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Hello all, To begin with, I had joined here not long ago, and received help regarding my printer/fax/copier and new foray into Linux. Thank you for that, everything was achieved nicely, and I...

Published at LXer: Wall Street may continue its insane upward rise, but Tidelift is finding the more sensible, financially strapped businesses on Main Street are turning ever more open source. ...

Published at LXer: The GNOME Project released today GNOME 3.36.7 as the seventh maintenance update to the GNOME 3.36 desktop environment series with various bug fixes and translation updates. ...

Second link in second "Main Menu" section on right hand side links to https://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/rules.html which is returning 403 Forbidden The link was working recently (I think today,...

I tested my network in wireshark and noticed strange router's behaviour. Source and transmitter addresses are different. MAC* address of my router is transmitter address, not source address. What's...

Hello, I got a black screen when connected to VNC server. Can anyone help? Here is the log: Code: --------- Xvnc TigerVNC 1.9.0 - built Apr 23 2020 14:52:39 Copyright (C) 1999-2018 TigerVNC...

As far as I know, portage logging has never worked correctly on any of my systems (and I'm not alone (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-709768-start-0.html)). While trying to diagnose the issue,...

I recently installed slackware64 14.2 KDE with 4.4.227 kernel and I want to install nvidia driver for a GTX970 GPU. Can someone please tell me which is the correct nvidia driver to choose from the...

Is this something I've done wrong or a quirk of PCManFM/ my netinstall-based Debian laptops? The micro-SD card with my music on mounts and can be used after start-up, as can usb hard drives. If I...

I have dodgy DVD (not content wise - it plays fine on a dvd player), but in two different drives on my pc it fails, so I used ddrescue Code: --------- ddrescue --no-scrape /dev/sr1 WD.iso...

Hi Guys, The domain active directory account used to join the Linux host to Active Directory can be reset (reset password) and wont' have any effect between the hosts? Meaning it won't be...

Hi :( As I can't fine the solution to my problem or that I'm doing somehting wrong I'll ask here. OS: Arch 200901 with some updates after that. Running under virtualbox as of now but that's...

Hello, I have some trouble figuring out the correct Xorg configuration. I have a laptop with a GTX1650 and an interal GPU of the AMD Ryzen 4600H. The Laptop monitor is connected to the internal...

I am struggling with connman, connecting to wifi, getting this error message Code: --------- We received a DBUS reply message indicating an error, Error Name: net.connman.Error Already...

Hello, In a Virtualization environment, for some reasons, host NIC must be in promiscuous mode, but I don't like my Linux VM that using that NIC working in promiscuous mode. Any command that could...

Hello, How can I understand if anything sending from my Linux system to other places? Consider a Spy or Keylogger program that uploading specific files to other places, how can I find it? Could...

Published at LXer: Ubuntu does not have the latest version of Krita in its repository. Let's see how to install the latest version of Krita on Ubuntu. Read More......

I have been trying to debug the following script and it is mostly complete. *Goal*: I would like to to recursively traverse my music folder for all WAV files and convert them to flac using ffmpeg...

Good day I've a laptop running CentOS 6 that I'd like to upgrade to Centos 7 or later, but an online search gives some conflicting info. On the one hand, there are sites that give fairly...

Published at LXer: The Document Foundation announced today the release and general availability of LibreOffice 7.0.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 7.0 office suite...

Hi all, while it's not Slackware related, I'm writing here trying to find a solution. I have a Pi3b ( but had this problem also on a Pi3b+ ) whee I have attached an external 1Tb HD to use as NFS...

Published at LXer: FreeIPA is an open-source integrated Identity and Authentication solution for Linux and Unix based systems. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FreeIPA server on...

Published at LXer: Also known as “defunct” or “dead” process – In simple words, a Zombie process is one that is dead but is present in the system’s process table. Ideally, it should have been...

