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Hello As I'm not too into writing content for the web site, I've made it so that the 2nd news article has (mostly) live data about the on-going builds for -current. http://arm.slackware.com/ ...

I've been looking at the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator test the last few days to determine my personality type according to the test. Of course this is not infallible and there is a small error margin,...

Published at LXer: Valve and CodeWeavers have once again updated Steam Play Proton as they react quickly to issues that appear. This open source compatibility layer for Linux is progressing very...

hello. I installed debian buster but I am unable to connect to a wireless network eventhough I made a full upgrade.

I want Thunderbird to auto start with firejail and that too minimized to tray. How can I achieve this ? Distro: Manjaro KDE Thunderbird : 68.1.0 (64-bit)

Hi, I am using "Fedora release 18" system and trying to get remote desktop session for windows server. *[john@linsvr home]$ rdesktop wink8svr* Autoselected keyboard map en-us ERROR: No...

Published at LXer: Exploring IPv6? Here's how to set it up on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8 systems. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/configuring-ipv6-rhel-7-8)

Published at LXer: The GNOME Foundation is facing a lawsuit from Rothschild Patent Imaging, LLC. Patent troll Rothschild allege that Shotwell photo manager infringes its patent. Read More......

Published at LXer: The rsync command allows the Linux administrator to synchronize files between local and remote system. Read More......

Published at LXer: This article is about the installation of two famous drawing applications on Ubuntu, that give you the same experience as MS Paint. These are the XPaint and Pinta tools. Read...

Hi , Need query on active x package availability on solaris 10 version .If so please share the path to download In a need of activex to implement web cam enhancement in some ERP Regards,...

I copied an entire flash drive to a hdd as a single file using the dd command. Then I copied that single file to external media using a different dd command, below. The file is of "unknown kind" and...

Published at LXer: One day, IPv6 will become the norm rather than the exception. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/what-you-need-know-about-ipv6)

Hello group, I have a problem with the accents, with after an update of Linux Mint KDE 18.2 Sonia, I cannot write in Konsole, Kate, Dolphin and some other programs the Spanish accents in the...

I have recently installed on a desktop PC Slackware 14.2 (64-bit) with a KDE desktop environment. Sometimes when I click on an icon in the bottom panel nothing happens. The mouse pointer stays in...

Trying to install debian-live-10.1.0-amd64-xfce on a previous Mint Deleting any partition but the boot one, no grub is installed If I create manually partitions (EFI, boot, swap, home) isn't able to...

Now that increasingly fewer pages can be referred to in that way because they are rather applications not pages, is it possible for a web page to capture the user's session screen, including the...

Published at LXer: FreeIPA is a free and open-source Identity, Policy, and Audit (IPA) suite sponsored by RedHat. It's an IPA solution combination of Linux (Fedora), 389 Directory Server, MIT...

Published at LXer: Every system administrator needs to have at least a basic understanding of network troubleshooting. And the first rule of network troubleshooting to remember is, "Packets don't...

Hello, I have been working with Ubuntu Mint and feeling I'm getting somewhere. For my bookstore I have a special POS application which I wrote myself on dBase and has served me well for 30 years....

Published at LXer: The dropbear suite provides both an ssh server and a client application (dbclient), and represents a light alternative to OpenSSH. Since it has a small footprint and uses system...

I'm trying to understand more about managing software. I have burned some software from my Windows pc and dropped them onto the Desktop of my Rhel machine. I have some repositories set up, but I'm...

My machine boots using UEFI but as far as I can tell it boots, or at least makes a first attempt to boot, from the wrong disk. I have an 8 to 10 year old ASUS N76VZ computer, which I bought because it...

Hi, I'm new to Linux and to these forums as well. I'm using the Chrome Linux (beta) which I believe is Debian 9? The command line is exhibiting strange behavior. I've reinstalled it three times,...

Hello, After upgrading bodhi after installation, Vim appears in my application menu. I Want to remove it with the CLI command sudo apt remove vim. But, the terminal answers that Vim is not...

