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Hello, does anybody have any experience TOTALLY wiping an Acer Chromebook 315 with an Intel cpu and installing GalliumOS? I can get the Chromebook cheap but I don't want to use "Crouton" to dual boot...

Published at LXer: If you are a beginner Ubuntu user, you may find it a bit tricky and confused on how to install the Nvidia drivers. This quick guide explains two methods – graphical and command...

Hello I am student and I never used Linux so long, so you can consider me beginner. I had to download manjaro along with Windows 10 and since I don't have enough memory on my C drive where the...

How to find and count directory and files found in find util in Bash Linux, and put in env. variable, or print out, or both, each e.g Code: --------- NUM_FILE= NUM_DIR= --------- of : (just...

I had been using GIMP to scan photographs using XSANE using the File/Create menu. After upgrading Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04, GIMP no longer has this option. XSANE 0.999 is installed and works to...

I may have posted this before but a way that should be pretty easy, safe and cheap to put linux on your windows pc is to flash it onto a usb stick under windows... There is software for this such...

Since a while, some messages I receive are messages that are "Frequently shared". Surely, during the holiday season, I expect this to happen and it happens a lot. However this raises a question....

Published at LXer: Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 1.3.6, a new monthly update to this Ubuntu/KDE-based distribution for the masses. Read More......

Hi, I upgraded Slackware current today and rebuilt the prerequisites for libsigrok, but I get an error building libsigrok. I have included the last few lines of the build hoping that it will help. Any...

Hi, Since the latest current-updates I do not get any response when running gparted or SBo-package luckyBackup (http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/system/luckybackup/) from the xfce...

Published at LXer: As we ring in a new year that many hope will look a lot different than 2020, I propose*we try to keep a few things that difficult year gave us:read more Read More......

As the title says, I can't boot LFS. I am relatively new to this stuff, but I have also created LFS distros before (4-5 times, I think), and I understand a good bit. The latest problem I am having is...

https://lemontreesites.com/blog/2020/11/28/how-to-go-full-dark-mode-with-libreoffice/ Where "Untitled 2" is written, it seems the menu bar with "file" etc. are usually placed is missing "Tools...

I found a multi-select bash script from here: https://gist.github.com/sergiofbsilva/099172ea597657b0d0008dc367946953 It works well except for 2 things: - If the list is longer than the viewable...

Hi everyone 14 years ago i had my own dns setup web and email all on 4 servers however am very rusty now and fedora core is nearly unreconisable i have just bought an entry hp prolint duel core server...

I'm looking for a source for terminal programing, like "Terminal for Dummies". I see posts from people on how to do something and I see the scripts posted to use in terminal and can't understand them....

Hello, I use synaptic to install many things used in my Debian. Mostly, no problems, I use it since several years ago. I have the game cgoban installed, and I want to play with its source. But it...

Published at LXer: Do you always check the time difference when scheduling meetings with your colleagues? Learn how you can add multiple timezone in Ubuntu. Read More......

Dear fellow Slackware users, I just upgraded a number of my machines from -current (around mid-October 2020) to the latest -current. I carefully followed the package removals and additions, and so...

I just installed kernel 5.10.4 packages from slackware64 -current and now startx gives a blank screen after a few moments. I boot to runlevel 3, login as my regular user, and issue "exec startx"...

Just seeing if anyone else has come across this issue. I have a couple of laptops with Fedora 33 installed using KDE and SDDM as the greeter. One that is having the issue, I just rebuilt a day ago. ...

Hi, I've just upgraded to the latest version of Slackware current and I can't build libftdi1 using sbopkg and Ponce's repository for current. I get the error message 'unable to find ftd1_doc.i'....

Hello! I have tried to make a bootable windows 10 flash drive with the following steps: Code: --------- [downloads]# *sha256sum -c win10sha256 * Win10_20H2_v2_Hungarian_x64.iso: OK ...

Hi there, happy new year :D The original content of /etc/asounf.conf : Code: --------- # ALSA system-wide config file # By default, redirect to PulseAudio: pcm.default pulse ctl.default...

