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Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: Basic 25 Linux Interview Questions and Answers. Read More... (https://www.2daygeek.com/linux-interview-questions-answers-1/)

Published at LXer: Grub Customizer is a great GUI tool for changing the default configurations of the grub bootloader. With this tool you can add, remove and rearrange boot menu entries via the...

What am I missing or doing wrong here ? The man pages on my system are stored in the /usr/share/man directory but why can you enter from the command line man chmod and bash displays the man page for...

Published at LXer: ElkArte is a free, open-source and powerful community forum building software based on Simple Machines Forum. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install ElkArte with Let's...

Anybody know how to disable this super annoying "feature" in deepin 20? Happy with it otherwise, but this drives me crazy. Thanks.

What is the employment / career growth outlook for admins specializing in Linux servers vs MS servers regarding IoT and BI?

Published at LXer: This guide explains how to configure X11 forwarding using SSH in Linux. X11 forwarding is useful to securely run graphical applications over SSH. Read More......

I've installed Slackware-current on a Dell Latitude E5420 laptop with Intel i3-2350M and 4G of memory. I'm trying to get the WiFi working. I have the following in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf Code:...

Hi there, I'm using a few linux systems and, in case of issues, I hope to either find answers here or share any suitable solution with you. Cheers!

I've left out the stars, and deleted all the quick ones except the last. Code: --------- bash-5.0$ nslookup zoom.us Server:192.168.178.1 Address:192.168.178.1#53 Non-authoritative...

i was using GoToMeeting successfully for 24h with Chrome on Slackware current ('current' is one year old here) - when suddenly my microphone (using a Jabra USB headset) started to be muted and became...

Using gsettings, it's possible to list all values in the dconf database like this: Code: --------- gsettings list-recursively --------- This shows all current values. There's also a way to...

hi, i order to reduce the wa (iowait)there are several thing to be done: -RAM increase -in order to have mnore buffer -change the disk with a fater disk. If i like to backup the file system from...

Greetings, Can anyone tell me why KDE was dropped for the latest CentOS release? A Greate GUI which works very well Used in other major Linux releases. Works well, easy to use so why drop it...

Like the title says, and I'm stuck. Ubuntu 16 in a VirtualBox VM. A couple of months ago I upgraded from VB5 to VB6. This was the only VM to have issues I couldn't resolve. It's been a few...

After a lot of fiddling and fuming, I finally got a valid build of the pgsql client files for PHP7/Apache on -current. There was actually very little work needed for the Slackbuild file to create...

Don't see this posted anywhere else. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-alphabet-google-chrome-exclusive-idUKKBN23P0JM

Published at LXer: It's worth the effort to run a real-time kernel and evaluate its potential and performance benefits for applications. Read More......

Published at LXer: Jordan Petridis of the GNOME Release Team announced the general availability of GNOME 3.36.3 as the third point release to the latest GNOME 3.36 desktop environment series. ...

Published at LXer: With the coronavirus pandemic making working from home more popular than ever, business-class Chromebooks are coming to the forefront. Read More......

Published at LXer: Composer is a dependency manager for PHP (similar to npm for Node.js or pip for Python). With Composer, you can specify the PHP libraries your project depends on, and it will...

Published at LXer: Applications are increasingly privileged and we find ourselves running programs that could represent a security vulnerability to our systems and, more importantly, to our...

Published at LXer: Stealth tactics game Desperados III has been confirmed to be launching for Linux later this Summer. Read More......

Hello, everyone. This topic is not actually a question but if someone is feeling adventurous, beta-testers welcome. I I got tired of grepping /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/* , and wanted to...

All, Have this script to pull version from the system: Code: --------- for line in $lines; do if [[ "$line" =~ "VERSION_ID=" ]]; then ver=${line:11:5}

Hi friends, made a bit of a stupid mistake when stretching a disk, I added 550Gb to the existing disk in vmware, created a partition in fdisk, created a pv, stretched the group onto that pv, then...

Published at LXer: Linux, in a way, is a series of static and dynamic libraries that depend on each other. For new users of Linux-based systems, the whole handling of libraries can be a mystery....

Mc can no longer competently extract from mozilla.org's .bz2 files. https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/1952 e.g. using...

Published at LXer: A new version of Raspberry Pi-based Little Backup Box is here, featuring improvements and new functionality. Read More......

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Published at LXer: For this week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog, Luke puts a desktop search tool under the microscope. Read More......

I am using Slackware 14.2 (64-bit) as my operating system, and when I first installed Zoom on it, I was able to join a weekly Bible study that the pastor of my Church hosts every week, unfortunately...

What is a skeleton package? I looked at the description of the base system package and it states: basesystem - The skeleton package which defines a simple Mageia Linux system Also: ...

hi i cant gtk+-3.24.0 make finish and i not sure what about it is the complain this is the output from make Code: --------- make[2]: Entering directory '/home/user/gtk+3/gtk+-3.24.0/gtk'...

I am TongueOfTheFatMan and I'd like to say hello. This is my first post. I am a C++ programmer and I am interested In deploying Linux for a few projects. Thanks

Hey guys, newbie here you've probably heard this loads:). I have created a bootable usb with puppy linux on it and before I install it I just want to make sure that it doesn't mess up my computer or I...

Published at LXer: NetworkManager is the network configuration daemon used on Fedora and many other distributions. It provides a consistent way to configure network interfaces and other...

Published at LXer: Canonical has launched the Ubuntu Appliance initiative which aims to transform Raspberry Pi devices or personal computers into secure, self-updating solutions. Read More......

Is there is a way to change location of the delete in the shelf when you right-click it. My dad easily deletes the shelf, but why have that delete there in the first place. Not that hard to replace...

Hi, I've recently successfully installed Dolphin (FM) in Mint - Cinnamon DT. However, though I can change the icon for any folder in my drive, the icon-edit option for a file - normally click on...

Published at LXer: A discussion of storage space measurement units and reserved space. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/disk-space)

Published at LXer: Experienced developers, much like skilled artisans, rely on a set of tools to help them get their job done effectively and efficiently. However, trying to select the right tools...

I noticed that the version of HPLIP that installs with Slackware 14.2 is 3.16.5, but then, after checking with the HP website, i noticed that the latest version that they have is 3.20.6. My question...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will describe two ways for Debian users to configure their laptop’s touchpad in a way that it is automatically disabled whenever they plug in an external...

I'm a die hard Linux user, and have been for many many years. The closest I get to Windows is in VMs, and usually only boot those to update them. Now, I have some (non-PC) stuff that needs...

while i was trying to crack the password with aircrack-ng through john i am getting the following error dheeraj@kali:~/Desktop$ sudo john password.txt [sudo] password for dheeraj: Using default...

As it stands know, the entire distro ins in one h.u.g.e. partition 240 GB worth... So, I'm thinking it might be better to put the install in 3(?) separate partitions.

So my WIFI card currently just disappeared, and i i have no idea what to do and any solutions either make no sense, don't work or won't work. Im using a dongle right now which works fine as soon as...

hi, let`s say we have a host with 5 cores and 4 VMs. At a certain point in a VM we have high i/o disk traffic,so a certain vcpu waits for disk i/o to completes. That vcpu uses a certain core in...

Published at LXer: The who command is another handy command from the GNU Core Utilities package. Learn what it is, how to use it, and all about it's options and switches. Read More......