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I tried a few Distros on USB sticks and a few that I managed to install onto external USB hard drives and finally settled on Enso OS to install on the internal SSD drive in my Dell Inspiron. I gave...

Hi All! i have an OpenSuse server that acts like a master that has 2 network cards. one network card is connected to external network with internet access and the other one is configured as...

Published at LXer: When it comes to console-based music software, I really admire musikcube, a wonderful audio engine, library, player and server written in C++. This review looks at an alternative...

I've set up an email server using Postfix 3.3.0 on Ubuntu 18.04, on an EC2 instance. Sending emails to and from my server and external email services (eg gmail) is working just fine. The only issue...

Published at LXer: The last decade or so has seen Debian largely repositioned as an upstream distribution, making it an essential component of the desktop Linux infrastructure. Does your distro...

Published at LXer: The Wi-Fi Alliance announced today the availability of the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 certification program for vendors to provide customers with the latest and greatest Wi-Fi experience....

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Published at LXer: Ranger is a lightweight and powerful file manager that works in a terminal window. It comes with the Vi key bindings. It offers a smooth way to move into directories, view files...

type command upower -d which dumps some info. the top two parameters suspend and hibernation are set "yes" read through the dbus-1 stuff, and the new stuff directed to in the /usr and etc. ...

Published at LXer: There is a notion that a lot of people working in the IT industry often copy & paste from internet howtos. We all do it, and the copy & paste itself is not a problem. The problem...

Would it be a good idea to have manpages.slackware.com, the way NetBSD and Debian, for example, host their man pages at the TLD? Sometimes all I have for the day is a tablet and I find myself...

Published at LXer: The sar command allows you to check various historical performance data of the Linux system. Read More......

Hello! I have Ubuntu 16.04 (Desktop Edition) with OpenVPN server and BIND9 installed. I used a script when I installed OpenVPN. My OpenVPN client is a W10 netbook with 4G USB modem. When I choose to...

I posted this at the KDE forums, but they don't get much traffic so I thought I'd try here. When I try to run KMail I get the following error: Code: --------- kmail: relocation error:...

Published at LXer: There are many different ways to solve problems in computing. You might "brute force" your way to a solution by calculating as many possibilities as you can, or you might take a...

Slackware-current 64 bit, last updated this morning 9/16/2019. I'm trying to build Mariadb-10.4.8 from source, using their mysql config: cmake ../ -DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release And it gives...

Published at LXer: There are a few ways to convert video files on Linux. If you're a fan of command line tools, check out our FFMPEG video conversion guide. This guide is going to focus on...

Hey fellas, I'm new here! Here's a little about me - I'm 28 years old, and am in the middle of a significant "career" focus change. I graduated with a bachelors degree in Biology several years ago...

Published at LXer: Linus Torvalds announced today the release of the Linux 5.3 kernel series, a major that brings several new features, dozens of improvements, and updated drivers. Read More......

Hello members System: Server: debian 10 (Buster) I am trying to configure my debian server with postfix to relay my server mails through mail.gmx.com to another email id. I have the following...

I have a Kinesis Freestyle for 10 years now, but was never really happy with it. One problem is that the letters on the left half slant up to the left, like on a normal keyboard. An ergo keyboard...

Published at LXer: There are many reasons you might need to find out details about your computer hardware. For example, if you need help fixing something and post a plea in an online forum, people...

What non-expensive / free courses and training would be recommended for learning a lot about Linux (i.e. including shell scripting, administration, window manager configuration and programming, tools,...

Published at LXer: Learn how to use Linux Screen to detach and reattach terminal sessions, create split screen terminal sessions, monitor sessions for activity or inactivity and the basics of...

I figured this question is not specific to certain distros in Linux and about Linux in general. How much should one experience a distro in order to become proficient at it? For example, to go from...

I have the following homework question: Code: --------- Write a function with the following prototype: /* Determine whether arguments can be subtracted without overflow */ int tsub_ok(int x,...

how to find a deviceuri number?

Published at LXer: If you are working on a Bash script that interacts with files and directories, you might encounter a situation where you need to make sure that the file or directory exists. This...

update-manager crashes on first step so fast that no message can be read. Can anyone please help ?

Published at LXer: On September 27th, dozens of indie developers will come together virtually to develop video games using open source software. This date marks the third annual Open Jam, a...

I had been using Fedora 25. So I backed up my data and installed Fedora over that. My Windows 8 installation still shows up in the netbook boot menu, as does the Windows recovery. But it just...

Published at LXer: As a system administrator, it is very likely that you spend a lot of time doing recurring tasks on your system. Luckily for you, there is a way to automate tasks on Linux...

I have a transcend 1TB external Drive. I recently ran into an issue where the drive won't mount on macos or windows. I also tried using SMART tools to scan and the following output is pasted...

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Chapter 5. Host system is LFS 8.4. Code: --------- Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory '/home/lena/Data/LFS-build-chroots/netlux-9.0/build/build/gettext-0.20.1/gettext-tools/src'...

Also, any changes I make to resolv.conf get overwritten, even though in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf I specify DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]=“yes”. On boot, I can see it add 192.168.0.1 when getting up the wifi. ...

Published at LXer: Webmin is an open-source web control panel for administering Linux servers. It allows you to manage the system users, groups, disk quotas as well as install and configure web,...

Hello, I am new here and want to try Linux once again... I have Mint 19 on a bootable USB stick, and Ihave created a partition on C: where I want to install Mint. I would like to use EasyBCD to...

hi guys, I've created a github repo for storing nftables rules for desktop. If you have suggestions and ways to improve the rules for a desktop firewall let me know in github. here is the link. ...

Hello Folks, i was stuck in a code not able to understand how to change this. problem statement i need to convert this code from argparse to cliff module using python 3.0 the code

Published at LXer: While not available for Linux, No Man's Sky can be run through Steam Play and it appears Hello Games continue to keep an eye on it. Read More......

---Quote--- 'digital diagnostics are now in development for assessing some common paediatric conditions that are not serious or life-threatening. These technologies could have the potential to change...

Any KVM/virt-manager Slackers? I'm looking at some winter computer projects. One of which is learning KVM with a loose goal of migrating away from VirtualBox. Have any migration thoughts,...

I'm not too worried about fixing it but in Dolphin 18.08.0 on KDE 5.14.5 with kernel 5.2.0-2 in 64-bit Debian 5.2.9-2 ...I tried looking for my Videos folder (notice as the title says no .dot In...

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Hello, I am trying to compile Qt version 3.3.8 here. Yes, it is fairly old, but i have a private project i want to compile in it, so i need the Qt environment good for that. Before installing it...

Published at LXer: In this edition of our open source news roundup, Sandboxie[he]#039[/he]s path to*open source, update on the Pentagon[he]#039[/he]s adoption of open source, open source in...

Published at LXer: Today the GNOME project announced the release of GNOME 3.34. This latest release of GNOME will be the default desktop environment in Fedora 31 Workstation. The Beta release of...

I have installed Debian 10 and the installer has installed Libre Office 6.1.5.2. This is not really a Debian question but the Libre Office forum is just about unusable and completely useless. Libre...

Hello! I've been using Linux for a whopping 2 weeks now, just going through the basics trying to set up my laptop to learn Java. I enabled Linux on the laptop and have been using the terminal to...