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I’m a senior and have minimal knowledge of computers (so please talk to me like a 3rd grader). I’ve been using Windows 7 for a few years and want to switch to Linux Mint. I managed to download a...

Published at LXer: On this episode Michael covers Krita 4.3, FFmpeg 4.3, FreeNAS coming to Linux, postmarketOS Community Edition PinePhone from Pine64 and so much more! Read More......

Published at LXer: Apache Hadoop is an open-source framework used to manage, store and process data for various big data applications running under clustered systems. In this tutorial, we will...

Any genre and suggest how many you want, as long as it’s from 2020. Bonus points if it’s from indie artist(s)! I’m really into darksynth/retrowave, so here’s three of my heavy rotations from...

Hello All, It used to be that I had an option to open an Xterm terminal when I run startxwin. Now, for some reason the option has disappeared. There is still an option to open up a Terminal window...

Published at LXer: If you have a need for speed, you need to consider the switch to SSDs. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/solid-state-disks-ssd)

All, I have 4 drives on my system. They are" ---Quote--- 1. /dev/sda: Main root drive 2. /dev/sdb: 3T Files drive 3. /dev/sdc: USB Backup drive 4. /dev/sdd: USB Flash drive ---End Quote---

Like the title says, I want to create a desktop and/or panel shortcut to a website URL. In other distros it was a matter of dragging the URL from Firefox to the desktop, or right-clicking on the...

Published at LXer: Sometimes you need to manually assign CPU cores to programs in order to gain the best performance. Learn how you can use taskset to do that in Linux. Read More......

Hey! My cousin uses Solus Mate and when she leaves her laptop for a while it suspend and log out, it's annoying bcs it's not a good laptop and it takes time to log in again. Of course i tried to...

Are you proficient at installing/configuring the following software on Ubuntu 18.04? - Apache (with SSL Certificate for a specific domain) - ".htaccess" file support required - MySQL - PHP -...

Running this script to start the Pulseaudio Equalizer at startup and minimize it to the tray. I need a switch to also turn it on, to lazily avoid doing it manually. Code: --------- #!/bin/bash...

Published at LXer: IEI’s rugged, Linux-ready “TANK-880-Q370” runs on 8th/9th Gen Coffee Lake CPUs and offers HDMI and DP, 3x GbE, 6x USB, 3x serial, 4x SATA, 4x PCIe, 3x M.2, and a mini-PCIe slot....

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Published at LXer: The*Homebrew project began its life as an unofficial Linux-style package manager for the Mac. Its users quickly fell in love with its friendly interface and helpful prompts,...

Published at LXer: Canonical and Dell announced today that the powerful Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition Linux laptop is now available certified and pre-loaded with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Read More......

Published at LXer: In this article, we will explain how to sync your Ubuntu system time with internet time servers both through the command line and the GUI. Read More......

My CD ripping script was happily humming along until FreeDB shutdown some time back. Fortunately, the GNU folks assumed that role and adding command line options to point to the GNU version (and port)...

ubuntu no lomger includes polarr my favorite photo editing application. When I do a search I find a site that looks like I can download it. But when I click on download I I get a site that says "this...

Dear Team, Appreciate your quick support on below error message while booting. Operating system - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server error message - starting switch boot ... 7 .075405] ...

With linux 5.6.0-0.bpo.2-amd64, while booting it is stuck at "waiting for /dev to be fully populated...(time out)". There is no such issue with kernel -4.19.0-9-amd64. I am just trying the...

Published at LXer: If you've ever written code, whether it's a shell script, a Python script, C++, or even Scratch, then you know that variables are vital. Computers and coders use variables as...

Published at LXer: This article explains the installation of the Opera browser on Debian Linux. We will describe both the command line and the GUI ways of installing the Opera browser in your...

My system boots at the moment and am just curious if I have a redundant fstab file. Listed below is my /etc/fstab file: Code: --------- /dev/sda5 /boot vfat noatime 0 ...

one of my partitions gets automatically mounted on boot as a removable drive: I do not intend to mount it there. I am mounting it into $USER/Projects I have mounting points for / and /home as...

