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Which Kernel can I download to run on an i686 cpu ?

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I am looking for an encryption mechanism that isn't flawed... (1) DM-crypt is unreliable because if you are using an SSD and you enable trim, it exposes information about the file system:? here is...

I have a Squid proxy server running on CentOS 8, the server itself was supplied with an additional /27 subnet. I am assigning all addresses to the same port, which is where I think my problem lies. ...

I want to inform so currently when boot Slackware64-current instaler by PXE and try to mount NFS source, the rpc cant't start because Code: --------- /sbin/rpcbind: error while loading shared...

This is probably a stupid question. I've recently installed Slackware 14.2 on my old laptop (Tecra R840-10T (http://https://emea.dynabook.com/discontinued-products/tecra-r840-10t/)) and am in the...

I want to set DNS1/DNS2 for the system and not per nic. Is it possible with NetworkManager? All the example I see is nmcli con mod ipv4.dns "8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4"

[edit: I did solve this. The first file patch I downloaded was corrupt, but I found a raw one that did work here...

I am running a distro of Linux that uses Ubuntu as its core. I have asked my issue in the distros forums and cannot seem to get any help. I get notifications in the upper irght corner of my screen. ...

Laptop reboots apparently randomly. It seems to me due to hard drive overheating. It runs Debian 10 stable. Interestingly, it does not happen with Windows 8 with the exactly same hardware (multi boot...

hi, I need to durably change the permissions on /dev/rtc0 so that another user can write to it. Thus, I wrote a udev rule, ran "udevadm trigger" and rebooted. It did not work. my custom udev file...

what do i need to add to the following code Code: --------- #!/bin/bash #for i in ./*old_string*; do mv -- "$i" "${i//old_string/new_string_here}"; done for i in ./*\ -\ *; do mv -- "$i"...

trying to build the slackbuilds version of python3 for 14.2. the downloaded source matches whats listed in python3.info. it fails with the following message: Code: --------- patching file...

Did a squid proxy recently for the internet. After much sourcing from various articles I finally pieced it together and have it running in Docker. First problem - my download speed is slow. I'm...

Need help re-numbering lines in a text (not the order, just the numbering) Example: Title 5. line with text 8. line with text 13. line with text 7. line with text

The recent poppler build in current is missing some headers, which are needed by other programs, e.g. inkscape. I rebuilt the package with: Code: --------- -DENABLE_UNSTABLE_API_ABI_HEADERS=ON...

From: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node-api-examples#fileoperations Code: --------- curl -k -i -X POST -d ' { "path" : "/" }' https://USER:PASSWORD@HOST:9092/files/browse --------- ...

Hello, I installed the ntp package on my Ubuntu 16.04 VM and when I run "ntpq -p" it says "No association ID's returned". Can you help me find the problem?

I found a site that had a table of conventions used when using flags, like -i for input, -o for output -s for silent or is that -z? I just cannot find that site - actually I found a few sites...

Published at LXer: When you need a consistent scripting platform in a heterogeneous data center, Cygwin delivers. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/hybrid-system-cygwin)

Published at LXer: Nvidia released today the short-lived Nvidia 455.38 proprietary graphics driver for Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems to add support for a new GPU, as well as a couple of new...

Published at LXer: Pandora FMS also know as "Pandora Flexible Monitoring System" is a monitoring tool used for servers, networks, applications, and virtual infrastructure. In this tutorial, we will...

Hi, apparenlty, I have some issues in assembling a raid(1) device from a live cd (Clonezilla). This server has two physical disks. I booted clonezilla and I get this: Code: ---------...

Hi all, As a Slackware newbie, the question might be a bit wrong, but I came to know about `slackpkg` by mistake (in some other forum thread). The Slackware book...

Hi all, I am new to Slackware (coming from Arch). I want to receive notifications for Slackware ChangeLog: http://www.slackware.com/changelog/stable.php?cpu=x86_64. Is there any...

