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I run both VirtualBox 7.0.18 & VMware Player 17.5.2 on my slackware64 current box at home. I just keep VMware Player just for some old Microsoft OS VM's and rely more on VirtualBox. I had noted...

Code: --------- watch grep -e Dirty: -e Writeback: /proc/meminfo --------- Code: --------- Dirty: 2063940 kb ---------

Published at LXer: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 brings much-anticipated software updates, closing the cycle on eighth series releases. Here's more on that! Read More......

If you're having trouble user mounting volumes with udisks/gui file manager, create this file: Code: --------- # Begin /etc/pam.d/polkit-1 auth include system-auth account include ...

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I'm in eastern us time zone at 6:45am. I tried multiple mirrors in several time zones & mirrors.slackware.com

Published at LXer: Learn how to install and use the screen command in Linux to manage multiple shell sessions during an SSH connection, with practical examples. Read More......

Hi, the recent ntp update got me to look into /var/log/, and I saw /var/log/messages hadn't been rotated since February, others too. It was 40 MB in size... I ran /etc/cron.daily/logrotate and it...

Published at LXer: The CIA triad '' no relation to the Central Intelligence Agency '' is an information security framework for protecting information. It examines the confidentiality, integrity,...

With new owner Broadcom who knows when the remaining VMware employees will get around to fixing the module build to work under the latest kernel releases. The issue is various errors referencing...

Published at LXer: The Armbian community informs 9to5Linux.com today about the availability of Armbian 24.5, codenamed Havier, as the latest stable release of this Debian/Ubuntu-based distribution...

I recently bought an external HDD dock to pull some files from an old system onto my laptop, but while copying files my whole system would suddenly, instantly, and completely freeze. No tty access, no...

Published at LXer: KaOS 2024.05 debuts with a full Qt6 integration, Plasma 6.0.5, KDE Gear 24.05, removal of X11 dependencies, and more. Read More......

I am not talking about the monitor mounting specification but the video driver. I was testing FreeBSD the other day again, I installed it many times without much success on the video department, I...

Palemoon is installed from the tar download and placed in $HOME/.local/opt/palemoon/, the executable is symlinked to $HOME/.local/bin/palemoon which is in my $PATH, and a .desktop entry was created...

Published at LXer: Armbian 24.5.1: Emphasizing Stability & User Experience For Diverse Hardware PlatformsThe release of Armbian 24.5.1 Havier marks a significant update focusing on stability...

im using the flatpak version of heroic and i tried to enable FSR. It seems like it works if i enable it from the switch, but if i add a custom environmental variable ( WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 ) under...

I am using Ubuntu 24.04 and trying to record live audio with ffmpeg. I am using the command Code: --------- ffmpeg -f alsa -i default [...] --------- ... and want it to route to the...

Published at LXer: One-Click-Backup is a basic program to backup folders to an external location. Itis written in C++ and uses Qt. Read More......

Hi, I'm running 15.0 using Openbox as my DE, I don't use, have any other desktops installed in Slack. I have Razer mice and I use openrazer, but I've always noticed the DPI speeds are 2-3x...

Published at LXer: Struggling to stay productive in Linux? Bartib can help! This guide explains how to track your time with Bartib, a time tracking application for Linux. Read More......

Please remind me what it is on system rescue cd that replaced partimage for cloning ext4 and above, as well as less experimental for ntfs? It was mentioned in some previous thread of mine, and now,...

I looked up the Folder properties in PCManFM of my root on Crostini (Debian 12 "bookworm" environment on ChromeOS), and it says: *Total size of files:* 256.0 TiB *Size on disk:* 3.4 GiB The...

Published at LXer: This guide shows you how to change your Linux shell, making the switch from(to) Bash, Fish, Zsh, or any other shell a breeze. Read More......

Has something changed recently, over the past 1-2 weeks? Prior to that, I had no problem connecting to LQ, but all of a sudden, sometimes I have to connect 2-3 times when I ask/respond to questions. ...

I am aware that some distributions out there are moving things from /*bin to /usr/*bin, but fortunately Slackware is still having everything needed to mount partitions in /*bin rather than /usr/*bin...

Published at LXer: The 189th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on May 26th, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux...

Linux+ student here. AES-256 is the current standard for encryption, by industry. I placed a key on a usb-fat32 drive, but was interrupted during the process. The drive was assigned a mapped name--and...

I am not familiar with Ubuntu and I have not used Gnome since 1.2 (I think). That said, I have a laptop with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Gnome 46 on it, and I am having problems. 1) Files that are in...

Problem: This is a router/gateway that has an additional IP address for the USB media port. I can ping the gateway, but cannnot ping the media IP on the router used for the drive. I've added both IP's...

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I have set "setgid" 2775 on /mnt/repo dir Code: --------- find /mnt/repo -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \; stat /mnt/repo/ File: /mnt/repo/ Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO...

Published at LXer: Ubuntu 24.04's release in April 2024 followed the biannual Long-Term Support (LTS) schedule for the popular Linux distro. Despite the new release, I'm holding off a bit on...

Published at LXer: Learn how to use "ed", the oldest line editor in Unix/Linux, to create, edit, display, and manipulate files with practical examples. Read More......

Published at LXer: Rclone is a free and open source command line program to manage files on cloud storage services like Google Drive, Backblaze B2, Amazon S3, and many more. The application is...

Published at LXer: As expected, Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.10...

How can I please make something like that: Code: --------- SomeJSFunctionReturningString(); ... /p> ---------

I am on NUC12WSKi5 and Slackware 15 -current. I want to suspend my computer. Code: --------- echo s2idle > /sys/power/mem_sleep # default echo mem > /sys/power/state --------- ... does...

Published at LXer: Samsung has disputed a report which claimed its high-bandwidth memory products are not performing to Nvidia's satisfaction. Reuters last week reported that Samsung's chips did...

Hi New member, frequent past lurker. Games on Windows, using Linuxmint, dabbling in Slackware.

I have a RAID-5 with smartctl reporting read errors on one of the members (/dev/sdb). Before replacing the drive, I would like to check for and lock-out any bad blocks on that drive. I can remove the...

Published at LXer: DFRobot Releases New ESP32-UE and ESP32-E Modules Featuring External and PCB AntennasDFRobot's FireBeetle series has expanded with the FireBeetle 2 ESP32-UE (N16R2) and ESP32-E,...

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For those US members and maybe others the current TV cheez-it cracker commercial is basically a spinoff from the tux racer game.

I just migrated a set of named zone files from an older Raspberry Pi to a newer one and the named.service will not start. From the CLI, If I run "named -f" I see a series of zone files being loaded...

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Disclaimer: bcachefs is a recent addition to the Linux kernel and still in experimental stages. For a stable production machine, you should use something well proven, like ext4. bcachefs on a...

Published at LXer: DSGW-130: A Voice-Control Enabled Touchscreen Control Panel for Smart HomesThe DSGW-130 Zigbee Touch Screen Control Panel by Dusun is a compact device designed for smart home...

The logic operator in the new logrotate seems very odd to me . the "!"(Not) operator is outside all logic interpretation levels thus makeing the logic of the line upto "||" as NOT if it is executable...

Published at LXer: SkyByte: An Upcoming Mini DIY Drone Powered by ESP32 MCU with Smartphone ControlThe SkyByte, an upcoming Mini DIY Wi-Fi Drone powered by the versatile ESP32 microcontroller, is...