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I always build my own kernels. I have now upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04. I am trying to get a clean apt upgrade, but every time it fails trying to create tons of initrd files for long gone kernels....

I do not know why, but the Chromium browser continuously gives me the error as seen in the screen shot I've attached. If I let the browser sit there for 5 to 15 seconds, it will play the youtube...

Published at LXer: iSCSI stands for Internet Small Computer System Interface is a Storage Area Network protocol that can be used to share block devices such as HDD/SSD partitions, or LVM...

Published at LXer: UK-based laptop company Star Labs announced the pre-order of its new Linux laptop named Star Lite Mk III. Read More......

Running Manjaro Cinnamon, and I like to minimize apps to the tray, where they'll be ready to use, if not already running in the background. (I'm a bit of a lazy sort.) Original beef: Too many...

Hi all looking for advice on which laptop to buy for programming on arch linux thinkpad 53 or dell xps 13 which one would be better suited .

Hello, I run slackware 14.2 with multilib installation and installed the steam package from https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:multimedia:steam . When I run it, it greets me with a GUI where I...

Published at LXer: To the uninitiated, one glowing black screenful of green text is the same as any other glowing black screenful of green text, but many sysadmins know that the shell you choose...

Hello, I am relatively new to core installations, which do not depend on apt-get or rpm, etc. and therefore I would have succeeded, if there hadn't been compile errors with my rEFInd installation....

I am getting this error message while trying to execute Rufus in Mint 19.3. Please advise.

Published at LXer: I am a big fan of command-line applications, and I spend a lot of time working in a terminal. Terminal-based applications are, in many cases, faster, more flexible, and more...

Hello, for the 'rename' command (made in perl, i forgot where i discovered it, but i have kept it in my mail since, so i will always have it at hands, anywhere i may be; can be obtained with me or...

My problem started with my backup hdd taking a 4 foot drop to a hard floor. As expected when I powered it up it made the familiar screeching sound. My work drive is 8 TB and the backup was about 4 TB....

Published at LXer: CMS behind gov.uk and plenty more government sites worldwide promises easy upgrade from current code to new version 9.0Open-source CMS software Drupal has unveiled its first...

I use urxvt + screen + zsh. I can hit control+shit+numbers to enter unicode characters. Most seem to display correctly. Some randomly do not. Example, unicode checkmark: U+2713 ✔ If a program...

Hello, I want to auto mount 2 NTFS partition on startup. I used to do it from KDE's system settings but it is not woking anymore. Thank you.

Published at LXer: Meet Planner, an open-source GTD (Getting Things Done) and to-do list application that will keep your life more organized and help you achieve your goals. Read More......

Can someone tell me which one is a better purchase? I've heard of Crucial before, and I never heard of a Sabrent. If you look at the number of reviews in the screenshot, more people are leaving...

Good morning/afternoon/evening, I'm having an issue with pandoc/wkhtmltopdf on Slackware. When trying to convert from markdown to pdf via html (so that I can use css), I get extra unwanted line...

I'm was trying to download steam on Kali Linux before I switched to Linux pop os and it wouldn't let me download it. I searched around on the internet for an answer as to why it wasn't working and...

my situation is as follows. I have a samba server running 14.2 fully patched which works fine for ip4 networking. in fact my isp only offers ip4 connections so any ip6 traffic is local. the server...

Published at LXer: WordPress is a free and open-source CMS based on the PHP programming language, with MySQL being used for the backend where the data is stored. Used by millions of people, it is...

First time poster, short time Linux user (about a 9 mos). I'm having trouble getting my Linux Mint 20 Cinammon OS to recognize an external monitor. I've tried multiple monitors and HDMI cords, to no...

I've recently come across numerous videos suggesting the importance of additional hardening w.Firejail or Apparmor. One, the other or both? https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=MVLrclfbS4U...

