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Published at LXer: Some good news to share for the free and open source Godot Engine, as the lead developer Juan Linietsky announced during GodotCon that Epic Games have approved them for an Epic...

Hi all from NYC Just getting started playing with mint 19.3. been using windows since 3.1 dead give away to my age

Published at LXer: When working on a project, you are probably managing many different branches in your repository. As the number of branches grow, you may need to work on different tasks in...

Xubuntu 19.10, trying to run kdenlive. The .deb package crashes every time I try to add a clip, so I tried the snap version. It works well except that it can't load or save anything. I've seen...

Hello world, Long time reader, first time poster here. I’ve been working to compile the latest Linux kernel for the PowerPC64 big endian Xenon platform - the Xbox 360. I have a functioning cross...

Howdy everyone, It's great to be a part of this community. I am a former software engineer who worked primarily on linux - now I do most of my daily work on Windows and have joined "the dark side"...

Published at LXer: Canonical released today a new Linux kernel live patch (rebootless) for all of its long-term supported (LTS) Ubuntu releases to address various security vulnerabilities already...

Hi all, Linux newbie here. Brand new Linux VM running CentOS 7. - Let's call it NewVM. From my computer, let's call it VLAN 1, I can SSH into NewVM in VLAN 2. However when I try to SSH...

I recently ditched both Windows and OS Mac for Linux so I am a novice (and also 68 years old). As part of this process I cloned my old Mac HD and installed Linus Mint on a new SSD. When I try to...

In order to get Nautilus to compile, I had to replace the Pango that ships with -current with a newer version since Nautilus depends on features in the newer version. So I did that, made a slackbuild...

Published at LXer: Pine64 unveiled a smaller, cheaper ($35 and up) “HardRock64” variant of its RK3399-based RockPro64 SBC that omits the PCIe and USB Type-C. There’s also a SoEdge module in the...

So I have a rooted Android VMOS install and I am attempting to run Nethunter, but when I attempt to install the full or minimal Chroot, it does its thing, makes me choose metapackages, but when I...

Hi, I'm trying to write a postscript file in a c program. Most is working fine, but now I want to include material from another file into the output. First I extract the page I want to insert...

So when I reboot and the default bootloader is the one added by linux, it's immediately frozen. The countdown to autoselect isn't moving, I have to hard boot to get out. If I use F9 (to tell the bios...

I have a linux server at my service to host a wordpress website and to store and read my mails. So, I wonder if encrypting my server and install a VPN on my server could improve the security of my...

can slack and other Linux distro's be put into a fat16 efi partition or does it absolutely have to be fat32? because from what I've researched is that FreeBSD has to be 16bit, so I am hoping I can...

Published at LXer: Every open source community wants to make it easier for community members to participate and contribute. Typically, there are discussions on cultural aspects of the community to...

Published at LXer: Nvidia released today the Nvidia 440.59 long-lived graphics driver for UNIX systems to add a few enhancements and fix various bugs. Read More......

Hi, After a fresh install of Slackware64 -current I noticed that XFCE4 Thunar does not automount USB. Running dbus-launch thunar, I have this messages: Code: --------- $ dbus-launch thunar...

Hello, I am getting BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, vbdblkq/75 in bio.c. Here is the log report. BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, vbdblkq/75 lock: 0x8699f840, .magic: dead4ead, .owner:...

Published at LXer: Debian comes with a powerful set of keyboard shortcuts that you can utilize in order to increase your productivity through minimum effort. When you have a good grip on the...

Published at LXer: Linux Mint's Clement Lefebvre wrote another of their monthly progress reports on how Linux Mint and their Cinnamon desktop are doing and it's all great news. Read More......

Java SE Development Kit 13 Which is from here https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk13-downloads-5672538.html And then Java SE Development Kit 8

When starting a VM from an .img file, for example in QEMU, can changes made to the VM's filesystem/underlying device propagate to the .img file (so that the next time a VM is run from that .img file...

Published at LXer: Option to securely carry your user profile with you in next release. The systemd-homed service, which enables portable home directories, has been merged into the code for...

