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I'm trying out Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, with Gnome I think) as a laptop OS. I downloaded Discord for Linux as a .tar.gz, and let Archive Manager unpack it for me. The result is a folder containing a...

Why has there not been a massive shift from windows to a hardened version of linux. Installing malware should be much harder than it is. (Depending on how hackers were able to change SolarWinds...

Hello, New to the forums. Sorry if this is the wrong place for this thread. I want to dual boot Mint and Windows 10. I have 10 installed right now. But when I go to into Mint 20, I don't see that...

Published at LXer: KWrite is a desktop text editor for KDE’s Plasma desktop. It’s meant to be a universal application that anyone can reasonably use when they need to jot down a quick note, write a...

Hello, I don't think this is going to "SBo scripts not building on current" thread, as Darktable compile. But latest darktable 3.2.1 or darktable 3.0.2 from Ponce's slackbuild repo does a...

I’ve been attempting to install the VNC Server in Kubuntu 20.04 now for a number of days and have final gotten it installed where it comes up without errors and just sits there. I'm up to the...

I have a new Lenovo Chromebook which comes with a Debian 10 (buster) app. It's an app that runs linux in a terminal. I am trying to install the newest version of the statistical software R (4.0.3) but...

I have a new Lenovo Chromebook which comes with a Debian 10 (buster) app. It's an app that runs linux in a terminal. I am trying to install the newest version of the statistical software R (4.0.3) but...

Published at LXer: Docker is an open-source application that provides lightweight operating-system-level virtualization through the use of containers. The key benefit of Docker is that it allows...

With Slackware enabling CONFIG_PCIE_BW in Linux 5.10.1, my dmesg get spammed with this message: Code: --------- [ 887.495904] nvme 0000:02:00.0: 15.752 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by...

I have installed Ubuntu 20.4 on a new build with the MSI Z490 motherboard but the wired ethernet is not working. The ubuntu distro minimal so installing the driver from Realtec fails because the...

Hey LinuxQuestions.org community I have a quick question? Is it possible to download the whole debian-wiki page or some how be able to read the wiki's content offline in my browser on localnet? Wasn't...

Published at LXer: In this guide we will go from fresh Windows laptop to a fully functional Arch Linux multimedia workstation, tuned for audio performance. Read More......

I've searched with ddg on methods of improving the transmit range of a small bluetooth transmitter. They use an antenna printed on the circuit board and I think there are two ways of modifying this....

Hello, I have a product based on the FTDI4232H chip (having total of four ports). Each port of this chip supports UART/SPI/I2S/GPIO. It seems the Linux kernel automatically loads ftdi_sio...

Hi, I know this is an odd & noob question but i want to use linux my old laptop. So i want to know about kernel and distro relation. I have an old laptop that has an amd cpu and a nvidia gpu. But...

Published at LXer: In this article series, Opensource.com Correspondents and others have been writing the same "guess the number" game in various programming languages. This exercise shows how the...

Hello, Assumptions: 1: The user knows nothing about containers except that: 'qemu' is hardware virt. and 'lxc'/'lxd'/'docker' is software virt. using the host kernel. 2: The host: Newly...

Hello, May i ask that: #1: How-to edit '/etc/sudoers'(aka 'sudo' Policy) file if: The 'root' user want a nonRoot user 'bh0laJi' to be able to execute "/bin/shutdown -h now" and a script...

I had 2 drives fail in a raid. They are replaced and all is good, and no data is lost, but it made me realize how I really need a better backup solution for my VMs, and even physical systems as a...

Hello i have a linux server with several SAMBA/CIFS shares. It is sometimes powered on but not always. From my client computers, i need to mount these shares at the following conditions: *...

Hi! My name is Asyereal and I am a Linux newbie. I use Ubuntu with Windows 7 on a dual-boot PC.

ive just finished a project in void linux. 1 problem, no one will ever use it unless i can get it onto a usb as an iso. can someone walk me through this i dont want to have done all my work for...

Published at LXer: This article looks at some of the ways you can find duplicate files on Linux, by exploring some of the duplicate file tools available with examples of how to use them. Read...

Published at LXer: The workspace navigation is going to change completely in GNOME 40. The new design is so easy and immersive that people may be migrating to GNOME from other desktop environments....