I've posted about this before, but I'm narrowing down what the problem is. I have hardware which connects via USB, but increasingly doesn't mount automatically as distros get updated. The problem...

Hi, I wrote an highly unoptimized script that reads a one-column file containing values as the one and only argument. As far as I've tested it, it does the job correctly, but slowly. IQR stands...

Published at LXer: Purism, the hardware manufacturer known for their security and privacy focused Linux laptops, announced that the new Librem 5 Linux phone has started shipping to customers around...

Published at LXer: System administrators (sysadmins) waste thousands of hours each year on repetitive tasks. Fortunately, web apps, built using open source tools, can automate a significant portion...

Hey guys, how can I install the packages dotnet or .netcore on slackware? Thanks for your answers!

Hi, I'm Atiq Rahman from Bangladesh. I'm a retired person keen to learn to use Linux efficiently. I've a desktop with Raspberry Pi 4 and the latest version of Raspbian. I've joined LQ with the hope...

Published at LXer: This is the first release for CentOS Linux 8 and is version marked as 8.0-1905, derived from sources published by Red Hat, delivered via git.centos.org Read More......

Published at LXer: There are times when your computer is running slow because some apps are using a large amount of memory. Here's how to fix high memory usage issue in Linux. Read More......

Hello! As a preface I'd like to state right out of the gate that I am fairly new to Linux, so please bear with me if there are obvious I ask questions about. I am currently looking for a way to...

Published at LXer: The NVIDIA Driver is a program needed for your NVIDIA Graphics GPU to function with better performance. It communicates between your Linux operating system, in this case CentOS...

Followed these instructions to install x11vnc - https://linoxide (dot) com/linux-how-to/tools-enable-remote-desktop-access-rhel-centos-7/ Opened tcp port 5900 and 5901 in the linux firewall. ...

Hi I have installed (Rambox-0.6.9-linux-x86_64.rpm). The installation went fine and the program is installed in (/compat/linux/opt/Rambox). Now, when I try to execute this program, it gives following...

hi, this VM (with 8 vcpu)is running rhel and top %Cpu(s): 65.3 us, 13.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 11.4 id, 8.9 wa So wa is 8.9. iostat -d 2 3 device tps xvdg 2263.76 xvdj ...

Published at LXer: Jetty is an open-source HTTP Servlet Server written entirely in Java. It is designed to be lightweight, high-performance, embeddable, extensible, and flexible, thus making it an...

Hi All, I have configured the Nagios server on Centos 7 and added a windows' client on it. But when i checked the services on the dashboard of nagios it says "CRITICAL - Socket timeout". It looks...

Hello, I have a host with a VM, connected to one IPv6 forwarding PC in the lab and a Firewall to the Internet. I'm using a macvlan bridge. Here is what the setup script looks like: Code:...

Published at LXer: Canonical has announced the winners of the Ubuntu wallpaper competition and unveiled the default wallpapers for the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) operating system. Read...

As the thread title says; I have some questions about both structures and pointers. While a pointer isn't a structure and vice versa; I figured rather than starting two separate threads, and since one...

Hello, I had recently migrated my servers between two domains: biz-old.com -> biz-new.net /etc/hostname contains pute host name, i.e. "my-host" without the domain. I checked {yp,nis,}domainname and...

hi, with what command can i see if an ldap account is locked?

Published at LXer: Red Hat[he]#039[/he]s little brother server operating system will now come with a rolling release option: CentOS Stream for developers. Read More......

Good morning, first post to linuxquestions.. Im still a relatively new linux user. I currently run Ubuntu 18.04 on my desktop, and thinking of switching from unity desktop to Cinnamon.

Morning folks, So due to the kids wanting to play some games on Steam, I am required to install the Multilib from Alienbob. I have followed Alienbobs Quick n Dirty Instructions and everything...

Good Morning from Northeastern USA, Hi everyone! My name is Michael and I actually signed up last night, but I was getting a little sleepy. I figured–correctly–that the World would not stop...

I'm trying to change the default directory for xfce4-terminal but not having success. It opens in the Desktop and I don't want this because I like to start up in my home folder and it annoys me to...