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Hello all, I have two older version Panasonic Toughbook laptops with Intel Core 2 Duo processors. One of them is a Make1 and the other is Make2. The Make1 came with an Intel 4965G wireless card and...

Published at LXer: The best way to test the Linux based distribution without out-right installing it on your hard drive as dual boot system is to install it in a virtual machine, be it Virtual Box...

Hello guys, I'm new over here. I'm using Squid proxy server in a Raspberry with the idea of having a transparent proxy reachable both from LAN and Internet using a 3G connection as proxy gateway,...

Hi! Slackware64-current form 10.10.2019. Clean install, KDE4 works. I downloaded Ktown Erics KDE-5.19.10 packages to replace KDE4. README: 1. slackpkg remove kde 2. upgradepkg --reinstall...

Published at LXer: Compression is best applied to data, not humans. Here are a few of my favorite ways to distance myself from the pressures of being a sysadmin. Read More......

I am trying to automate backup process but unable to logout by shell sctript. To take back up of another system I need to logout from first one, which should not require any manual intervention. How...

Thank you for accepting me on your forum. My name is Jan, i run a IT business doing mostly any kind of IT consulting and support cross platform. I normally get things right that i struggle with by...

Hello, I have inherited a linux gateway with OS: OpenSuSe 42.3 The person responsible for setup has a medical condition and i cant contact him. If i do a # iptables -L, I can see all the setup...

Published at LXer: DNF stands for Dandified YUM is a software package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions. It is used to install, update and remove packages in the Fedora/RHEL/CentOS...

Maybe looks strange, but it is just like the title says. The reason is that the package skypeforlinux from SBo packs a fake systemd-logind server, to make the skypeforlinux binary happy. And I...

Hello! What happent if I do #chmod -x passwd. Or is there better way to stop making new users. Kids are too good to make bad things:)

HI! I am brand new at Linux. I have an old Lenova MllX 310-1o1CR with x5 ATOM Z8350 processor that I would like to use for my 1st venture into Linux. any suggestions on the best version to install

I have heard of Docker but know nothing about it, can anyone point me in the direction of some reading material as well as containers ?

After i installed and upgrades mint serena 32-bit i saw the file type was ex2 & don`t see any way to change it-any advise ? I did not see Grub either but gparted so i plan on instaling Berg with GUI...

Wi-Fi adapter: Intel WM3945ABG. Though this info does not appear when I run lspci -knn | grep -A2. When I run rfkill list all it says there is no hard or soft blocked on Bluetooth but does not mention...

Published at LXer: This is the third in a series of conversations with developers who build and maintain open source music players. Craig Drummond is the developer and maintainer of Cantata, an...

I installed a Buildroot system. This is a very minimal Linux that is mostly just busybox. Nonetheless, it can get on-line (cable, not wifi) and it can run the bedrock installer script just fine. Note,...

hi to all, I've centos7.5 in VM. I am trying to compile to SDL2 program. but having following problem :- Code: --------- /usr/local/lib/libSDL2_ttf.so||undefined reference to `SDL_RWseek'|...

Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: This bash script will delete log files and folders that are older than 10 days, once in a day. Read More......

I've got it running Windows 10 and Ubuntu. I followed the pretty generic Ubuntu tutorial I've found in a few spots and had no issues with the install. It took a bit longer to realise I had to unlock...

Published at LXer: Ternimal simulates a lifeform in the terminal using Unicode block symbols. It’s a script written in Rust. It has no dependencies and consumes very few resources. Read More......

Published at LXer: Early each year, TIOBE announces its Programming Language of The Year. When its latest annual TIOBE index report came out, I was not at all surprised to see Python again winning...

I wish to become a Linux Guru. I realize to accomplish this it will take time and practice, but need a bit of 'nudging' to keep things going. My questions are how can I get more practice, where to get...

I've read about browsers trying to keep an errant tab from bringing down the whole browser by running a separate process for each tab. Sounds like a good idea but how does someone actually turn that...

