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I've been using Eric's Steam client for a few months now with no issue on 14.2. However, after the last couple of updates I just get a black screen. This is no major issue since I can play other games...

Hello, I'm curious about my use case, and the chance of getting malware that would actually effect my system. I work for a web hosting company, and run Slackware64 -current on my workstation....

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Linux Mint 19.2 Tina, Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-64-generic. Architecture: x86-64 based on Ubuntu 18.04 bionic.Trying to find suitable DVB T driver for a RTL2832U + R820T2 dongle.Not having any luck. Was...

Published at LXer: This article explains how to create your own Internet radio station. To achieve this we'll use Icecast and Mixxx open source programs running on Fedora or Debian, Ubuntu, Linux...

Published at LXer: One of the great things about open source software projects is that users can make meaningful contributions. With a large project like Fedora, there’s somewhere for almost...

Is anyone else having issues connecting to: https://www.xfce.org/ (slow?) https://archive.xfce.org/ (down?)

Published at LXer: Canonical released today the beta version of its upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) operating system, due for release later this fall. Read More......

will defragging an ssd destroy it and if so, is there a way to prevent that with a linux OS? I am running Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64bit. I was told a while back that Linux systems auto-defrag either on...

We have a kernel module using filename_lookup call which is not exported anymore in RHEL8 Kernel 4.18. But found another system call exported in /proc/kallsyms, which is filename_lookup.part.64 ...

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hi all newbie here and would like to know if there are gimp on linuxmint 19.2 mate video tutorials out there have a nice day thanks

Hello, I have just installed NetBSD 8.1 on my desktop, but I have a problem with X session. The keyboard responded very slow when I typed. It missed key strokes, and sometimes it repeated one key...

I bought a Wise Tiger USB Adapter, knowing that it works with Linux, I installed it, but when I launch my Kali VirtualBox, I don't see it at all on Ifconfig. It only shows me "eth0" and "lo" When I...

Published at LXer: The GNU Debugger (gdb) is an invaluable tool for inspecting running processes and fixing problems while you're developing programs.You can set breakpoints at specific locations...

I tried this: linux deepin, weather indicator, -widget But did not yield anything worth looking into. Thanks

My Thai teacher gave me a link to a site which contains typing drills in thai. "thaiedu.net/typing".Although I can access the site, I cannot use the drills properly and get a score. Can anyone sort...

Hi, I have a weird issue which I diagnosed all the way back to simply being that if I mount `devtmpfs` then launch ACPID daemon, i get console output, if I don't mount `devtmpfs`, the ACPI daemon...

Looking for a skilled bash scripter to help me over the weekend or a long day. We will be working with a 72 bay hard drive wiper to create a basic script to blink activity lights of drives below...

I'm having a problem with English language packs. Linux Mint 19.2 installed Firefox with packs for English Great Britain and English Canada. Since I am in U.S. and some spellings are different I...

Published at LXer: GNOME is an easy and elegant way to use your computer. It's designed to put you in control and get things done. Read More......

I change from elilo to Clover because I was bored. I like it a lot. I just don't like the ubuntu logo embedded on the drive. Anyone know how to fix this?

'ls -s' gives me kilobytes. I just want 'ls' in bytes and filename. No date and time, etc. What is the right command?

When i enter the following. mount -t cifs //192.168.2.1/mynetwork/PNY32GBA This is the error Msg. mount: can't find //192.168.2.1/mynetwork/PNY32GBA in /etc/fstab I tried to create /etc/fstab...

Published at LXer: CentOS 8 has been finally released on the 24th of September 2019, and it has come with a lot of very great features for system administrators. This tutorial provides step-by-step...

I'm new to Linux (I guess two years aren't enough). And I'm mostly for being in touch with the Slackware community here. But i hope that this will be the point I start going deeper into amazing world...

Published at LXer: Linux “packages” are just collections of software, and how you install them varies from distro to distro. There are a few ways to quickly check whether a package is currently...

