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Ouch! A couple of hardware failures clobbered a firewall system on our home LAN---we lost one of the ethernet interfaces as well as the HDD. All the hardware has been put together and Slackware 14.2...

I know this must be trivial but I haven't found a fix. The update to 20.12.0 in kde went without a hitch, thank you Pat. When I run pkgtool now it runs as normal and the first menu is presented with...

I received four 3TB HHDs, from NewEgg, yesterday, I spent about 36 hours straight getting my system up and running. I am currently in the process of reading my previous drives and writing them to my...

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how much effort would be involved in implementing a Desktop Environment entirely in Python (now version 3 only) with maybe critical bit/pixel crunching parts in C code called from Python? a first...

in Xfce version 4.12 on Xubuntu 18.04.5 LTS there is an item in the first menu that comes up when right click the desktop area. it is about 2/3 of the way down the menu and is labelled "Arrange...

The query that I have ,is this On the "Murga" forum for puppy linux had a install procedure for Brother printers ,but it is over 7-8 years old. I would like to be able to install my brother printer...

First of all: I HATE building software from source. It never works out of the box. Never. Never. In my 20 years of Linux, it only worked once or twice. It failed in every other time. Now, I'm...

"Hi!" from the Southern Rockies to all GNU/Linux users at LQ! Staying sane through COVID is my main purpose here. I hope also to share what little I may know and continue to learn along the...

hello, when using airdump-ng and airplay-ng how do i know if kali linux is using nord vpn ip and making sure my real internet ip is safe? i know over ethernet when loading browser it shows nord...

With earlier versions of Mint Cinnamon I would see one icon in the panel for each file or doc I had open. With Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon (and with the earlier 19.3 Cinnamon) they are nested--for...

Here's what i get after trying to authenticate: Code: --------- sudo pacman -Syy [sudo] password for usr: Sorry, try again. [sudo] password for usr: ---------

information board: * http://www.orangepi.org * specifications (http://www.orangepi.org/Orange%20Pi%204/) * wiki * (http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/mainpage.html)buy...

I figure that the question in the title made you think "There surely is, whatever it is"... and that's what I think, but I don't know of it. So this is the thing: I remember old Windows 95 and 98...

Hi guys. I am learning to use rsync. Right now the project is moving a VPS server to another remote VPS. I followed the tutorials online and came up with this command: Code: --------- rsync...

Hi, does anyone know of a good cross-platform open source alternative to Zoom that does NOT require Google to operate it? I prefer to use a browser like "Duck duck go" since I hate being tracked and...

I am trying to download chrony group package to setup NTP for time. How come requested URL return Error ? thx Code: --------- $ sudo pacman -S chrony

I can successfully run Slackware-live -current 1.3.5.2 using USB2 & USB3 flash drives. I installed 1.3.5.2 on an SSD with sata/USB2 cable & my MBAir 2013 & 2014 boot successfully & seem to run...

Anyone try building OpenSSL-1.1.1 on Slackware-14.1? Any issues??

This is my first time to dabble in Linux, My son gave me a raspberry pi for a fathers day gift. Originally I used it for retro gaming, but it got me interested in Linux.

Published at LXer: Learn how to use Docker Compose to deploy and run multi-container applications Read More... (https://buildvirtual.net/how-to-use-docker-compose-tutorial-with-examples/)

My pulse audio will only show Dummy Audio Device no matter what I seem to do. It works on ALSA anad I can play music with XMMS in that mode if I try. Nothing is using the sound card in fuser -v...

Please see attachment. ---Quote--- This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing. ---End Quote--- I really want that addon but the...

Hello forum, hello experts! I successfully installed Debian 10 on my old hardware, after some problems with my onboard Dual-LAN Realtek 8110 network card. Now I disabled the onboard Dual...

I have 2 VPS on the same host provider. Server 1 and Server 2 as seen in the screenshot below. Server 1 has a nextcloud installation and i have previously been playing with certboot on it to issue...

Hi, I am a linux newbie. I was switching between workspaces in linux lite 5.2. I generally do that by Ctrl+Alt+Right/Left Arrow Keys but this time I was pressing Ctrl+F1/F2. By mistake I pressed...

