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Hi everyone, I came here searching help or a miracle .. I have installed linux mint 20 with a Dual Boot on a toshiba satellite S55-C5262 but I have serveral issues with peripherals, as my mouse my...

# uname -a Linux myserver 4.9.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.228-1 (2020-07-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux Please note: this is Devuan, not Debian. I could not find a forum for Devuan. I know there are forums...

I need to run a loop many times, possibly hundreds. Sometime along that, one certain value may change. The loop keeps running. How do I make sure that value won't be changed again? For example: x...

Hi, i've compiled and installed Privoxy-3.0.28 on Slackware ARM-current (using a personnal SlackBuild from x86_64), that works but on next boot, a special directory (/var/run/privoxy) is removed! So...

Heya, I'm trying to get Netrunner set up on an old server (craigslist find). I was able to get it installed and running, but the OS only sees one CPU core. The system has two 771 sockets with a...

I have some .bin files containing the BIOS of many emulators, and i can't manage to see them anywhere. I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 btw.

Netdata has been running since 1 Aug however since 4 Aug it's been reporting the below: Code: --------- "3:26:49 AM",system.cpu,"10min cpu iowait",16.5%,CLEAR "3:19:49 AM",system.cpu,"10min...

I have some qif files dating from early 2010. How should I convert them to csv files please? Thanks.

I am using Linux Mint 20, Cinnamon 4.6.6 Is there any command to turn on or turn off the webcam. The method I found in https://appuals.com/enable-disable-webcam-linux/ is just too much work. ...

Published at LXer: Arne Exton released today a new version of his RaspAnd project that lets you run the latest Android 10 mobile operating system on your tiny Raspberry Pi computer. Read More......

Dear LQ, Say you want to copy /usr/share/zoneinfo inside of another directory (a jail, for context, but that's irrelevant), say /var/www/clients/client1/web5/, but you want to create all the...

Many thanks for Libreoffice 7.0. It's first rate, Eric! http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/pkg64/current/

Hi, Recently I have encountered a bug in my Linux kernel. I am trying to perform the following command in my startup script called example.sh: echo 1 > /var/opt/lab/example.log 5 out of...

Published at LXer: First woman to win the Turing Award and be made an IBM FellowFrances Allen, one of the leading computer scientists of her generation and a pioneer of women in tech, died last...

Please help me! When I went to login this morning it is suddenly not working. There is a box with my username but when I enter my password it isn't working. What do I do?

Hello, I've read somewhere about that discrete GPU can be turned off in software in GNU/Linux. I think the solution involved blacklisting nvidia graphics card driver, so that the device used the...

Hi all, I have an asus RT-AC86U router and a lot of devices connected (RPi, printer, laptop, tablet, whatever). I have a local network 192.168.x.00 and also I have a debian host where virtualbox...

Hi! Can you suggest me a resources (source code, pdf...) to build an own login manager, on web I don't find noting.

Published at LXer: Limiting distractions helps you*focus on your work so you can increase productivity. Prioritizing your tasks, especially when you have too much on your plate,*is one way to help...

Published at LXer: The development team behind the KDE neon rolling release distribution announced that they’ve rebased the entire system on the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating...

I'd like to understand how the priority of the dns servers works in the systemd resolve service. For instance, when I connect to the VPN, I get the DNS servers associated with the tun0 interface...

I'm running Linux Mint 20 x64 Cinnamon edition with Mesa driver. I have a game (Planet Coaster) that uses 90%-100% GPU at all times, even when the game is paused and in menus. It's a common issue and...

Hello all! Using a Raspberry Pi 4B (see specs below), I would like to run an automated Python script every 24 hours at night, which takes about 2 to 3 hours and eats about 120 MB of RAM. The...

Published at LXer: MongoDB is a NoSQL database that provides high performance, high availability, and automatic scaling. In this tutorial, I will guide you to install and configure MongoDB 4.4...

Hello, I'm sure this has been covered so please point me in the right direction. I've installed Ubuntu alongside Windows. I can log on and use everything. All good there. But it won't accept my...