How can i be Linux Veteran? İ started Linux with Ubuntu 14 LTS. İ used Linux from 2014 to now. Sometimes i used Windows too. İ can install Arch but cant install Gentoo. İm looking tips that improves...

Wish to set up partitions to seperate user activity. Got Peppermint-os distro with pre-installed LVM partition tool. Partitions & LVM is new to me. Noticed many people talking about Gparted. My goal...

Encrypt your disk while installing Select Installation type to encrypt your disk while installing: select “Erase disk and install Sabayon“ and check “Encrypt the new Sabayon installation for...

Published at LXer: If you have a website or run an online business, collecting data on where your visitors or customers come from, where they land on your site, and where they leave is vital. Why?...

I'm a bit clueless when it comes to mobile devices. And I was ignoring their security for too long. I have 2 Android phones that has obsolete OS'es on them one with Android 6.0 another with 8.?.?...

Published at LXer: In the world of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and service-based architectures, it's not uncommon for companies to maintain dozens or even hundreds of APIs, often spanning multiple...

Published at LXer: In today’s article, we will try to learn the different methods of running the commands with a time limit in Ubuntu 20.04. Read More......

Published at LXer: This tutorial shows you the proper steps to install the Deepin desktop environment on Ubuntu. Removal steps are also mentioned. Read More......

Is this possible? If not, alternative method?

Published at LXer: The GNOME Project released today GNOME 3.38.1 as the first point release to the latest GNOME 3.38 desktop environment series, which brings many changes and improvements. Read...

Published at LXer: Getting the right balance between security and productivity is a tricky business. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/customize-user-environments)

Does anyone have any idea how to make Firefox use Dolphin instead of Thunar as default file manager? Every time I open downloads from Firefox menu, I end up with Thunar opened instead of Dolphin,...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, you’ll learn what is apt cache, why is it used, why you would want to clean it and some other things you should know about purging apt cache in Ubuntu and other...

I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04.5 to Ubuntu 20.04. Upon new re-boot screen is unusable as it is scrambled. See attachment. I don't have a clue as to how to fix this. I can't use the machine to fix...

Published at LXer: Take a quick look at SPF and how it protects both sender and receiver from bad actors. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/spf-email-authentication)

Published at LXer: More than a decade in the marking, the Supreme Court may finally decide if application programming interfaces (APIs) can be copyrighted. If the court decides they are, everything...

Good day All, kindly note that i am new to axigen, and i have recently installed axigen 10.3.2.11 on Centos 8. Everything is working fine except that i am trying to add and configure administrative...

Published at LXer: System integrity is essential, especially when you're charged with safeguarding other people's personal details on your network. It's critical that system administrators are...

MP4 or MKV is fine VLC appears to be only able to record the screen

Is Kodachi better than these other security centred Linux Distros? Could there be a catch? https://www.digi77.com/linux-kodachi/ https://linuxhint.com/kodachi_os_review/ https://www.kali.org/...

Published at LXer: Valve released today a new Steam Client update for all supported platforms, including Linux, Mac, and Windows, with various bug fixes and other improvements to make your Steam...

I'm in the middle of this fight with a user. They keep spawning up a custom process, they wrote, using all the threads they can maxing us out and we've asked them to stop. They say ya ya and keep...

Very strange situation on Slackware-current. With libvirt-6.8.0 compiled by source. Let start bash completion Code: --------- virst st virsh start OK

Published at LXer: Is "anytime" a good time to execute your automation workflow? The answer is probably no, for different reasons.If you want to avoid simultaneous changes to minimize the impact on...

Lets take such text file named "/tmp/test": Code: --------- yyyy-1 xxxx-2 xxxx-3 zzzz-4 xxxx-5

When I try to refresh my update manager I get a screen that says... "Could not download all repository indexes The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted because of...

Hi! I'm playing around a bit with Devuan (with the Mate desktop) and I've stumbled on an annoying problem. I prefer the more compact "Main Menu" in Mate over the "Menu Bar" that is default on the...