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Published at LXer: Diaspora is an open source, privacy-aware, and distributed social network. It consists of a group of independently deployed and owned nodes which interoperate to create the...

I figure there must be some programs out there to protect linux distros from malware and other bad things. I would like recommendations, please. Thank You!

Published at LXer: PINE64 and the Manjaro Community announced today that next Community Edition of the PinePhone Linux phone will be powered by the Arch Linux-based Manjaro operating system. ...

I have a fresh install of fedora 32 fully up to date. I am on a dual monitor system and I am finding that file and print dialogs appear on the wrong monitor. At times so do some programs. Let me...

there's an error on my home/etc/apt/sourceslist that wont let me update. I need to remove a bad repository.list but I cant do it logged into my login. So I need to login as root, and for some reason...

Published at LXer: Many students are used to the bell ringing to signal the beginning of each school day, class changes, and dismissal time. There's no feeling quite like that last bell at the end...

Hi, My website was hosted on a GoDaddy Windows server and I had a working contact form which was great. I have now got that website up and running on GoDaddy's Gen4 VPS Ubuntu 16.04 The problem...

Published at LXer: If your website uses Apache and SSL, there's not much reason to keep using HTTP with your website. Having both HTTP and HTTPS just creates duplicate content, as now any given...

Just read about all the changes coming up in the next Windows update... and I thought "I can't take this anymore". Hopefully I won't need it again... although I doubt it. There are some programs that...

Hello everyone, I am trying to install latest version of Arch Linux. Basic installation goes fine and I am able to download all the packets. However when I try to start basic installation network...

Published at LXer: The sshpass utility helps administrators more easily manage SSH connections in scripts. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/ssh-automation-sshpass)

Guys, I want to access "sssd" directory but am not able under root (Ubunto). There are logs in that directory I want to access. Do I put myself in the "sssd" group? What is the appropriate way...

I run Debian buster with the Mate desktop - recently upgraded from stretch. If I launch mate-search-tool from the panel, I get the message "No files found". I experimented with launching from the...

Published at LXer: The development looks promising as KDE Plasma 5.20 adds more super cool features such as warning about your hard disk or SSD failure, etc as the team prepares for the upcoming...

Studying law in the United States is altogether different from considering law in numerous different nations. In different nations, understudies start their law concentrates quickly following...

I installed dnsmasq on a debian 10.04 machine created in VMware. I set two interfaces for it: the first one (ens33) in bridge mode with my physical LAN; the second one (ens37) as a gateway for the...

Published at LXer: After being announced by the Fedora Linux team back in April, the rollout of Fedora across Lenovo laptops appears to have begun along with a sale. Read More......

I have a bash script which contains this select loop: Code: --------- echo 'Are the above scripts safe?' select answer in Build Skip; do case "$answer" in Build) ...

After installing Elementary OS and setting it up, I logged into my WD My Cloud using the usual username and password and checked the box to always remember. However on restart, it always asks me to...

I tried to install current from DVD and after a few packages get installed, the rest of the packages fail to install with an "error 1". It says the media is corrupt or disk is full. I "df -h" and...

Hi, I am trying to mount an old hard drive, the HDD is connected via USB. Usually they mount automatically however, with this one it refuses to mount. This is the output for fdisk. Any help will...

Published at LXer: For those who don’t know, Google Chrome is built on the top of the Google Chromium browser, which is an open source browser released under BSD license having almost the same...

Which python3 module is most appropriate for scheduling a variable to be *True* during a certain time interval and *False* the rest of the time? Additionally, I am also looking for capabilities...

One of the things I like about OpenBSD is its inclusion of LibreSSL to replace OpenSSL. According to Void Linux, it's a lot more secure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed However, upon...

Lenovo T500 THINKPAD and Vodafone R216H wifi modem with Debian 9 and MATE This laptop used to automatically detect the wifi modem but refuses to do so now saying Code: --------- wifi is...