Hello ;) (https://bigtitstube.xxx/) Code: --------- sed '4 s/A/B/' testfile.txt --------- This command on the 4th line finds A and replaces it with B. How to write it in a bash script when...

Hello, I configured a DNS server on a VM and when i try to dig on the client side I get status: NXDOMAIN and no answer. What may be the problem? *Server VM (static ip address 192.168.101.1)* *...

Published at LXer: The Secure Shell is a critical tool in the administrator's arsenal. Here are eight ways you can better secure SSH, and some suggestions for basic SSH centralization. Read...

Published at LXer: The Document Foundation announced today the unexpected availability of the LibreOffice 7.0.3 update to the latest LibreOffice 7.0 office suite series, addressing some important...

Published at LXer: The Linux Foundation[he]#039[/he]s OpenSSF is introducing a suite of security classes and a certification for open-source programmers. Read More......

Published at LXer: In this article, I will show you different methods to format a USB drive on the command-line and on Debian Desktop. You can use either of them based on your preferences. Read...

Published at LXer: When you want to perform an action on a POSIX system, one of the safest ways to do so is to use the sudo command. Unlike logging in as the root user and performing what could be...

Published at LXer: The Arm website touts the processor[he]#039[/he]s underlying architecture as "the keystone of the world[he]#039[/he]s largest compute ecosystem," which is plausible given the...

Published at LXer: JavaScript[he]#039[/he]s humble start began in 1995, when it was created in just 10 days by Brendan Eich, then an employee with Netscape Communications Corporation. JavaScript...

Published at LXer: Back in 2012, we carried a feature looking at 5 file managers that received little media coverage but which carried bountiful promise. The five programs are SpaceFM, gentoo,...

Published at LXer: You might have come across a boot partition in your Linux installation and wondered if you need it. Here are the answers. Read More......

Kudos to the master who created the slackware boot file that displays the number of cpu cores as penguins at the top of the initial screen. I've noticed over the years the number of penguins went...

Published at LXer: Developers take note. The next version of Linux you should target for your hardware will be the Linux 5.10 kernel. Read More......

Published at LXer: Like all Linux distros, it's important to keep your CentOS system up to date in order to make sure that you have the latest security updates and newest features. Updating the...

Published at LXer: Michael Dawson, chair of Node.js Technical Steering Committee, talks to The Reg. Interview Popular open-source JavaScript runtime Node.js hit version 15 last week, and to bring...

Published at LXer: Vdx is an intuitive commandline wrapper to FFmpeg. Using Vdx, we can do most common audio and video encoding and transcoding operations. Read More......

I'm measuring the run time for a complex signal-processing algorithm written in C on several different computers, all running linux. The code is partially parallelized by some of my own methods using...

Syspatches 1-3 available for all architectures for OpenBSD 6.8. Code: --------- obsd$ uname -a OpenBSD obsd.darkstar.home 6.8 GENERIC.MP#0 amd64 --------- http://www.openbsd.org/errata68.html

Slackware64-current (july 2020) Kernel 5.4.50 vim 8.2.1039 Hi: Code: --------- bill@darkstar:~$ ls -l ~/.vimrc -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 10 Oct 29 15:49 /home/bill/.vimrc bill@darkstar:~$ cat...

Not sure if this is properly a 'hardware' or 'software' question, but I'm trying to figure out which kernel revision added support for AMDGPU with Radeon RX 580 (aka Polaris) and/or the rest of the V....

Hello, I'm having problems setting up Samba. I followed these instructions: https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=slackware:samba. I successfully added the user smbguest, but the step with Code:...

Hello Team, I am struggling to get value from one column in robomongo using python. The below query when executed in robomongo will give us the value as 7306 ...

Hi I am trying to learn Kdenlive. It is working fine, but in my latest exercise, I put some audio/video effects in the project. And, now when I try to render, it gives following error: Code:...

Hello, I'm trying to use the Slackbuild to build and install LXD on Slackware64 14.2. I downloaded, built and installed google-go-lang from the following URL: ...

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