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hi again, I have been using kdenlive to do some amatorial video editing and this is my box/screen setup: a) desktop (Xeon E5 v3, 32GB RAM, NVIDIA GF116 6GB,) is connected to two 43" samsung (one LCD...

On multiboot system - is there a way to identify the actual location of current OS? Likes " OS is on /dev/sdax ". Similar to " uname " .

Published at LXer: Greg Kroah-Hartman announced today that the Linux 5.9 kernel series reached end of life, urging all users to move to the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel series as soon as possible. Read...

What is the Slackware big picture to configure a VPN client without using NetworkManager (NM)? Use some custom rc.d scripts? The primary system is a static desktop Ethernet connection. No wireless...

Published at LXer: Discover the versatility of Ansible with these top guides for IT automation. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/automation-guides-2020)

Hey! I am running slackware-current, kernel-generic-5.4.84 I want to install the new kernel-generic-5.10.1 but after previous lockup during boot, i want to keep my 5.4.84 installed as well. As...

On the desktop computer both the keyboard and mouse were USB. I bought two USB - to - PS2 converters. The USB keyboard works very nicely but the mouse is not working when connected to PS2. Only...

You can use HandBrakeCLI to encode a video and it will automatically crop the black borders, works well unless something on screen gets in the way, see the attached image. The CBS-Justice tag...

Published at LXer: After several months of work, Collabor has announced a first proposal for a Wayland driver for Wine. At this point the proposal is in the form of an RFC (Request For Comment), in...

Do not report this post as a duplicate post. It is not a duplicate. This error appears in my other post but it is not what is actively being resolved there. That issue is for an in place upgrade not a...

hi I am planing to do LUKS install of kali in my brand new 1TB HDD , there are a lot of tutorials on this topic yet they all assume that you are using the whole HDD . So i am looking to do the...

Hi everyone i am new here, hope to lean and interact with all of you guys and help out each other.

Hi, OS is Debian Buster, kernel 4.19.0-12-amd64, Notebook HP 250 G3. When I resume after suspending, the wifi frequently drops; it asks for the password the first time it tries to reconnect, even if...

I have got into some very serious problems. I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 earlier this year. This automatically upgraded Blender from 2.79 to 2.82. I need to use Blender 2.79 as a feature (the...

Published at LXer: There are multiple ways in which you can create an*S3 bucket on AWS. Cloud formation is one of the Infrastructure as Code (IaC)*ways to do this. In this article, we will explore...

Can someone tell me *exactly* which Virtualbox packages I need to install in manjaro to get VB to work? In manjaro I keep getting stuck trying to install the Extension pack, and having the app...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago) yum update -y Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos, security, subscription-manager There was an error communicating...

I'm getting some errors while trying to update. Please find the screenshot of the problem attached with this post.

Following an update on my CentOS 8, "certbot renew" cannot run and throws the following error: Code: --------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/certbot", line 11, in...

Just a general question for discussion. Do you guys/gals see the Arm chip to replace the current Intel chips? And I suppose to ask, will Linux follow to use it easily?

I made an error applying "mount" and now I cannot use "umount" . What am I doing wrong? Code: --------- sdl 8:176 1 28.9G 0 disk

Hi all. I run Ubuntu 20.04 with Mate 1.24.0, on an aged 64 bit desktop. I usually have several terminals open - right clicking on the folder and clicking on "Open in Terminal". I was wondering...

I'm having trouble with yum. I was able to run yum manually without a problem. However, I have it setup to run automatically. When it would run automatically, I get the following error: Code:...

Hello thats my first thred in this forum so I want to say hello to everbody. I just started with Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) and I try to mesure time of all functions in my debug file of cpp code. I try with...

Published at LXer: If I ask you how to send an email, what would you say? You will say go to gmail or yahoo mail and send the email. But, do you know that you can send emails using your Linux...

Using Ubuntu 20.04 on desktop and use suspend mode when not using computer Tried the following - dmesg | tail, not detected Tried modifying grub from this procedure...

Dear all, First of all I hope I chose the right forum to ask this question - I'm not a complete newbie on Linux but I'm not as skilled as I'd like... For work-related reasons I need to connect...

Published at LXer: With the introduction of the Raspberry PI 400 it now seems that the Raspberry PI is a viable desktop computer. There is now a full Ubuntu desktop version available for the...

Is there a tool to obtain upgrade history of a certain debian package - a list of dates and versions installed? I am about to write a script parsing /var/log/apt/history.log and decided to inquire, if...

Have an awesome solstice - even in these troubled days. May the Gods help us through them. :)

Published at LXer: The developers behind Kwort, a GNU/Linux distribution based on CRUX Linux, announced today the release of version 4.3.5, which ships with the latest Linux 5.10 kernel series and...

Every time I try to burn a DVD (data project) its failing like this : Please see attachment. I have tried XFburn & K3B. Both failed. Can someone please tell me whats going wrong ?

Published at LXer: Here's this week's roundup series, curated for you from the Linux and open-source world on application updates, new releases, distribution updates, major news, and upcoming...

Hello, I am building a PC which I am planning on putting a custom linux distro on it which will act as a console. I really want to know which distro would be the best to fork off. I eventually decided...

I need to zero out the contents of all the files in a given directory, including all its sub-directories, recursively. The intended result would be that all the files have the size of 0 bytes,...

Published at LXer: JavaScript is still one of the most widely used programming languages. How has it been able to continue its popularity, and where will it be 25 years from now? Read More......

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I've tried restarting the computer twice. Today, it seems as if my mouse is jumpy. More specifically, it's not as responsive or accurate. It's like when I move it to a...

Friends-- Production environment. The problem: On bootup, luks will not accept my correct passphrase. What I did: I unplugged the machine from one location, plugged it into another. On boot,...

HI all- what is the purpose of the logins folder for gnome keyring. I don't use it to manage any app passwords to the best of my knowledge. It is not unlocked at login however it appears to have...

Published at LXer: The Open Organization community published more than 30 articles at Opensource.com this year (to say nothing of the books we released, too). That's 30 new case studies,...

Installing kali Linux on my laptop should I boot into windows or kali

Published at LXer: The Manjaro community announced today the release of Manjaro ARM 20.12, a major update to the ARM edition of the popular, Arch Linux-based Manjaro Linux distribution for embedded...

This is my old Lenovo W510 Thinkpad laptop. Have not been able to reboot with the upgraded 64-bit kernel. Lucky I have saved the last kernel that worked as an entry in my lilo.conf so am able to...

I used youtube-dl -x on some Youtube videos from my church to extract the audio; and unlike the last times I did, youtube-dl gave me mp4s instead of mp3s. I have no use for mp4s. No problem, I...

How do I install Maelstrom on Ubuntu? It's a game that resembles the old "Asteroids" game.

drgibbon asked in thread "Requests for -current (14.2-->15.0)" (see post here...

Published at LXer: reveal.js is a free and open-source HTML framework that can be used to create fully-featured presentations through a web browser. It is built on open web technologies. It has a...

Hopefully this question isn't too broad - I'm mostly just looking for some 'how-to' kind of information here, but I don't have (currently) a machine configured this way. Background: Years ago, when...

I think I am using the most recent version of 64-bit Ubuntu. # uname -a Linux www 5.4.0-56-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 23 19:20:19 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I checked the...

Hi all, The title basically says it all. I'd like to delve into ncurses using C as an effort to further my programming skills. I do have a Bachelor degree, but I have nog been given any...