I'm using RHEL 7 with firewalld. I set up iptables TRACE. How can I save the iptables TRACE since I'm using firewalld? Without using iptables TRACE, is there a way to trace which iptable chain/rule...

Insightful YouTube video on snaps from the channel TLG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x9IZZfuKmc

Hello, I use to have Kubuntu 18.04.4 LTS and OpenSuse Tumbleweed on the same HDD, as a dual boot. I deleted the Kubuntu 18.04.3 LTS partiion and created a logical partition for / and a swap...

Hello. I'm looking for a tutorial or tool that help me to make the ISO bootable image of my current windows 10 installation (GPT style partition) ,as is,preserving all the settings,users,installed...

Published at LXer: Virtualization Technology enables your processor to act as a number of independent computer systems. This enables several operating systems to be running on the same machine at...

I'm running Linux mint Debian on my desktop and I see so many blogs on you need an antivirus and I was understanding you do not need one

On one particular site https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ the vertical scroll bar only appears as the page is being refreshed and then dissapears, so I cannot scroll the page, no bar to select and the...

Published at LXer: Starting today, there’s a VPN on the market from a company you trust. The Mozilla VPN (Virtual Private Network) is now available on Windows and Android devices. This fast and...

Good day! I did a manual upgrade yesterday to Linux Mint 20 from 19/3. All when well and everything for the most part is great. All but one thing. When I am creating a thumbnail current Gimp...

I m windows user, working with fortran, Ansys etc. We have a cluster, based on SLES 11.1. My task is installing CodeBlocks(fortran IDE) and Double Commander. Because I"m not linuxoid there is a quest:...

Hi There, I am trying to find if a file is available on the particular website. Typically it is an .mp3. If it is available, I wish to action a command, likewise if not available - either exit...

Published at LXer: Public education has always been a core value in my family. It was instilled in me from a young age that everybody deserves fair access to high-quality education. This virtue...

A few of the keys on my keyboard are awkwardly assigned: thus, the double-apostrophe key is "@", and the @ key - i.e. Shift-1 - is the double-apostrophe. I'd like to swap these. Also, the "pipe"...

Published at LXer: For this week’s blog, I’ve run a variety of benchmarking tests on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC together with three other systems to put the results into context. Read More......

Hi! Slackware64-current (15.7.2020) slackpkg+ configured on november 2019 when installed. repositories: multilib ktown, alienbob restricted mirrors:...

Published at LXer: Today, we’ll take you in a detailed review of Axelor; An open source business platform system that was released as open source in 2012. Read More......

This confusing contradiction needs some expert explaining it; Ungoogled-chrome's author claims that he made chromium browser, ie. browser based on chromium an open-source code based on blink engine...

Hi all, since the recent upgrade to vim-8.2.1167, the set noai option in .vimrc seems to be ignored. :set does not show it anymore. Other options from .vimrc are working fine. I can :set noai...

Published at LXer: Whether you're starting up an elaborate Raspberry Pi homelab or you're managing a building full of workstations, sometimes you need to do the same task on multiple hosts. There...

Hi, I setup passwordless between to centos 7 servers and this work fine almost all the time using user test on both. From time to time i am required to input password when i connect with ssh. After...

Published at LXer: We*can*restrict a*Pod*to only be able to run on a particular*Node. In this article, we will create pods to see them get deployed on the worker as well as the master node, then we...

*Happy birthday Slackware Linux!* 27 years young today and still going strong! :thumbsup: :D Thanks very much to Patrick and the Slackware team.

Published at LXer: How to keep your data safe when you’re in an uncontrolled environment. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/suddenly-remote)

I have second hard disk on my laptop Thinkpad T420 on which i installed Debian 10 from netinst iso. During the installation i created one 400mb partition for /boot and one 50GB partition for root. I...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will show you several different ways to find the number of files in a directory in Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: The Mozilla Thunderbird 78 open-source email client is now available as a major update with several new features and improvements. Read More......