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I read several times of laptops being sold loaded with ubuntu. I have been searching and what I found is laptops from Dell and Lenovo that come with windows and they tell you how to install ubuntu. I...

Hey guys, I was just listening to one of the podcasts I follow and was surprised to know Unraid is based on Slackware :) In Self-Hosted episode 25 (https://selfhosted.show/25) one of the Unraid...

Published at LXer: Writing is one of the primary ways we communicate, and it[he]#039[/he]s endlessly fascinating to see the different ways writers work. I can hardly imagine writing before...

Published at LXer: Here are some of my most frequently used commands in the Vim text editor. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/vim-commands)

Published at LXer: Canonical released today Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS as the fifth and last planned point release in the long-term supported Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system series. ...

Published at LXer: With more big international players on board, the foundation's new head of technology sees signs of "state of the art moving forward." Read More......

Published at LXer: Matomo formerly known as Piwik is a free and open-source web analytics application that helps you to tracks online-visitors on your website. In this tutorial, we will show you...

Published at LXer: It[he]#039[/he]s not just Google that[he]#039[/he]s trying to get a handle on earthquakes. The Linux Foundation and partners are working on an open-source earthquake early...

Published at LXer: The Document Foundation released today LibreOffice 6.4.6 as the sixth of seven maintenance update to the LibreOffice 6.4 office suite series, adding more bug fixes and...

Published at LXer: Are you an Ubuntu Linux user on either Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy - unreleased, in testing) or 20.04 LTS (Focal - the current release)? The Ubuntu Foundations Team needs feedback on...

Let's say you're developing software for some special purposes, and you're deploying it on your own machine, on a remote location (perhaps behind a firewall). You're using [GNU-slash-]Linux as your...

install slackware64-current, meet WARNNING: NO ROOT PASSWORD DETECTED. Press "Yes" to set a root password. but i got a error: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error passwd: password...

Hi all Linux Gurus, I am a fairly new Linux user and have been dabbling a bit in Linux for the past couple of months or so, on a light usage basis. I have some questions which I hope to learn. I...

I get the impresion that I don't need it, BUT? How come? Are there any packages used by people in the group? Would like to hear from them Thank you Alex

Hi, At 5 am under free column (from free -mh command) was 1 G and at 6 am under free column was 11g.No command was given between 5am and 6am and nothing started by cron. Is possible that the OS to...

What is the correct method for enabling triple-buffering for an nVidia 260 video card?

Please bear with me - I'm an old hand but I guess mental capabilities are getting short. So here's my problem: 1) I have one of these new-fangled micro 'desktops', cool li'l thing with 8 Gb of...

Will there be a 5.2.0 release?...Since Ubuntu just released 18.04.5

I'm hosting a website on my Ubuntu Server. The website is up and running. I created an A record in GoDaddy.com to point the namespace to my public IP. All this is good but I'm only using port 80...

I would like to know what the difference is between x1 and x16? This is from wikipedia regarding the PCIe16 slot: PCI Express logo Year created2003; 17 years ago Created by IntelDellHPIBM...

I had the p104 in Pci slot 1 and everything was fine, even had 2 p104's in from failed sli, still fine. When i put a p102 in alone as an upgrade, needed to setup with p104 in then swap cards, but...

hi, i bought a oneplus 8 5g from sprint today and i am trying to root it before i load my stuff to it (the bootloader menu mentions its product name is kona). when i go to developer options, i am...

Hi, I downloaded Electrum wallet (https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/network/Electrum/) along with its sources, ran Electrum.SlackBuild , got message ---Quote--- Slackware package...

How to make PS1 string always reevaluated each time user input enter key on shell prompt ? as Code: --------- n=A; PS1="$n" n=B ---------

Hi: The following is from /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Code: --------- ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### menuentry 'Slackware 14.2 x86_64 (post 14.2 -current) (on /dev/mmcblk0p2)' --class slackware...

Published at LXer: With travel and in-person gatherings made difficult by COVID-19, Red Hat is now offering certification testing online – and using a unique solution to deter cheating. Read...