Hi there, For some time I'm trying to setup my machine to Slackware-current (I can manage that), along with AlienBOBs ktown. The way I went was this; install slackpkg+ in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors...

Published at LXer: Apache OFBiz also known as "Open For Business Project" is a free and open-source ERP system written in Java. It is a suite of business applications that can be used to run all...

Respected All, I'm Susil a self proclaimed Python Yogi saying 'Hello' to everyone. I'm based out of Hyderabad, India and a software professional. Cheers n Best Wishes!!! Python Yogi

It is one of those threads ... I followed the link on https://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/liberate.en.html#OS to Technoethical (https://tehnoetic.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=59) and...

I reside in Atlanta Georgia and am a network engineer. I used to be heavier into linux but still have a fondness and appreciation for it. Then Again, I use iyer every day via my cell phone.

I am trying to understand file type of an epoll fd returned from epoll_create() system call. When I call fstat() on epoll fd, the value returned in statbuf.st_mode indicates that the epoll fd...

Published at LXer: Two quick bits of Steam news to cover this wonderful Monday morning. As expected, Steam does still appear to be growing. Read More......

*The Problem:* I installed Kaffeine 2.0.14 in Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon and it does not display titles in the Electronic Program Guide (EPG) dialog, It lists channels only after I click on them to...

Published at LXer: The FOSDEM 2020 (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) conference opens its doors today in Brussels as the first major event for the Open Source community....

My latest Slackware install was installed to several LUKS volume groups. Everything unlocks and mounts properly at boot, but the issue is that despite using the same passphrase I must enter that...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, you will learn how to install PHP 7 on CentOS 7. To be more specific, you will learn how to install PHP 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3. Read More......

Published at LXer: Are you just getting started with machine/deep learning, TensorFlow, or Raspberry Pi? I created rpi-deep-pantilt as an interactive demo of object detection in the wild, and in...

Hya, *Question* Has anybody ever installed OlyVIA under wine? OlyVIA (https://www.olympus-lifescience.com/en/support/downloads/) is a virtual slide microscope by Olympus. I tried on several...

Overnight, after having worked successfully the previous day, I get this when turning on the laptop: Checking Media presence No Media present Reboot and select proper Boot device or...

Published at LXer: Discover how reposync makes it easy to mirror repositories in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/how-mirror-repository)

I bought a new SSD, partitioned and formatted 150 GB NTFS for Windows 7 and another 150GB EXT3 for Ubuntu. Have installed Windows. How do I get Ubuntu installed and a boot menu for both, without...

Published at LXer: Install ownCloud on Ubuntu 18.04. ownCoud is an open-source, self-hosted file syncing and file sharing collaboration platform, similar to OneDrive, Google Drive and others. ...

I have a simple kickstart (I think it's simple) but it will not even start the install. It fails almost immediately with 2 errors that make no sense to me: 1. [9.934833] tmpfs: bad mount option...

if you have a mkv file, can you just change the .mkv to .mp4 or must you make the change in terminal? I'm still terrified at the command line. thanks in advance. Peace

Published at LXer: While the use of systemd by most Linux distros remains a subject of controversy, the recent vote by Debian members to support systemd while exploring other alternatives seems to...

Hi. I've been using linux for over twenty years and I've been to this site and never asked a question. I was always grepping for answers. I started with a Slackware dist that I got from the MIT...

Published at LXer: When we think about what needs to be in place for an open source project to function, one of the first things to come to mind is probably a license. For one thing, absent an...

Hi, I'm writing to you in order to find a solution to my problem: wifi is not working in my laptop Acer Aspire-ES1-533 when It is running under lubuntu 18.04.4 LTS *since I linked it to a repeater*...

I value Telegram Desktop for messaging securely, but cannot figure out how to configure it so it starts up minimised after bootup (this is on Linux Mint, if that makes a difference).

Published at LXer: Are you a talented, passionate photographer or graphics artist? Well, then you’re in luck if you want the world to see your creations as the Ubuntu Studio team has officially...