When I connect my Bluetooth headset to my phone I get excellent results. The signal is very strong but when I connect the same headset to my PC running Lubuntu 20.04 the signal is very weak. I get...

Published at LXer: DHCP (Dynamic host configuration protocol) used to assign an IP address automatically to Mobile, Laptop, PC, and other network devices so they can communicate. In this tutorial,...

Published at LXer: AWS S3 Storage Lens gives*visibility into object storage usage, activity trends. It gives*recommendations to improve cost-efficiency, also it*applies data protection best...

Published at LXer: Single board computer? It’s time for Single board servers. A new product, ZimaBoard, is being prepared for its crowdfunding campaign to give you a “hackable single board server”....

Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to list and remove a repository gpg key in Ubuntu. Read More......

Published at LXer: Gromit-MPX (GRaphics Over Miscellaneous Things) is a utility to make annotations on the desktop. It’s a multi-pointer port of the original Gromit annotation tool, and uses the...

Published at LXer: There’s always room in my Activities menu for a utilitarian text editor. Of course, the exact meaning of "utilitarian" is different for each user, but for me, it means a text...

Published at LXer: This guide explains how to migrate CentOS Linux to Oracle Linux using centos2ol script. Read More... (https://ostechnix.com/how-to-migrate-centos-linux-to-oracle-linux/)

I have an old Stealthplug that I would like to use. I haven't used it in a while and don't have any Windows computers to set it up on. I could only find 1 article on the web for setting it up and that...

how would i change the keyboard layout on slim login screen. My system and x are in dvorak but not my login screen. also how would i change the backround of slim.

I was kindly helped on this forum back in August, to solve a problem with an elderly friend who has Mint on his system and had trouble getting a new printer to work. It is explained in this thread: ...

Good morning. Future updates of the software should address the difficulty that you must scroll the blog entry to reach the edit-button, while it would often be more comfortable if the buttons were...

Why Xorg sessions are on CTRL-ALT-F1 now? Ain't it supposed to be on CTRL-ALT-F7?

How do we have find to not print, ie. to supress, when on else condition ? Code: --------- find . -path '*/*t*s' \( -type d -printf "DIR:%p\n" -o -printf "**%p**\n" \) -o -print ...

Hello I don’t know where else to ask this so I’m just gonna ask it here. I really love dragonfly bsd but WiFi not working kinda defeats the purpose of a laptop. Hello, I was wondering what the...

Since the big update the other day when new KDE packages were added I am now seeing everything I paste in xfce terminal get highlighted and any newlines copied are ignored. It also happens in xterm...

So I am currently experimenting with different bootloaders on my new system that uses pure UEFI. I finally got everything worked out with all three elilo,grub,rEFInd except one last problem. on...

Published at LXer: Red Hat is transforming CentOS into a DevOps-friendly, leading-edge rolling release. Many people liked it just the way it was. Now, CentOS[he]#039[/he]s founder is working on...

Published at LXer: Most programming languages have certain things in common, such as:VariablesExpressionsStatementsThese concepts are the basis of most programming languages. Once you understand...

In my CentOS 7 installs I uninstall FirewallD and install IPtables instead, then use my standard IPtables firewall script to configure it. Now as I play with CentOS 8 I’m learning FirewallD for the...

What's wrong with my firefox 77 ? Many webpages i can't load, for example: https://askubuntu.com/questions/109626/how-do-i-know-my-kde-version Code: --------- Secure Connection Failed

OK, I might be losing my marbles. I'm only trying to change the text highlight color in my GTK theme. I've already modified gtk.css for the theme, as well as settings.ini, nothing seems to achieve...

Hello, Ages ago on macintosh I have been a fan of Littlesnitch. So when I read about Opensnitch on Linux I was definitel interested. Alas, not being a geek, I was quickly rebuffed by the need to...

Published at LXer: Slack is a modern communication platform for companies to replace emails. In this guide we will learn how to install Slack under Ubuntu 20.04. Slack can be easily installed on...