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I want to establish a connection to my tablet via usb cable for file transfer. The tablet is recognized on my notebook with Antix, but I can t open the folders, because error code says that I dont...

Published at LXer: The finest and stable Linux distribution MX Linux 19.3 was released. We take a look at what's new. Also, this post explains how to download and upgrade MX Linux to its latest...

When booting on my Linux Centos 7, it stays stuck on the message Code: --------- A start job is running for Builds a... rough DKMS --------- for more than 1 hour, Do you have any idea how to...

Published at LXer: Proxmox launched today Proxmox Backup Server as a new edition of its Debian-based Linux distribution engineered to act as an enterprise solution for backing up and restoring...

Published at LXer: I[he]#039[/he]m very excited about GNOME 3.38. The new version of the Linux desktop environment includes lots of new features and a noticeable performance boost. But in the...

To be SUPER-BRIEF, bad disk crash, the disk was really bad, so I grabbed another disk (yeah... I three more on my desk). I decided to try Devuan, BUT a few years ago my network card went bad, so I...

Published at LXer: In early 2020, I wrote an article on three metrics*for tracking and measuring*offline, in-person community-building activities. Little did I (or the world) know then that...

What *FREE* animation software is available for Linux (if any)? It doesn't have to be anything "fancy" or "spectacular". i checked out the "Blender" website (which has *NOTHING* whatsoever to do with...

Published at LXer: This is a bit different method until Oracle release Fedora 33 repositories. Fedora 32 VirtualBox rpm works with Fedora 33, but unfortunately there is fixed version of python(abi)...

Published at LXer: Canonical has reverted the Intel Microcode update released on November 11th for all supported Ubuntu Linux releases to address a regression causing boot failures on some Intel...

Published at LXer: LXQt 0.16.0 released with more improvements and bug fixes. Here we review the changes and take you through the new features of this lightweight Qt desktop environment. Read...

We have VM linux server with disk of 100G ( LVM ) We want to extend the OS disk from The Vcenter from 100G to 500G , and using the extra size for new partition with 400G So the plan is like...

Published at LXer: 22120 is a tool to save your browser history as an offline archive, available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and macOS. Currently, it only supports Chrome-based web browsers, but...

Hi All, I accidentally clicked a link in a phishing email. I meant to confirm signup on a legitimate web site, checked SPAM, thought I had the right email and clicked a phishing link by mistake. ...

Published at LXer: The Debian Project announced today the winner of the artwork contest for the upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye” operating system, due for release in summer 2021. Read...

I'm looking for resources of Linux drivers for various devices.

I'm new to Linux, where's the best place to start?

so it's a simple mint install. home desktop install, no VMs or anything complicated. for whatever reason the mint backup program wants to back up to /media/tom/(long string of gobbledegookhere), ...

Published at LXer: This brief guide explains how to edit a file without changing its timestamps in Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: PowerDNS is a free and open-source authoritative nameserver. PowerDNS Admin is a web-based tool used for managing PowerDNS. You can create and manage DNS zones using the web...

Once in a while I feel as though free/libre software just kicked me in the gut. For the past couple of weeks I noticed console soft scrollback stopped functioning (Shift+PgUp/PgDown). First I...

Published at LXer: All Linux systems create and store information about servers, boot processes, kernel, and applications in log files, which can be helpful for troubleshooting as it contains...

I can run *pizdataRest.php* which calls *restoreBakup.sh* which contains the subject *"select"* command from the command line in a terminal with no problems; *it works!*. Running the same from the...

Published at LXer: To make an Integrated Developer Environment really useful you need an open application programming interface. The popular Mirantis Kubernetes Lens IDE now has one. Read...

Published at LXer: Here in this introduction to Playbook creation, we examine the play that manages updates for a local Ansible controller machine. Read More......

I tried to build graphviz-2.44.1 on i586 current, but it failed missing `-lc-client'. After grepping through the source/build directory it seems that this flag comes from the PHP_LIBS variable set by...

