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Greetings! I have a very old (8-9 years old) Dell Vostro 3550 laptop. It currently has Windows 7 on it. Since that OS is no longer supported, I want to put Linux on it, to use as my portable amateur...

https://alvinalexander.com/php/how-to-remove-non-printable-characters-in-string-regex/ I'm trying to remove all non-printable ascii without removing new lines. The code above works except that it...

Published at LXer: Nginx pronounced “engine x” is an open-source, high-performance HTTP and reverse proxy server responsible for handling the load of some of the largest sites on the Internet. It...

Hello, Myself Krunal. I am web developer for last 5 years and have good knowledge of Linux Ubuntu and CentOS. Nice to meet you.

I have recently created a bridge and two VLAN's (slaves of that bridge) to be able to use in my VM's so they may get IP's under specific subnets from a pfsense FW. This works perfectly. However I...

Hey so I'm curious about this Veri peculiar thing: What is it like to know and understand Linux very well? What cool things are you able to do? I want to know approximately what to expect for...

Hi all, Approx one week ago I built a new home file server, assembling 3x 10 TB disks into a single RAID5 mdadm volume (/mnt/md0). Array has been working great for the week and I transferred my...

Hi guys, it's me again, i'm very troubled from old versions of Linux, but i installed mandrake 7.0 in Virtualbox, the boot message is all ok, but i always get stuck in starting httpd. But if Server X...

I tried copying Debian 10 by unmounting then "cp" to usb as this guide at 4.3.1 states https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-flexible But I get this error when I try...

I have the following script Code: --------- #!/bin/bash read -p "Country Code e.g. US, NZ, UK: " country_var echo protonvpn c --cc $country_var sudo protonvpn c -cc $country_var echo "" read...

Does anyone know what is the advantage of keepassxc over regular keepass? Keepass seems to be audited in the European Commission's Free and Open Source Software Auditing (EU-FOSSA 1) whereas...

This is my first post, so if I am not following protocols correctly, kindly let me know so I do not repeat the same mistake. I am running a Mint LMDE4 machine on VirtualBox 6.1.6 on an SSD drive. ...

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I have a PC dedicated to playing music, the operating system on an SSD, and the music on another drive. I am trying to get the second drive to mount automatically without luck. After much...

Hi Group, I just installed Bodhi Linux on my elderly Acer Aspire One Netbook. Pleased to report, everything is running just fine. Just wondering, when I was going through the installation, I...

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I have a program that helps me do sudokus, the fiendish kind where you have to make a guess at some point and then backtrack if it leads to contradictions. The puzzle is represented by a grid of...

Gnome desktop 64 bit currently Fedora 31. ASUS Laptop. Fedora 31 rans fine but can not get past the fist command in the upgrade process ad outined in the Fedora upgrade process. The system was...

1.What is the Linux command line argument to use with a command to find help on how to use that command? 2.What are the names of the first 4 sections in the manual page for the ‘grep’ command?

Published at LXer: Cp is the command in Linux that is used to copy a file from one location to another. But what if we need to copy a file to multiple locations. There is a way I can show how to...

I have an old HP Stream 11 Netbook currently running Windows 10. System specs are: Intel Celeron N3060 1.1GHz 4GB RAM 32GB Hard drive Here's the Amazon page, in case I missed any important...

hey everybody, so my name is elie and im 20, for a long time now i want to switch from windows to linux, i even installed ubuntu on my laptop (the only good computer i have) and tryed to use it;...

Published at LXer: As we know already, the majority of keyboards come with a dedicated Windows key because most manufacturers have partnered with Microsoft to optimize their peripherals for the...

Hi, I've just installed ubuntu 20.04 alongside ubuntu 14.04. I don't have a grub menu showing me the choice of OS's when booting, the computer defaults to 14.04 and starts it Ubuntu 20.04 is...

I need to configure /etc/yum.conf with a repository, is there a list of RH 8 repos?

Hi, I would like to know wich wifi printer is supported by ubuntu 20.04?

debian 10 cinnamon x64 after powering on computer, debian stops boot sequence in about 15 seconds and hangs and does not continue. does anyone know how to fix this?

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I am trying to connect to wifi using netctl. I do "netstl start ". Nothing happens. It returns right away. Dmesg shows ": authenticated", and journalctl -xe shows dhcprequest for an ip...

As far as I know there are no games that run on Wayland. I have yet to see an application that allows tearing in favour of low latency, or any heavy 3D applications that can compare performance...

Published at LXer: Mattermost is an open-source messaging system that can be used as a Slack alternative. Mattermost brings team communication to a single place and makes it accessible from your...

I'm a beginner, I know little to nothing about everything related to linux, I have a few old laptops and i'm looking for a distro which well be as easy to use as possible and in the same time as...

I installed 'server' to begin with and upon reboot, no X-Windows started. I just got a command line login prompt. After I logged in, startx didn't work either. When I did the default install...

Hello All, When using F31 (cinnamon desktop), the notifications on bottom icon bar would announce that updates were available, and I would start dnfdragora and be able to see what was available and...

Can /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/elilo.conf be manually edited to add entries, and if so, does something need to be updated after the edit?

Running Kubuntu: Plasma Desktop Shell 4.11.11 on KDE 4.14.3 on Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS on an AMD CPU with built-in graphics, monitor connected through DVI. When I had to loan away my Samsung TV/monitor...

Hi - I've been banging my head into a wall trying to figure this out. I'm setting up an iSCSI share on Debian, but keep getting "No portals found" on my client machine when I do: iscsiadm -m...

*3 Days *TRIAL PERIOD AVAILABLE** *Doberman Firewall web GUI* 100% Hacker identification and unauthorised entry totally restricted Can work with CentOS, Fedora & Red Hat Tested with CentOS 5 & 6...

Published at LXer: Everybody loves a VPN these days. Whether you use it to connect to the office while working from home, or to connect to your own home server, or to encrypt your traffic on an...

Hi guys, it's me again, i'm very troubled from old versions of Linux, but i installed mandrake 7.0 in Virtualbox, the boot message is all ok, but i always get stuck in starting httpd. But if Server X...

After realising the root partition was too small for the programmes I want to use, I decided to enlarge the root partition and do a fresh install which seemed to go well. So I updated the system. ...

Hello, I want to create an user that only has permission to write, read and execute all files in one directory, how could I achieve this? Sorry, I'm still learning and I absolutely love Linux lol.

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Published at LXer: WebP is an image format developed by Google in 2010 that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, web developers can create smaller,...

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I followed the instructions on page https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:multilib I like to use spi to update and upgrade because it seems easier. But I became cautions because it seemed to say...

Code: --------- $ groups jason adm sudo kvm libvirt lxd windowsbackup --------- Code: --------- ls -al

I'm using convert tp put some text on an image and I have one little niggling problem - I cannot see how to move the text to the center of the label: Code: ---------...

Permission denied for : Code: --------- scp -P 26289 fontSample.ttf user1@192.168.0.73:/usr/share/fonts/truetype --------- In order to 'hardening' the server : user1 is only sudo member...

Published at LXer: Kubernetes is a new way to deploy Linux. It really is a tight collaboration but what we're really focused on is the customer experience.The post Linux and Kubernetes: Serving The...