I am maintaining two Slackware64-current installations on a new development box. On one of the installs I am fully current Slackware64 including KDE5/Plasma5. On the other I still have KDE4...

Published at LXer: Robert Norman Ross (Bob Ross) was an American painter, art instructor and television personality. Famous for his delightful hippie persona, his popular PBS television show The...

Hi, Is it possible to install any arm compatible linux distro to an apple TV? (2nd to 5th gen which are arm based) If it is, how? : ) Thanks from now

Hi, I have a perl script that wasn't getting run by (root) cron. I wrote another small script to test it and included the same 4 mods I was running in the initial script. Apparently the script...

Published at LXer: There are a lot of text editors available. There are those that run in the terminal, in a GUI, in a browser, and in a browser engine. Many are very good, and some are great. But...

Hi all, I'm a longtime lurker on LQ. Apparently, the last time I actually posted anything, before today, was back in September of 2003. At that time, I was posting a question about multimedia...

Does BleachBit work with Mint 64 19.3? Can it be used to shred certain file types?

Published at LXer: Fedora Project Leader recaps the year in Fedora and the success we've had as a community in a difficult year. Read More......

Why does Linux use this facility and why are all my 'snaps' involved?

Happy new year to all - All the best for 2021 I have a very small laptop and every CPU cycle counts. I do not have any issues but just doubts as far as reducing CPU cycles on a small laptop and...

Published at LXer: The advantage of plain text is that there’s no extra computer-specific information cluttering up your otherwise human-readable writing. The good thing about computers is that...

I have a Logitech MX Anywhere 2 BLE Mouse and an (I know!) Intel ax200 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth adaptor. I'm not sure which of them has the problem, but it means that at every boot, I need to Alf+F2, fire up...

Hey everyone just wondering if anyone is using e-phones, and if so what do they think of them here is the link https://e.foundation/about-e/ pretty much is explained on the website is...

Published at LXer: In 2020, Opensource.com's articles about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) aimed to help you rethink your infrastructure with continuous delivery. If you're...

I am new to this and I have been reading a lot of stuff the past days trying to understand but so much is confusing because same words seem to have a different meanings and the things explained...

I have a web site that takes a image every minute and at the end of the day I make avi of all the images. At the end of the month I make an avi of all the daily avi's and have done for years. At the...

Published at LXer: The Deepin 20.1 Debian-based Linux distribution has been released as a new installation media packed with performance improvements, new apps, and updated internals. Read...

I am using arch based linux, xfce. using legacy mode, MBR hdd. This is my hdd partition: sda1 windows7 reserve sda2 win7 ntfs sda3 / ext4 sda4 extended sda6 logical ext4 /home sda5 /swap I...

Published at LXer: A newly discovered and self-spreading Golang-based malware has been actively dropping XMRig cryptocurrency miners on Windows and Linux servers since early December. This...

I'm using Linux mint, but I'd like to be able to check my other networked machines as well. It seems like my machine always experiences one full disconnect/reconnect every time it wakes from...

Greetings, LQ. I hope this is the appropriate forum for this topic since there isn't a dedicated subforum for Raspbian. I have searched here and Google many times for this but haven't found a solution...

hello linux experts hope youre all right and everything goes well in your home-town. Have a happy new year - and stay healthy.* have a happy new year.* ever wanted to work with...

Published at LXer: Learn how to use Python to delete Linux files and Directories Read More... (https://buildvirtual.net/python-delete-file-how-to/)

​ Hello dear Community,* * about the install and using Python packages ::: difference between venv, pyvenv, pyenv, virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper, pipenv, etc? * here some musings about*how to...

dear community, i am on Linux. i want to set up a Python development environment: i have several options: in fact: Lots of choices we have VSCode, Sublime, Eric or ATOM and yes also PyCharm or ...

On Mac I use cmd+shift+4, select and area, screenshot and then immediately drag that into the PAGES app. I can also copy and paste the shot into an app very quickly. On linux I need to save the...