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Hello! I have an old laptop Compaq Presario CQ56 bought in 2011 with SLED 11. I am searching the original kernel config file for that model. Could anyone help to find it?

Hello, I got this error after selinux installation. Can anyone help? Code: --------- $ sudo check-selinux-installation Traceback (most recent call last): File...

Hello, I installed a new Centos 8 distribution with 2 RAID1 mirrors. I want to be able to boot to either of the disks in case one fails. One boots, but not the other. Is there a way to enable this...

keefaz pointed out that the kernel that liveslak 14.2 comes with is 4.4.240 (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/liveslak-14-2-boot-loses-video-4175688410/) and that's too old for my...

Hi, I have had a bit of a love affair going with Mint Linux 19 lately. I have an old 32 bit HP NC6310 laptop however, that does not run particularly well under Mint19, the 32 bit variant ended with...

I am trying to force a particular user owner on newly created objects or files. I did u+s on the directory, but the owner is not being applied to newly created files in that directory. How can I...

I am currently having trouble with X Window System. I have compiled and installed all of the packages, and I have installed tons of stuff to increase its compatibility with whatever programs BLFS...

I put linux 20 1 on a flash key with YUMI. This is the latest Mint Distro. Everytime I end up with no save. The persistent file configs with the YUMI. Still no save, any ideas anyone. What good...

Belated Happy New Year to you all. I have 2 Centos 8 Servers - 4.18.0-240.1.1.el8_3.x86_64 - both have clamav / clamdscan installed, the primary reason being that they both provide a service to...

For any Slackware ARM users who are booting their RPi4 devices from a USB storage device and (like me) do a lot of (dis)connecting other mass storage devices while (re)booting, here's a short guide on...

I have a Ubuntu 18 server with Samba installed. I am attempting to set up a Windows 10 laptop in which the user and password authentication is controlled by the server. So if the user changes the...

The linked LQ wiki article below will guide you through the entire process of building your very own kernel, as well as the required prerequisites for both your system and the user building the...

I am trying to follow this solution: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openssh-sftp-server-chroot-fails-to-change-directory/44355/9 but don't know how to bind-mount the '/proc/self/fd/' dir to users...

Hello, I'm very noob in Linux virtualization world. Not quite young anymore if I look calendar, but in my mind I'm still like a child. Information sponge and easy entertained.

Hi, I have quite fresh Centos 8 Stream KVM server with Cockpit. Host machine is old Mac Pro with two network cards. At first, when I installed it, client machines did see each other, and I was...

I am trying to connect my iPhone 8 to Leap 15.1. I have been doing a lot of searching, but there does not seem to be many solutions. Ultimately I would like to backup my iPhone to my desktop, but...

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Hi, I tried posting this issue on another forum but no replies so far so I am trying my luck here. This is my device >>https://www.gsmarena.com/asus_fonepad_7_(2014)-6394.php I had purchased...

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I've installed an android VB (Oracle VirtualBox). The issue is that the app I'm interested in (my bank's) isn't showing up the VB android's playstore. Two workarounds which I can think of are:...

Published at LXer: KeePassXC 2.6.3 has been released as a maintenance update to the popular open-source and cross-platform password manager for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms with new...

Hello, Can anyone tell me how to install system-config-selinux on Debian?

I recently started working on syslog-ng and would like to know more details like below(need not to be limited to only below). Basics * How it works * If i have to run it on multiple devices to...

Published at LXer: A walk-through on how to deploy a virtualized TripleO standalone system, including creating the components need to launch and connect to a VM. Also included is how to cleanup the...

I have the following example for running *service mysql status* and would appreciate some feedback on exactly what I am seeing. I've recently brought this system back up after a failure and things...

One of the systems I'm looking at is doing something strange (to me), if I run; fdisk -l I get no output at all, never seen this before. any thoughts?

Published at LXer: Why packaging is important ? Original code was pretty straight forward Java coding which looks and works quite smoothly . However, all compiled classes appear to be placed in...

Systemd seems to be more friendly for sole WM user (pure openbox/i3wm without any DE) as it handles login management (logout, suspend, hibernate..). Without systemd, (i think) it needs some tricks for...

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, current version of Firefox, AMD A12 CPU & graphics. When playing audio in the background starting Firefox will severely distort the sound, especially when FF is displaying...

Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: This quick article shows you several ways to install Skype on Linux. Read More... (https://www.2daygeek.com/install-skpye-on-linux/)

Published at LXer: At last, some good things happening in 2021. The Fedora Project announces the first-ever official i3 window manager Fedora spin which will be available with Fedora 34 release. ...

This is an FYI post for someone who may have an Nvidia graphic card which uses G-Sync and a monitor that uses FreeSync. It appears that that Nvidia just recently upgraded some of their graphic cards...

Published at LXer: Want to use the encrypted messaging application Signal on Linux desktop? Here are various methods of installing the official Signal desktop app on Linux. Read More......

I have an OpenVPN AS node, our security team gave me a report that there's a qualys vulnerability says "Presence of a Load-Balancing Device Detected" On the solution section says: To prevent...

Published at LXer: In the past, close to 30K people signed up for a online petition, desperately wanting to have an official native Linux client for Google Drive, and yet their voice is still being...

As the title says. I just finished setting up a nextcloud instance on a newly built NAS system. i need to sign in with a server IP and i have been unsuccessful with both my public and private IP. I...

Published at LXer: The openSUSE community released today a new snapshot of the openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM operating system for embedded devices powered by an ARM processor with support for new devices...

I use zenity to create simple qemu launcher script and just ran into this bug: "WINDOW DECORATIONS RELOADED" shouldn't be written to stdout" KDE Bug 431365...

Published at LXer: Today, I’ll be taking you through a list of the best note-taking apps for Linux in 2020. Read More... (https://linuxstans.com/best-note-taking-apps-for-linux/)

Hi. I just installed MX Linux onto a computer, and tough the installer does provide an option to have separate / /root /home and swap partitions, it does not natively offer the user to specify...

I have encountered this error a few times before. I am a bit surprised to be encountering it now. Steam is working. I'm running a multilib system. Successfully running it I might add. So why is...

Published at LXer: This new business Linux distribution, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, will be released in the first quarter of 2021. Read More......

Hi, I'm trying to get rid of teq10 tun10@NONE gre0@NONE gretap0@NONE erspan0@NONE ip6_vti0@NONE sit0@NONE ip6tn10@NONE ip6gre0@NONE that shows up in 'ip link'. I tried looking into...

Published at LXer: If you love KDE and Arch Linux both, then this guide is for you. In this guide, we explain the steps required for setting up a complete fully functional KDE Plasma desktop with...

I upgraded my laptop to Mint 20.1 If I download a file to my desktop I get a proper icon of the kind that reflects the contents. If I move or copy it to a nemo window, I just get a generic icon...

Greetings folks!:hattip: I saw this type of sed command while following the LinuxFromScratch book (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/9.1/LFS-BOOK-9.1-NOCHUNKS.html#ch-system-gcc)'s...

I am trying to install Centos 4 on Hyper-v Windows to support some legacy software. I see that the isos are located here https://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/4.8/isos/x86_64/ But there...

Published at LXer: TensorFlow is a free and open-source machine-learning platform developed by Google. It helps developers and data scientists to simplify the process of implementing...