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Sometimes I'm worried about getting a concussion from how hard I'm slapping my forehead dealing with some "IT professionals". I work in crime prevention and as everything else, the security systems...

Hello, Which Linux filesystem is OK for an external HDD? Thank you.

Published at LXer: First notice that we are installing on Ryzen box with board MSI X570 A-PRO in UEFI mode with "kvm" enabled.First of all we intend to verify that kvm has been enabled $ dmesg |...

How to do or execute a readline function inside bash script as do mimic actual key press ? such as previous-history, or previous-history repeated thrice, etc etc

I am working with KDE / Plasma 5 Here is my job description for the daily backup Code: --------- #!/bin/bash #get day of week

I'm still pretty new to linux and trying to get into the networking side. I know there are plenty of tutorials for setting up servers but none really say why you're doing what they say . Is anyone...

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Hello Slackware Forum I use linphone everyday, and the slackbuild for it now fails. So while I wait for a response from the slackbuild maintainer, I thought I would try to build an updated more...

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Hello, I am new to this forum and am trying to break into security. I have seen a lot of Linux pop up in my research so I would like to expand my understanding in that arena.

I would like to try out the old-school way of handling multiple monitors with X - where each screen is separate, with a different $DISPLAY value (the first screen is :0.0, the second is :0.1 and so...

Hello everyone, I hope this is the right forum for this question So yesterday Gparted started giving me this error as soon as the program starts up "Partition(s) 4, 5, 6, ... 128 on /dev/sda...

Hello all, I'm trying to shrink my main Linux partition by 60GB (my computer is set up in a dual boot). I'm using a Gparted live USB. Whenever I try and resize the partition I'm getting an error that...

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I've been a Linux user for many years, but I'm not technically oriented. In the past, I've used OpenSuse, Linux Mint, and spent most of my time happily using PCLinuxOS. Recently, I purchased a 2 year...

Can I have Linux installed on a AMD a6-9225 Radeon R4? Need suggestions.

Published at LXer: The lightweight desktop environment Xfce project announced the details about the next version Xfce 4.16. Here we take a look at the new features and release dates. Read...

I really do enjoy the weather thread (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/a-change-in-the-weather-4175674306/) for taking a moment in getting to know the members of this community...

This is a bit academic/hypothetical question (because I don't have all the hardware in-hand), but I'm just wondering if there's documentation or anyone has experience with MST (Multi-Stream Transport)...

I am creating an account today on https://docs.slackware.com. I am not familiar with how these wiki's work atm, though it shouldn't take very long. I will spend some time on here learning how the...

We get new accounts posting strange "I was hacked" threads fairly regularly, and I'm honestly starting to wonder if it's just a coincidence. I mean (hint, hint) I can't look at the post IPs. ...

My computer's CPU doesn't support VT-x. Can I still run a virtual machine? If I can't, is there something I can buy that will allow me to virtualize. T

Details: LFS 10.0, sysvinit version. Everything works at boot except the console! The console init script gives me a FAIL message. Virtual consoles are set up in spite of this, but with a US keyboard....

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54142567 Any thoughts?

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Hello everybody: I made a program to convert any integer double number into a floating point one, so that --in a later program- it will be use as an FP operand into an arithmetic operation with...

not able to install make file cp Makefile.install_ucb Makefile ~/rw05/src$ make all make: *** No rule to make target 'all'. Stop. ~/rw05/src$ make mkdir -p /bin mkdir -p /font mkdir...

I need to reset my Samsung smartphone (Samsung A 10, Android 10). I remember the Email I used to access the device. But I don't remember the password. If I reset my device, can I log in to it using a...

I updated my slackware-current install today and slackpkg install-new installed thunar but when I tried to to run the application I get the error: thunar: error while loading shared libraries:...

I created a folder called 'drive2' in my home directory. I then modified /etc/fstab to mount a disk partition using drive2 as the mount point. Having done that, drive2 has acquired owner and group...

I was moving through a number of pages returned by a search -- on page 4 of 21 -- and when I attempted to move to page "5", I got a message saying, essentially, "No results. Please enter something to...

Published at LXer: Development of the upcoming Xfce 4.16 desktop environment is progressing nicely, and now that the first preview release hit the streets, it’s time to look at the major new...

For half a year I have been using this operating system on a phone that I specifically bought for the purpose (*). I have been dreaming of "real" GNU/Linux on a smartphone for years, and this is...

Hi, Recenly, I have installed Debian 10 with Gnome, KDE and Cinnamon desktop environment just to check which one I will be more conformable with. Everything is fine with all the environments....

Hi, Recenly, I have installed Debian 10 with Gnome, KDE and Cinnamon desktop environment just to check which one I will be more conformable with. Everything is fine with all the environments....

Hi, Recenly, I have installed Debian 10 with Gnome, KDE and Cinnamon desktop environment just to check which one I will be more conformable with. Everything is fine with all the environments....

Hello, How can I find the Default Gateway and Subnet Mask of a remote computer? Any CLI tool? Thank you.

I have a USB Wi-Fi network card that I want to use as a Wi-Fi access point. When I configure the card to work on a channel in the radar band (namely, channels 52, 100, 116, 132), "hostapd" exits with...

I have one machine which chugs along rather easily running WordPress, with load average: 1.01, 0.97, 0.96 ... most of the time. However, sometimes it gets maxed out under heavy loads. How...

I am in China. That slows things down. For blocked sites I can use Astrill to access them. I don't know if Astrill will reroute pip3 install commands. Doesn't look like it. ---Quote---...

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Latest-greatest 20.4 Ubuntu Movement is fine but unable to click and select anything. A reboot fixed it until the next time. Tried various mice to no avail. I also have CentOS and Fedora...

Hello, I have a list of over 5,000 German vocabulary words, each preceded by a number. There is no punctuation in the file whatsoever, just number - space - word - space - number - word, etc., as...

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I upgraded gwenview and I am receiving an error message: gwenview: symbol lookup error: gwenview: undefined symbol: _ZNK10FitsPlugin12capabilitiesEP9QIODeviceRK10QByteArray Any ideas?

I'm running Slackware current on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 8 (aka X1C8). The only way I've been able to get the speakers + microphone working is with a 5.8 kernel and the SOF firmware. The 5.8...

I am facing an issue, which is NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup. The system hangs up and can not be reached via any terminal and ping command. The issue happens in a virtual machine. Host CPU...

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Hello, I recently purchased a workstation that included an NVIDIA Quadro P2000. I've installed Slackware64 -current on it, and ensured it is up to date. I installed the latest, short-lived NVIDIA...

I have a bit of a problem getting this to work. I have 2 key slots on my luks, one for passphrase, another for a keyfile. here is my : cat /etc/crypttab Code: --------- sda5_crypt...