Hello all, I've created a corosync/pacemaker cluster on Centos 8 with 3 Vmware nodes, everything runs as expected, i configured a floating ip among them, this responds well ---Quote--- pcs...

Published at LXer: Photoflare is an open source image editor that provides basic image editing features with a simple-to-use interface. Learn how to install it on Linux. Read More......

"Speed133 MB/s (32-bit at 33 MHz – the standard configuration) 266 MB/s (32-bit at 66 MHz or 64-bit at 33 MHz) 533 MB/s (64-bit at 66 MHz)" From wikipedia on PCI slots. I have an old HP desktop...

Hi! Some unknown reason slckpkg not work. I try to reinstall a fresh Slack and reuse slackpkg, but nothing to do. I follow next stpes 1 do a fresh installation 2 uncomment ---Quote---...

Published at LXer: Monitoring tools are vital and every system admin knows it. With the help of resource monitoring applications, we can continually observe the health of a system's resources when...

I have installed a new App : Quick and Easy Web Builder 7 1) It shows in the "Applications" folder file:///home/alex4buba/Desktop/applications/quick-n-easy-web-builder-7.desktop 2) I right...

Published at LXer: The open-source, free and multi-platform Darktable RAW image editor received today a new update that brings major new features and improvements, along with better camera support....

Published at LXer: If you[he]#039[/he]re the sort of person who waits until you[he]#039[/he]re sure all the bugs are out before upgrading, you[he]#039[/he]ll be glad to know that Canonical has just...

Published at LXer: There are several ways to merge and sort text files on Linux. The command you choose depends on your data and preferences. Here’s a look at some of the options. Read More......

Hello, I have an issue with my new desktop build. I'm assuming this is a software issue, but for all I know, it might be hardware? I built this new machine 2 days ago. I have 2 drives and I...

As a long time user of the 32-bit current Slackware I decided to try the 64-bit system with multilib as I need to use 32-bit Windows software. Most works well now on the 64-bit, but invoking Tina 11...

Published at LXer: Ryan Finnie announced today the release and general availability of the Debian-based Finnix 121 live Linux distro for system administrators. Read More......

How can I prevent vi/vim from adding unwanted indentations? The following happens on Ubuntu 16.04 with vim 7.4, and Ubuntu 20.04 with vim 8.1. gvim on Windows and vim on Fedora 28 work as expected...

Hi there, I posted this originally in Slackware because my problem initially seemed to be related to the Qemu 5.0.0 build for slackware-current, but my problem has changed a bit and I'm not sure if...

The database opens successfully. The query produced by my code populates the database using 'DB Browser' with no problem. Under firefox I get the error no such table 'books'.* Appreciate a solution to...

Published at LXer: Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source NoSQL database with no single point of failure. It provides linear scalability and high availability without compromising performance....

I am using Slackware 14.2 (with the latest updates installed), and I also have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Video card (with proprietary drivers installed), and I have noticed what can most accurately be...

Not a big deal really, but I can't seem to create a launcher icon on the desktop for my favorite windows text editor. It is running in wine just fine. I can run it by opening an XTerm window and...

Published at LXer: It feels like forever since I wrote my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta intro to Podman. In fact, it's been quite a while, and a lot has happened since then. Follow the...

Ok, there is this file "a" that has rwx permissions for everyone, so anyone can erase it. I use cp to create "a2". a2 is created with has similar permissions, excepted that, for some reason, it...

I have Mint 18.2 Sonya. I've been using it a while superficially. I am starting to have problems so I signed up for a Linux Mint class but lots of things aren't working as the instructor demonstrates....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine Moderna one, Pfizer one, and University of Oxford one The Pfizer one and Oxford one are doing Phase 2 and Phase 3 simultaneously. The Moderna...

Published at LXer: Check out how to handle large CSV files on Linux Command line using XSV Read More... (https://www.couponmonk.us/blog/2020/08/linux-csv-command-line-tool-xsv.html)

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Published at LXer: The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 5.73, a new major version of its open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment that adds numerous new features...