Published at LXer: The gzip utility is Linux is a common tool to compress files, or in other words, to reduce their size. The original file, when compressed by gzip will have the extension .gz by...

After my light display manager died, I tried numerous fixes; ultimately purging lightdm, removing leftovers (autoremove), then installing a different dm (lxdm). (This was all dealt with in a...

hello, after recent update krita will not load for me: ---Quote--- krita: error while loading shared libraries: libquazip5.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ---End...

Good afternoon Community, hoping someone can give some advice. We have a joystick running on a piece of equipment running RHEL 7.7 server that has software that looks for the joystick at JS0....

Published at LXer: One of the fathers of Kubernetes says enterprise customers see the most benefit from the community-driven approach because their users get the opportunity to influence the...

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my Windows 10 desktop (Dell) dual boot system. I know I'm not the first to forget my su password. I'm looking for the default password. I'm sure I didn't change the...

Running the steam flatpak, I get this pulseaudio error when trying to play any game. Code: --------- ALSA lib ../../pulse/pulse.c:242:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection...

Recent Devuan install. At boot time, console font keeps changing to this sketchy hard to read font. Googled. Checked man pages. No ideas. Even read a README file in the rc2.d directory. Nope: fail. ...

Since I installed Mint 19 in March, I have been getting this message on screen very frequently. Cinnamon version 3.8.9, Linux Kernel 4.15.0-65-generic, Memory 7.7GB and Hard Disk 1735GB. *The...

I am trying to find two strings in a file, the first string will be a timestamp using a variable and the second string will always be POST i'd like to get this accomplished with one awk command and...

Hello I've had a cron job for years with these contents: Code: --------- sudo -i -u spamd /usr/local/bin/sa-update --------- This morning I got an email from root saying:

The LQ poll series continues. Have you ever modified the source code of an open source application? For the purpose of this poll, compiling from source (a poll on this coming soon) or just changing...

Published at LXer: A project in building a Free computer, using Free tools for both the OS and the hardware, turning an FPGA into a SoC with networking, video, storage, and PCIe. And it's...

Hi, I've got a Raspberry Pi 3 with Buster and I was trying to keep a BLE connection with my ESP32 (with the script I had before it connected just for the reading and then it disconnected) when I found...

Published at LXer: The first thing after installing a Linux OS as a server is configuring the network interface to have remote access and from your workstation/laptop. In this tutorial, we will use...

hi, netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 0.0.0.0 192.168.30.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ens33 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 ens33 ...

Published at LXer: Canonical has officially released today the highly anticipated Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) operating system, a major release that introduces numerous new features, new GNU/Linux...

hi to all, UI've centos 7.5 in VM for SDL2 programming. while this error is in "IMG_Load(filepath.c_str());" error is following Code: --------- [rahul@centos75client Release]$ ./diffrent\...

I've looked, and could not find one. I wonder if there is a specfic reason for this, a lack of interest, or what?

I've recently upgraded motherboard, cpu and ram from an older Intel platform to the new Ryzen 3000 series and I'm getting hard crashes (last second of audio repeats a few times and then resets) when...

as expected, when images are scanned from negs or from slides -- or from prints -- the EXIF data doesn't include the date taken you can go back with the program jhead -- and set the date/time -- to...

Hi I'm running Debian 10 with a AWUS052NH usb adapter. I have never had any problems with this device. Two days ago I turned on the machine and iwconfig wlan0 confirmed the device was up and...

Published at LXer: The screen command is a very common command used on Linux to launch and arrange multiple terminal shells within one single shell. Screen is most of the time used for two...

First of all, open your screen settings. Now on the screen, you can see the mail selection, click on it. You can see the mail account list, ignore it, and press the add account. Click the Other...

I have two Lenovo R500 Laptops with 4GB RAM and 64GB SSD drives. Both of them have the latest stable MX Linux installed and both of them had WiFi working without a problem, did all of the updates, did...

Published at LXer: This is quite a surprise! Early yesterday we were notified that Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, which Feral Interactive ported to Linux in 2015 has gained a Vulkan Beta. Read...