --set-config datetime=now --------- This sets the camera date/time to match the PC time....

Published at LXer: World's most used mobile phone OS gets some new toysGoogle has rolled out the second Android 12 developer preview, with the pre-release version of the mobile OS largely focusing...

Published at LXer: Sometimes we need to manually add a program's installation location to the $PATH. This tutorial explains how to add a directory to PATH in Linux. Read More......

Hello, I'm using the Control4 system in my home. The controller (EA-5 v1) for the system is running a linux flavored OS. The boot files is on a eMMC chip. Based on the screenshot below, it...

Original panel icons don't change when choosing a different icon theme. How do I make them change to the new chosen theme?

Just installed Zorin 15 Education and all is great [even got openoffice to install], but when I went to use one [VLC, but all not working] to play a dvd found no codecs were installed with any of the...

Hi. I'm running virt-man v2.2.1. I've many GNU/Linux VM's installed a Win7 VM. On all, I had no issue in changing the resolution. Today, I installed the sparkylinux-2021.03-x86_64-kde.iso and I...

Trying to ripp my audiocd with abcde. All working fine but ... does not tag at all This is part of my .abcde.conf Code: --------- CDDBMETHOD=musicbrainz...

Long story short, I got myself old Let's Note and as any other Japanese market only tech it came with JIS keyboard. I got how to use it in TTY(found the keymap).. But how to use it right in X11? It...

Published at LXer: The Calamares universal installer framework has been updated today to version 3.2.39, a release that introduces a new features for Linux systems using the Btrfs file system. ...