Hello I'm looking for a IDE to develop on BASH, HTML, C/C++, XML, PHP+MYSQL, PROLOG. Now I using Emacs, but PHP is not set by color and indent like HTML, BASH ecc... Can you suggest me alternative...

Published at LXer: If you run a server with a public-facing SST access, you might have experienced malicious login attempts. This article shows how to use two utilities to keep the intruder out of...

Hi, I am using debian 9 for personal purposes I have to use at least kernel 5.1 and I have installed it. I wonder If I install the kernel from source via compiling do I have to install kernel-headers?

Hey all, Old dog user here, trying to learn some new tricks. This might be a silly question, but if one is installing 32-bit apps as images (e.g. flatpaks), does one still need a multilib system?...

Published at LXer: If you’re looking for software that acts as a central hub for internet content, you should try Fraidycat. It isn’t a feed reader. And while it does gather news headlines from...

Is there an easy way to do this, suitable for a beginner? I think .flv to .avi may be OK also, if that is easier. Thanks.

Published at LXer: The hostname is set during the installation of the operating system or dynamically assigned to the virtual machine when it is created. This guide explains how to set or change...

This is an example input file: Code: --------- cat test.input 9fcfdec4-58a9-4612-b80a-741669bd485d\nfa17fd04-80e1-44c1-bd5e-418bdd332100\nfa17fd04-80e1-44c1-bd5e-418bdd332100 --------- When I...

Published at LXer: Streamhut is a web service that allows you to instantly share your Terminal to web in real time with anyone, without installing anything in Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it helps the sysadmin grow and thrive. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/curiosity-asset)

Fglrx driver is not working in Debian jessie even with amd instruction from https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary. There are some glitchs with diversion package, kernel 3.16.04 headers and...

Does anyone hear about a computer and disk lock on Debian 8 with Firefox configuration level? Is this a matter of governmental organizations? From what I know the problem should be more on the side of...

Published at LXer: Firefox was my window into Mozilla 15 years ago, and it’s through this window I saw the power of an open and collaborative community driving lasting change. My admiration and … ...

Published at LXer: JSON is a human-readable text-based data format. It is language independent and used for data interchange between applications. In this article, we’ll explain how to parse JSON...

I am using Linux Mint 19.3, after configuration from Laptop display (1366x768) to HDMI display (1360x768) for my SHARP Monitor with *NVIDIA GeForce 525M driver*, I am _unable to revert the laptop...

Published at LXer: Five years since the last update, the team celebrates 50 years of the language with more architectures. Great news, Pascal fans. After a lengthy hiatus, the cross-platform Free...

hi, im new to Linux and currently running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on a vps. Like to ask some question rgd the correct way to user management - 1) is it a good practice(security reason) to first create a...

Published at LXer: Productivity is a subjective term, but essentially, it's a measurement of how efficiently a particular task is completed. Everyone has different things that keep them...

On my Dell INTEL laptop, I have upgrade with this Slackbuild microcode from git Code: --------- #!/bin/sh # Slackware build script for intel-ucode # Requires: iucode-tool PRGNAM=intel-ucode

Hi, for years and years, internet connectivity in my sphere has been lousy and spotty, with internet connectivity going down over and over. Years and years ago I had a plan to do a very simple app:...

Published at LXer: Visual Studio Code, also known as VS Code, is a code editor for Linux, Windows, and macOS. It's the kind of editor that walks the line between editing text and managing your...

Hi everyone, I want to give a chance to OpenBSD but I have to use Windows7 at the same time because I have .exe books on Windows 7 which are wine can not handle it. So can I use Windows7 on OpenBSD as...

Before you reply about derivatives, I am already well aware of their existence, but you may want to take a look at this first:...

Published at LXer: Netbox is a free and powerful IP address (IPAM) and datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM) tool. It is used for storing information about your networks, VMs, and...

Hello I am making a pentesting linux distribution. I want to create a repo for my distro but i don't know how to create a .deb file for metasploit or sqlmap. I have built up from a ubuntu server but...