I installed BL 5 on my desktop and all worked fine until I updated the system. Now the old problem of not being able to open synaptic from the menu (pxexec) has come back. I had this problem with BL...

When you consider the choices for internet browsers on a Linux Mint 18.3 box, which are: 1) most secure, 2) most robust, and 3) most feature-laden. I have used FireFox, and I am currently using...

If I run a CLI script in my /home/username directory I need to enter something like:- *./filename*. I can understand the presence of the dot - perhaps indicating the current directory, but why the...

Published at LXer: We may need to perform some commands on the remote machine. To do so, log in to a remote system and do it, if it’s once in a while. Yes, SSH allows you to run a command on a...

Okay, I just reinstalled Linux Mint 18.3 (after a brief experience with Linux Mint 19.2), and I forgot how/where I made the changes to open Opera maximized (full-screen mode). Where do I make the...

Hello! I am looking at this Asus addon card that holds 4 M.2 SSD drives and can RAID them together, but I have a couple of questions. First off, can Linux actually use it as a raid volume? Can I...

Our kernel module has been using filename_lookup API, which is not found in RHEL8 with kernel 4.18 (symbol not found in /proc/kallsyms). What is the alternative API/call I can use in place of...

Our kernel module has been using *filename_lookup* API, which is not found in *RHEL8 (kernel 4.18.x)* (symbol not found in /proc/kallsyms). What is the alternative API/call I can use in place of...

Published at LXer: The Document Foundation has announced the general availability of the second maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 6.3 open-source and cross-platform office suite series....

I have added e23 to the bodhi linux 5.x testing repo and this time I have tried to do it in a way that, I hope, allows it, to peacefully in a fashion coexist with moksha. To install add our...

Not urgent, nothing broken, just a passing new-to-me mystery. How does dolphin determine a file's mimetype? There are install scripts in "/var/lib/pkgtools/scripts" that dolphin thinks are Type:...

Published at LXer: After welcoming more than 30,000 visitors in Berlin, New York, and London, The Glass Room is coming to San Francisco on October 16, 2019. From the tech boom to techlash, … ...

I have a new LUN zoned to the system, RHEL 6.10 and what do I do to add it to a volume group once I see the device file such as: /dev/sdx I have seen the sequence of commands but is there a...

A few weeks ago I ordered my first VR headset which just arrived today. I have what seems to be a Linux specific issue which prevents me from being able to use it. As I paid 50$ to get it shipped from...

Published at LXer: It is no mystery why modern social media platforms were designed to be addictive: the more we consult them, the more data they have to fuel them—which enables them to grow...

Hello dear people, I try to find out how programs are usually started in embedded Linux-based devices. In addition to own considerations and web research i wanted to resolve this as a kind of "expert...

Dear all i am new on linux system and my flavor is Open suse. i want to create a group and give the group root privilege. i need command to action that.

After a boot fiasco, I wanted to bring this box from a single SSD, to a SSD RAID. My ASRock box has room for 6 drives: 3 SSD, 3 3.5" normal drives. Currently, this is my setup: 1 SSD: /...

a recent client demands that VPN be installed on his system. he's also a terrible tight-wad and doesn't want to pay to use a service like ExpressVPN From what I gather, researching this the last...

Hello, This is about fail2ban. Can somebody explain me the purpose and differences between the following configuration files please? * /etc/fail2ban/action.d/mail-buffered.conf *...

I got the following info from armbian.com. # download public key from the database: gpg --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key DF00FAF1C577104B50BF1D0093D6889F9F0E78D5 gpg --verify...

hi, I am trying to install common API wamp runtime in ubuntu 18.04. but durimg "sudo make install" I am getting few warings. Can anybody please help me on rectifying it. I have attached the log...

Published at LXer: Vanilla is a free, open-source discussion forum written in PHP. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Vanilla Forum on FreeBSD 12 by using Nginx as the web server,...