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A friend recently recommended me a Wifi adapter as I need a stronger signal in my dorm room. I haven't had much experience with wireless adapters before but I ended up getting was the Alfa Network...

Published at LXer: Zim is an impressive cross-platform, open source note taking app for users who want a wiki-style collection of their notes, tasks, or ideas. Read More......

I need to create more space for my home partition: Output from `df -h` ``` devtmpfs 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 2.9G 33M...

Not much more than that other than I plan to experiment with network monitoring software and maybe an analyzer.

My Lenovo laptop's AMD Radeon discrete GPU has recently blown up. There's no entry in BIOS settings to turn off the discrete GPU so I used a LiveUSB and added "radeon.modeset=0" in default GRUB...

Hello all I would like to install vagrant with libvirt module and cannot install it. Does somebody has any idea? I googled but couldn't find the solution. [root@localhost ~]# vagrant...

Published at LXer: Inkscape, the powerful, free, open source and multi-platform SVG graphics editor, has a new release, version 1.0.1, which doubles as the first point release in the Inkscape 1.0...

Hi everyone! I am running Adelie Linux, an independent distro based on musl and openRC as service manager, on a x86_64 laptop. My desktop environment is KDE Plasma 5.18. When the system is shutting...

Good day guys. VirtScreen is an app that allows you to use your phone as an extended display This can be useful for a whole slew of reasons like Viewing system usage while working on the...

Published at LXer: Today, Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker published an open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, urging her to seize a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity to...

I am trying to install WRF model on centOS 7. The user manual says that I have to set certain paths. How to do that ? On searching the google, it says to do it by .bashrc file, but whats that ? I am...

I am now with KDE-Plasma 20.04 and being a Desktop machine, it is not always ON, so at times, my Cron job is not executing. So, following suggestion here in the forum, I am trying to setup a...

I won't say that this is a must read; what I say is that it is the minimum to read. ...

Hello, How do we configure CentOS 8 to get package updates through a proxy server? I was thinking this was a bit different than CentOS 7. Thanks in advance.

Published at LXer: 'Best approximation of C++ ideals so far,' says Stroustrup - but is it too big and complex? C++ 20, the latest version of the venerable object-oriented programming language, has...

We went to Norfolk's Gardens by the Sea (https://norfolkbotanicalgarden.org/) today. I was wearing a Linux tee shirt which pictured a thoroughly besotted Tux, surrounded by empty bottles, with the...

I want to completely block access to waterfox.net in iptables. I used these rules: Code: --------- iptables -A INPUT -s 51.159.31.11 -j DROP iptables -A OUTPUT -d 51.159.31.11 -j DROP...

Hello, In Windows OS, a tool like VMMap https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/vmmap exist that optimize application's memory resource usage. How about Linux? Any tool that clean...

GIMP has some default shortcuts for zoom levels that are in the form of "Shift+[0-9]", e.g. "Shift+5" and "Shift+4". But when I try to enter the key combination "Shift+4", for example, it registers...

Published at LXer: Vivaldi browser released its latest version 3.3 with a pause mode which stops all internet activity with just a click of a button. Read More......

Published at LXer: VLC is one of the most popular open-source multimedia players. It is cross-platform and can play virtually all multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, and different...

I'd really like to switch to Wayland, but the issue of screen recording is holding me back. The desktop screencast plugin is super laggy, you can see in this video...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we will see what is Flatpak, how to install Flatpak on Linux and then how to use Flatpak command line user interface to install applications. Read More......

Hi, I would like to listen to a radio stream broadcast from the UK. The problem is that this a simple stream. There is no catch up facility. You have to listen from the stream as it is broadcast. ...

Hi, I’m running transmission-daemon on my Ubuntu server (Ubuntu 20.04.1) and am able to control it from my laptop (KDE Neon/Ubuntu 20.04 base) via the web interface at http://192.168.1.46:9091...

Published at LXer: Sensu is a free and open-source tool used for monitoring infrastructure and application health. It is one of the most popular and next-generation platforms that replaces other...

I want to do more testing with Slackware now that I'm getting more used to it in my first week (still have a long way to go). This is mainly a theoretical _*discussion / suggestion*_ thread. ...

Hello all! *_TL;DR version_ - only read the bold print* I've been searching for a while, but I'm a fish out of water on this one. *This community has*, over the years, *been the* friendliest...

Published at LXer: Vivaldi Technologies launched today Vivaldi 3.3 with various improvements and new additions to the already feature-full web browser based on the open-source Chromium project. ...

*Symptom* Upgrading from a WQHD ViewSonic display to a giant 4K UHD ViewSonic display yields a No Signal error (via HDMI) after my workstation successfully makes it through GRUB and Plymouth screens....

I see that typically you are supposed to mount the individual partitions in the file using offsets. But kpartx is supposed to do it automatically. But when I use kpartx on a .img file just one...

Hi everybody! I could successfully compile and run the slackbuilds.org Electrum version 3.3.8. Today, I've tried to upgrade to the last available version 4.0.2 not yet on slackbuilds.org. I could...

Published at LXer: One of Linux[he]#039[/he]s most appealing features is the ability to skillfully use a computer with nothing but commands entered into the keyboard—and better yet, to be able to...

Published at LXer: SUSE chap wants Linux and classic AmigaOS to coexist peacefullyThe Amiga Fast File System (AFFS) is making a minor comeback in the new version of the Linux kernel.… Read...

I recently migrated a system that uses gpg2. The problem is that whenever I run gpg2 it always asks me for the master passphrase. I have set it to be cached (as before) but gpg isn't caching the...

This is at the 'thought experiment' stage, and I'm not running a serious experiment. The genesis of this is that I want to have some data available on both a RazPi, and a linux box, and I wondered...

Published at LXer: openSUSE-based GeckoLinux distribution has launched two new editions featuring the Budgie and Pantheon desktop environments, based on both openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed. Read...

...so I can't make it the default. Anybody know why?

An auto clicker (https://www.autoclicker.today/) is a type of software or macro that can be used to automate clicking. They can be triggered to generate input that was recorded earlier or generated...

_debian buster _ *_QUESTION UPDATED - PLEASE RE-READ!!! _*Thanks. The 'checksum' in the "checksum text document" that automatically downloads with the iso image - is this the _*online...

If I download a linux os onto an infected computer, and then burn the os to a READ-ONLY dvd, and the checksum is accurate, is there a chance that the dvd is actually infected with malware?

Hi all! I have limited the intel C-states in grub2 with: Code: --------- intel_idle.max_cstate=1 --------- which works very well.

Published at LXer: RT-Thread is an open source real-time operating system*used for programming Internet of Things (IoT) devices.*FinSH is RT-Thread's command-line component, and it provides a set...

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Published at LXer: eDEX-UI is an open source terminal emulator and system monitor which does things very different. It’s inspired by the TRON Legacy movie effects. Read More......

Clamav needs a " shared library " package to read the scan but I do not have any idea of what to look for in the massive package database. Can you please inform me which one it is? Thanks.

When partitioning a HDD for slackware 32 bit, how big should home and root be? I understand swap. And which is bootable, home or root? I think it is root? And the size is determined by the amount of...

$ ifconfig enp2s0: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet 172.16.31.51 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 172.16.31.255 inet6 fe80::f94e:4c89:b31c:3afb ...

Published at LXer: Linux Torvalds announced the availability of the latest Linux Kernel release candidate 5.9-rc4 for the upcoming Linux Kernel 5.9. Read More......