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Published at LXer: Believe it or not, the Linux kernel 5.6 is now EOL (End-of-Life) and it will no longer receive updates or security fixes. Everyone is urged to update to the latest Linux 5.7...

Firstly, Thanks for letting me join LinuxQuestions and I hope I get to really understand this great concept. I am looking for help. I love Xubuntu but I am a complete newbie to terminal commands...

Slackware-current 64-bit Plasma in Vbox 6.1.10 updated following: https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/replacing-consolekit2-with-elogind-first-steps/ using nouveau driver. I did try VMSVGA and...

i've had this working on other distros before passing a graphics card and a usb card but i'm getting this error with slackware when starting a vm with pcie devices attached: 2020-06-22...

Published at LXer: In SSH tunneling, an encrypted channel is created between an ssh client and an ssh server. Information flowing within the encrypted tunnel is secure and thus cannot be...

Hi, I'm looking for a monitoring software for Debian 10. I need the following features: * command line interface * temp, clock and fan of cpu and gpu * case fan * total usage of cpu, ram(mb and...

Using -current with AlienBob's Plasma5/elogind. I use an HP LaserJet 1020 for printing via HPLIP. Upon upgrading to the latest Plasma5/elogind I got a weird issue: When I send a document to...

My brother was really impressed with my new BodHi installs and wants to try it out, but he is reluctant to affect his windows installations. I know BodHi can run in a LIVEusb... but that is not...

I'm on a fairly new install of Kubunto 20.04 and seem to have lot of issues with Kdenlive from stability issues (it randomly shuts off a lot) and even the final renders are often messed up. Lot of...

I shall be using Linux Mint 20 MATE on a brand new SSD shortly with all my programs, Thunderbird email plus documents, pictures etc installed. My home folder will be backed up to another drive...

i've had this working on other distros before passing graphics card and usb card but i'm getting this error with slackware: 2020-06-22 18:20:00.353+0000: 1576: warning :...

Published at LXer: Software Wars is a 70 minute documentary about the ongoing battle between proprietary versus free and open-source software. The more we share scientific information, the faster...

After working for some time in GNOME I was thinking about switching to KDE. I upgraded a laptop without much issues, so I went for the desktop as well. As recommended (and tried before on the...

I'm attempting to save a short streaming audio clip to an mp3 file. I set Capture with alsamixer to 100% and then used the Code: --------- arecord -f cd -t raw | lame -x -r – out.mp3 --------- ...

Published at LXer: Some time ago, I learned an important Kubernetes lesson the hard way. The story begins with Kubernetes Operators, which is a method of packaging, deploying, and managing a...

Hey! I am using GitHub Actions to execute some .NETCore tests on the Ubuntu Virtual Machines that they provide: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/tree/ubuntu16/20200512.2 The code...

I can't login to the web interface using the admin login. It's consistent in both Chrome and Edge. I logged in to the box as root, changed the admin password using the setup utility, tried again and...

All, Gedit is a superior editor except for it's buffer size. Large files have a hard time. I've looked for HOWTOs to find the config file for gedit to set or increase the memory buffer size but...

For those who want a relevant solution for internet cafe server for Linux, there is an operating system called Camerubuntu-hotspot which can make all you want to do in cybercafe in few minutes (15...

My HP D1470 inkjet printer is not printing black correctly. It's connected via a USB cable. I've done all the usual things which are 1 Loaded the latest HPLIP printer software 3.20.6 and rebooted...

Published at LXer: Have you ever wanted a temporary working space with read/write access? Good! This guide explains how to to mount a temporary partition in RAM in Linux. Read More......

I'm saving a list of files to a bash variable and I want to read that variable line by line. The code for saving the file list to a variable is: Code: --------- filelist_number="$((1 +...

I installed Suse Tumbleweed on my computer. It works fine, but I can only get 1024x768 resolution. I use 1280x1024 in WinBlows. When I first did the install of Suse, at some point it complains...