All, I have a desktop running Ubuntu 18.04 that randomly freezes, most often while Youtube is playing a video via Brave browser. This is not the first time but it's gotten much much worse over the...

Published at LXer: Termux is an Android application that you can use for various purposes in the Linux environment. We can install some Linux applications that run on the Command line just like...

I have a file name, abcdefgh.mp4 and I want to just get the last four characters of the name "efgh" (okay - I know files in linux don't have extensions like in Windoze it's alll just part of the name)...

My problem is moving my mythtv-backend into Docker. The location of the maintenance scripts is empty, namely Code: --------- /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/maintenance/optimize_mythdb.pl...

I would like to make the menu fonts larger. In Windows I use a userchrome.css setting that does not seem to work at all in my distro based on Ubuntu 20.04. Trying something else, I tried the advice...

My HDD crashed. I replaced the drive and had to reconstruct the whole system. I make backups religiously, but one backup is bad. Apparently, I hadn't shut it down before it was finished doing...

Published at LXer: Installing NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu is an easy task that can be done in less than a minute. Ubuntu includes a tool that can detect the graphics card model and install the...

I am transforming my WHS2011 server to an Ubuntu Desktop server. I know very little about Linux, so I look forward to perusing the site to get answers to my Linux questions. Steve

Published at LXer: GNOME 40 – the next major release of the GNOME Desktop environment brings more auto-completion features across some modules. Read More......

Hello everyone, I would like to use awk to select an exact regex (pattern) in a file, and print the line including the regex. Unfortunately, as the regex is a variable "$f", I can't use the...

Published at LXer: Regards is billed as a modern photo viewer. It supports a very large range of image formats. There’s OpenGL/OpenCL support. The software can also play videos. It’s written in C++...

Published at LXer: This post explains how to replace, append and insert values from a lookup table held in an AWK array. It's easier than it sounds. Read More......

Published at LXer: If you’re looking for an actively developed Reddit app for your GNU/Linux distribution, look no further as Giara is a new Reddit app for Linux written with Python 3 and GTK 3. ...

Hello everybody, my name is David, I'm from Spain. I working as Linux sysadmin, mainly with RedHat/Centos, Suse and Ubuntu.

Published at LXer: The 2020 Open Source Jobs Report just came out so we took the opportunity to speak with Clyde Seepersad, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Training and Certification...

Hi all, I am trying to sort a large text file that looks like this: BBBID: 0000000125 3F007F4A6FC1;CD0E658FB0BAB0757C2F8DAAE2AC1 3F007F4A6FC1;A98FB374CF8D591BFCD85F4AD8310...

I am trying to mount a Samba share and have encountered the following error. The command used to mount the share is: > sudo mount -t cifs ///smb /mnt/smb -o...

I have been using my current setup for some three months and it seems the mix is not that stable. My original installation was Ubuntu 20.04/Gnome. On top of that, I loaded KDE Plasma 5.18.5. but...

Published at LXer: One of the major changes of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.21 desktop environment series, due for release in early 2021, is a new app called Plasma System Monitor. Read More......

Hi while installing xfce4-settings-4.14.1 getting error Plz find attachment of screenshot.Attachment 34559 (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/attachment.php?attachmentid=34559)

I have just installed Slackware on a usb stick, encrypting it with LVM and LUKS. When I boot it up with lilo, I get this error: ``` LUKS device '/dev/sdc2' unavailable for UNLOCKING! ls:...

Normally, one just leaves tmux running, but in one situation I need it to go away when I am no longer actively using it. If I have a tmux session with some windows open, I can have it killed...

Just a heads up. Since the latest python-urllib3-1.26.0 update in current requests throws a dependency warning for urllib3 (1.26.0). requests-2.25.0 is out and fixes the problem.

Published at LXer: This Friday, November 13th and Saturday, November 14th, from 9am to 4pm PST the 8th annual SeaGL will be held virtually. This year features four keynotes, and a mix of talks on...