Published at LXer: This guide explains how to add, delete and grant sudo privileges to users in Alpine Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: With CentOS Stream now "tracking ahead" of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where exactly does that leave Fedora, Red Hat[he]#039[/he]s community Linux distro, and long-time RHEL test...

Published at LXer: This guide explains the steps you need to install GNOME Desktop in Arch Linux. This guide has two parts. The first part deals with installing the base Arch system. The second...

Published at LXer: Google's Android Auto application casts content from a smartphone to a car's head unit display. Officially, that content includes navigation (e.g., Google Maps and Waze), media...

Published at LXer: Today we’ll see some ways in which the average users of open source software can contribute to these projects, even if they have no experience at all. Read More......

I have added patches to build NVidia Legacy Driver (390.138) to work with Linux Kernel 5.10.x on my SlackHacks (https://github.com/willysr/SlackHacks/tree/master/nvidia/390.138/5.10.x) repository just...

Hi Everybody, I am new to linux Environment, i wrote a script to check execution permission of files in a given directory(it could be anywhere) but i am having a little trouble. my files are in...

I have a vanilla debian 10 setup with nginx. I installed firewalld which went fine. I added the HTTP and HTTPS rules using: Code: --------- firewall-cmd --add-service={http,https} --permanent...

Hi, I want to configure firewalld (sorry no need additional software apache, nginx or squid, I need firewalld or config of my reversy proxy). I have running reverse proxy (polarproxy) in machine...

Over the years I've found myself using links more and more for web browsing, for load times if no other reason. Oh yeah, and the blithely getting past popup ads without realizing they're there until I...

Hi guys. Cloud you plese help me how to change the default paths of the default user folders (Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Screenhots, Videos) to my location on diferent /dev/sda with ntfs?...

Hi guys. Thanks for looking. I recently moved and am having to use wireless whereas before I used ethernet. The problem is that when I boot into Gnome I get the Oops something went wrong bullshit....

I spent way too much time trying to get this to work. Instead of using the QEMU preset you have to use the generic x86_64 UEFI preset (known as “tablet” in pmbootstrap). It also has to be on a SATA...

Lighttpd is on Ubuntu 20 # 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 Some of my issue comes from getting my hosting from...

Just a heads up, as I have seen storage devices that are unusable for my purposes in GNU/Linux surface, of late. Without naming names, and for example only, I see all recommended storage devices...

*# ls -l ls: cannot access 'gvfs': Permission denied total 0 srw-rw-rw- 1 user user 0 Dec 16 19:43 bus drwx------ 2 user user 60 Dec 19 20:54 dconf d????????? ? ? ? ? ? gvfs...

Question 1. : Hello, what is difference between hosts.txt vs hostname.txt file? Question 2. : When i have kali@kali in terminal, first kali is name of the user, and the second kali is private ip...

On the hard disk as shown below, I'd like to - change the type of the 4th partition - create a primary partition for the free space - install a different linux distribution on it - keep the other...

i have chrooted into my debian install and then run this command Code: --------- time tar -cvpJf --exclude-from /root/exclude.tar debian-backup.xz / --------- where # cat /root/exclude.tar

Hi all, This is my first post in quite some time. I’m pretty much a Manjaro newbie; I run the Gnome edition of 20.2 Nibia. I had to reinstall my system a while back, and this time, I had...

Hi guys, Yesterday, I got my USB drive corrupted by cancelling format process from KDE partition manager. Since then, I'm not able to access my USB drive. I'm not able to understand what I have...

I've been setting up a homelab and am looking at making some additional services available externally. With only one public IP address, I am looking to setup a reverse proxy to enable me to do this...

I was pretty sure my distro was running a 64-bit version, but I couldn't remember. I saw amd64-microcode in the package list on the liveCD I installed it from. I see this on the Debian website-- ...

Published at LXer: This article explains how to install the Deepin Desktop Environment on Ubuntu 20.04 or 20.10, and Linux distributions based on these Ubuntu versions, like Linux Mint 20.x. You'll...

I watched a YouTube review in which LM20 and LT 5.2.6. was compared for resources used. I think this was Virtual-box review of each. When he checks the ram usage it was 4GB. for Lite lite and it was...