I have an NJ01JZ 4 Port USB Gigabit Network Server, bought from Maplins many years ago. I've never managed to install it despite DuckDuckGoing for a solution, so I'd welcome some tips on how to do...

hi, i have: hostnamectl Static hostname: test1 Icon name: computer-vm Chassis: vm Machine ID: ccfd9cda15204235be08f87f0daf1a84 Boot ID:...

If so, how come do we see packet loss be distributed unevenly among hops? That is, if there is 5 percent loss in the first hop, the following hops, should start out with 95 percent of the packets...

Published at LXer: This tutorial will go through all steps of installing and configuring relevant utilities in order to mount windows share on Linux system. Read More......

This is probably not something new to many of you, but if you want to have video thumbnails enabled in PCManFM, install "FFmpegthumbnailer". It works out of the box. I tried "FFMpegThumbs" but, nope....

It's possibly to add sox effects durring I play music from youtube or any stream music (mpd)? Preferably using command line.

Published at LXer: Customization is one of the strong points of Linux. Don’t agree? See how you can give your Ubuntu Linux a macOS makeover. Read More......

Published at LXer: Checkout this post on Android development on Linux using Anbox. Read More... (https://www.usessionbuddy.com/post/how-to-run-apks-on-linux/)

I am using Slackware 14.2 (64-bit) as my operating system, and I have an HP Deskjet 1512 All-in-one printer, and my question it this: Is there a way for me to disable the printer's power saver mode,...

Published at LXer: Alexander Tratsevskiy announced today the release of Calculate Linux 20.6, which comes with dozens of performance optimizations, modern GNU/Linux technologies and updated...

I would like to configure readline to always leave me in command mode after running a shell command. Is this possible?

Hello. I am trying to write a script to start my game by changing desktop resolution then when i am finished playing and close the game the desktop will revert back to the previous resolution. Here is...

I installed current but am unable to boot off my nvme disk. The boot fails instantly. I can successfully boot off of the usb that was made during the install. I have an efi partition mounted at...

Published at LXer: Oracle announced the release of brand new Oracle Linux 8.2 which is an enterprise-class server Linux distribution built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Read More......

Hello I've finished setting up and run samba service to which i can successfully connect from Win10 machine using file explorer however trying to copy anything that is at least couple of hundreds...

Apparently this thread is a good place for a first post. Just testing how this works. I'm here to learn how to use Slackware.

Published at LXer: Now that EA have decided to cosy up with Valve once again, their games have been pouring onto Steam and that means certain games like Titanfall 2 are easy to get going on Linux....

Published at LXer: Apache Maven is an open-source project management and comprehension tool used primarily for Java projects. Maven uses a Project Object Model (POM), which is essentially an XML...

Hi. I get the following error: (bash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device). I check the status of my disks and see that the system file is suddenly full. I am a new user...

Hi. I get the following error: (bash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device). I check the status of my disks and see that the system file is suddenly full. I am a new user...

Hi. I get the following error: (bash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device). I check the status of my disks and see that the system file is suddenly full. I am a new user...

Hello, I have a server with one NIC on board, and a dual port PCI Express NIC added. This server will be used exclusively for virtualization. I essentially want to configure the interfaces so that...

I have a simple bash script Code: --------- #!/bin/bash COUNTER=0; for FF in *.MP2 do ((COUNTER++)); FFF=Ep$COUNTER.MP2 echo $FFF

Published at LXer: While many of us are enjoying the many new features and improvements of the KDE Plasma 5.19 desktop environment, the KDE Project is already working on the next major release,...

After upgrading to Alien Bob's latest Plasma5 (KDE-5_20.06) on top of slackware-current I lost the ability to suspend or hibernate the "server" using KDE menus. Not that I use this function a lot...

Published at LXer: The Lumina desktop was originally developed by iXSystems for TrueOS, which later became Project Trident. It[he]#039[/he]s well-known as the BSD desktop environment but has been...

Hi guys, During a LFS installation one has to fetch, unpack and change directories a lot. I wrote this small perl script which relies on wget to make life a little easier. I'm sure similar options...