I'm looking to create a multiboot system where I can boot from Windows as well as a number of Linux distros and BSD variants. I hope to be able to install FreeBSD and any variants, including...

Hello. I've been using Linux for over two years now and I am avidly learning more and more about it. I have taken an interest in Slackware and played around with it for a bit. I would like make...

I've been able to setup hostapd.conf so it can setup either a PSK AP: Code: --------- interface=uap0 driver=nl80211 ssid=MyPskAp hw_mode=g channel=6

Published at LXer: Fedora Project’s leader Matthew Miller announced today on Twitter that the first (of many to come) laptop from Lenovo with Fedora Linux pre-installed is now available for sale,...

I'm currently trying to setup a fake second monitor to run a VNC client fullscreen in, which will connect to my laptop, so my laptop effectively turns into a second screen for my desktop. However I...

This is working: ---Quote--- gfortran -fPIC -ffree-line-length-0 -o fm-forces types_and_constants.o sgsym.o commod.o fm-forces.f90 /usr/lib64/liblapack.so.3 /usr/lib64/libblas.so.3 ---End...

Published at LXer: When a novel coronavirus made headlines earlier this year, the world wasn[he]#039[/he]t ready. In a short period of time, we all witnessed the consequences of having a global,...

How in the hell do I get stuff to work on here? I think my main problem is I know NOTHING about Linux. Not to mention I've used Windows my whole life. I've tried reading all of the getting started...

I have setup the ubuntu multiboot as below , but the font is very small. ubuntu advance options for ubuntu windows boot manager UEFI firemware settings Want to ask 1) how to change the...

Hi all, *Intro:* I was playing around with terminal themes on Fedora 32 - using Gnome-Terminal. I must of done something while installing some themes from git. *Issue:* When I load a...

Published at LXer: Microservices and GraphQL are*a great combination, like bread and butter. They[he]#039[/he]re both great on their own and even better together. Knowing the health of your...

Have: a file in which every line contains a single word. Have: n, a positive integer. Want: an OutFile identical to the InFile except the n-th character in every word is made UPPER CASE. ...

Hi there, I am running Linux Mint Debian Edition with Mate desktop on a small notebook, since it has basic resolution of 1366x768 the taskbar is over congested with minimized icons, I wonder if...

Published at LXer: Valve released today a new major update to their Steam Client for Linux, Mac, and Windows platforms, adding a whole bunch of new features and improvements for a better gaming...

The XFS File System Reorganizer has a parameter "-p N", and N defaults to 10. However, on both my laptop and my Raspberry Pi (32-bit systems), the pass number is clearly corrupted. Normally, the...

Like to send a great big THANK YOU to the SBO Team for getting the updates back on line Thanks John

Hi all, Last year I bought a Razer Basilisk mouse and I quickly found out that there is no onboard memory for storing color profiles and such, everything is done through software. I found the...

Windows is saying my new hdd I added to my Samba share, is already using 373gb out of 7.21TB. I have another 8TB the same exact model on my windows desktop, and it's currently 984 GB free of 7.27TB. ...

I need the username and password for the ubuntu gamepack ,live dvd

Published at LXer: This tutorial explains the process of installing one of the most popular open source application for managing MySQL databases – phpMyAdmin. phpMyAdmin is a free and open source...

I am totally new, I have debian installed on a raspberry Pi and did this 3 years ago, now need to use it, but want to get the latest updates, so now what? could not find any commands that were for...

Hello, I have a RHEL 7.2 NIS client. Since past few days, users are complaining about intermittent slow output while running few commands and login. I ran "id -a jpeter" every second in a loop. After...

Hi there! I used to make weekly backups with rsync, that was under Debian 7 and Slackware 14. A few weeks ago I installed Debian 10 and made a fresh complete backup of my home directory to a new...

Published at LXer: It took a few releases, but the free, open-source and cross-platform Thunderbird email client, news and chat client is now shipping with OpenPGP support enabled by default in the...

Where can I get PyQt5 (5.13.2) from?