Published at LXer: For years, Facebook has relied on Linux and open-source software. Now it[he]#039[/he]s taking a leading role in The Linux Foundation. Most web-based companies are built on Linux...

I am a long time member, but I have never been active on this forum. I have been using Ubuntu Linux since 2008, and I love it. I can't imagine going back to Windows, but sometimes... My biggest...

Hi, I've been following this guide (https://talk-about-it.ca/setup-bind9-with-isc-dhcp-server-dynamic-host-registration/#setup-dhcp) in order to have my DHCP leases automatically mapped to my DNS...

This would be great. I know somebody works with these scripts and uses them all the time. My problem is I don’t. Thank you for reading!

Published at LXer: Merging together a solid Ubuntu 20.04 LTS foundation and the latest KDE Plasma packages, KDE neon has a fresh rebase out for you to try out. So what exactly is it? Is it another...

I would like to know if anyone else uses the same type of Acer computer [Aspire-XC-603] and has the same problem with running Firefox. It periodically freezes. I was told it has something to do with...

Slackware64 current (july 2020) Kernel 5.4.50 Hi: Code: --------- bill@darkstar:/debian/cine/The Prince (2014) [1080p]$ cat ~/.bashrc [[ -s /etc/profile.d/autojump.sh ]] && source...

Hi, I'm running Slackware linux on a 32-bit laptop and just installed the Armagetronad SlackBuild, including all its dependencies using sbopkg. But in trying to run armagetronad or...

Hello everybody. Nice to meet you all. I recently installed manjaro and also downloaded wine to install a windows program I being requested to use. The program is called manycam. I have tried...

I am using the libzip library. I just want to extract the contents into a directory. I have no problem opening the archive, getting the number of files in the archive, using a for loop for the...

I am trying to verify an SSL certificate. But when I do that I get an error and then a usage appears: Code: --------- openssl x509 -in openssl x509 -in server_certificate.pem -text -noout -text...

I want to replace several sets of hex and ASCII characters in all the files in a folder. For example, 0a replaced by 2c, 5e replaced by 0a, ,T replaced by , and so on. The replacements can be...

Published at LXer: In this article we will learn how to add the Trashcan to the Activities panel in the Debian system. We will create a script to add the trash can to the list of applications and...

So I'm trying to build python-poppler-qt5 on slackware current. (Frescobaldi 3 needs this for PDF viewing.) python-poppler-qt5: https://github.com/frescobaldi/python-poppler-qt5 Original...

Using an Xbox one controller, how well would it work in Linux regarding latency over Bluetooth? In windows it requires using the Microsoft Bluetooth receiver, is this also necessary in Linux and would...

I'm using manjaro gnome and I have an ssd for mass storage. When I want to access it, it prompts me for the admin password. Is there a way to automate/avoid this?

OK so I'm having a weird issue while trying to install from a live image. I don't know that it matters, but the operating system is Parrot. See screenshot below, on the left is the (correct,...

Hi, XRANDR 1.5 has been around for a while but still the main window managers don't support it's features. Recently I bought an ultrawide and have found it to be unuseable on Linux. The problem, is...

Hello all, In my bash script, I want to check if array has values. If it does, I want to pass it to a function. This is a sample code of that. Code: --------- #!/bin/bash

Hi all, We have a cifs share mounted on the linux server with the user as below mount -t cifs /tmp/data /xxx/xxx/data -o user=tobhia,password=welcome123,domain=xxxx How can i check if the...

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Hi, So long story short, due to issues with running a debian container in LXC, i have to make some changes to the config file to make it run. Now, that's not so bad, but every time it updates, my...

Hi guys, I think KDE5 is one big milestone for Slack15. Trying to figure out where we are with this atm in changelog but I do not know the big picture. I guess PAM and Qt5 were prereqs for this....

How to configure SpamAssasin so that logs contain username? spamd log here contains only 'user=(unknown)' for each entry. There is message id field, but then I'd have to look it up on other computer....