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Published at LXer: Growing Pains, a platformer where you're growing constantly as you rush to finish each level before getting stuck is now available on Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: According to the now traditional schedule, Akademy 2019 started with two days of conference talks. Hosted by unixMIB at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Milan, Italy, the...

Hello, I need some recommendations for a distribution, I'll try to get straight to the point. Posted this on a subreddit, didn't get responses. Seeking: Lightweight daily driver Daily Use: -...

did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade for Ubuntu 18.04 and cannot start Ubuntu. Able to crawl back into an older kernel 4.15.0-45-generic but that's an old install. Can drop into a root shell for...

Published at LXer: By default, Vim doesn’t show line numbers, but they can be easily turned on. Vim supports three modes of line numbering that helps you navigate through the files. In addition to...

Protonmail seems too complicated for me. Tutanota looks good but I figured I'd ask you guys for suggestions. Thanks.

I went to get this program and rather than referring me to the Software center or Synaptic it has an .appimage file. Never heard of such a thing. It seems like an .exe file but for Linux. Are these...

Anybody here using SMPlayer? For a few weeks now I am unable to watch youtube videos. A fresh profile does not help. I suspect the built-in youtube-dl code. I can use the most recent version of...

Published at LXer: Jakarta EE will enable the enterprise Java community to “deliver an enormous amount of value and innovation going forward." Read More......

Code: --------- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop --------- the last line returns

Published at LXer: Learn how to read Linux file permissions and how to use chmod to modify them Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/introduction-chmod)

Hi all, New Slacker in town! I apologize in advance for any mistakes/easy solutions that I somehow forgot. Slackware has been a journey, but I'm loving it. I've search Google and forums for a...

Published at LXer: For those who haven’t heard, the newest version of the Raspberry Pi (RPi) has been released. Technically it is the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (RPi4). The Raspberry Pi 4 is a 64-bit...

Published at LXer: Students everywhere are returning to school this season. But to what kinds of schools are they returning?Are their classrooms organized like industrial-era factory floors, built...

Published at LXer: The rsync command allows the administrator to synchronize the local backup with the remote server. Read More......

I have Slackware64-current on a twin core laptop with 6G ram. Memory usage is light. I had a problem with hibernation and fixed the problem, and want to document it for posterity, because it's *soo...

Used to turn off a router temporarily whenever a new public IP was needed, which took almost 3 minutes to get back up and running. Then instead of this, unplugged the telephone cable for 5 seconds,...

I try to run the script below from Ubuntu "rc.local" file. The file /home/pi/ramdisk/ESP is created correctly but "while" loop seam to not work. The same script run from CLI or cron, works properly....

Published at LXer: Curl is a command-line utility for transferring data from or to a remote server. Read More... (https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-and-use-curl-on-debian-10/)

root@shawn-fernandes:/opt/idevicerestore# sudo make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory '/opt/idevicerestore' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory '/opt/idevicerestore/src' ...

Published at LXer: FLOSS is penetrating the government sector of countries throughout the world. That holds true right here in the good ole U.S.A. A world that was intent on utilizing proprietary...

Published at LXer: MySQL workbench is a graphical application which let us manage data and perform administrative tasks on MySQL databases. In this tutorial we will see how to install the program...

Adding a password when you installed without setting the password for startup a question that has puzzled me but never needed it. Now a customer did not set his password and this evil man who has...

Gripping story telling, unfortunately a true story... :(

Hello! My GPU is GeForce G102M, proprietary driver version 340.107, system - Slackware 14.2 stable, 32 bit. Now I'm using kernel 4.4.157, and there's no problem with nvidia driver. Yesterday I...

Is it possible to get lamp offline installer.

Published at LXer: Purism has revealed its shipping schedule for its privacy-oriented Librem 5 smartphone. Comprised of six iterations, the shipping schedule spans from this month into Q4 2020,...

recently i was hacked. or at least think I was hacked. in the process of damage control ive manage to lock myself out of my own pc. forgot admin password - wiped windows something or other. in other...

Hello, Here is a mystery. My script is the following: Code: --------- #!/bin/bash set -xv quota_report=$(mktemp)

Published at LXer: The Envoy S solar system monitor runs Linux and contains a Web server. Two simple requests to that server will return real-time and summary data for the system as a whole and for...

Application guy gave me two .pem files for two sites.i will need to replace it in proper path in the web server . Kindly help me step by step process to accomplish that. my old certs are in the...

We are trying to connect to FCM XMPP but due to some restriction on the internal LAN this flow is not allowed. We are thinking of creating a forward proxy for this purpose. The reason is that Google...

Published at LXer: The GNOME Project announced the availability of the final milestone in the development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 3.34 desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems. ...

i unable to do ssh after changing password getting permission denied error. chage ::: Last password change : Sep 09, 2019 Password expires : Oct 09, 2019 Password inactive : never Account...

Published at LXer: Mumble, the free VoIP application, has reached version 1.3.0 stable after more than 2 and a half years since the previous stable release, and almost 10 years since the last...

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some help. I'm not a Linux newbie, more of a regular user. I'm not really experienced in C-programming (have done it as university course, but not much), but...

Hi all, I am trying to setup splunk to monitor all the remote hosts on a Splunk server. Without any issues, i have set up the Splunk server. I have installed the Universal forwader on Remote host...

Published at LXer: Apache CouchDB is a free and open-source NoSQL database solution. Apache CouchDB has a document-oriented NoSQL database architecture and is implemented in the...

Hello all, I'm struggling to convert a groovy variable to use in a bash command. Any help would be great. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong? def teamname = "${loweritam}" ...

I have piece of software (vms (https://www.exacq.com/support/downloads.php)) that I need to install on Manjaro. Found some info on debtap (https://github.com/helixarch/debtap/blob/master/README.md)...

I have to make a command to work when connecting to AIX 7.1 (used by an internal software). I have a linux server L where the following command is runned Code: --------- ssh -t ls...

Hi. I like linux.

Dear all, Here is my current smb.conf ---Quote--- # See smb.conf.example for a more detailed config file or # read the smb.conf manpage. # Run 'testparm' to verify the config is correct after...

Published at LXer: If you want to manage your Kubernetes container images securely and reliably, you should check out the latest release of Red Hat Quay. Read More......

I have just joined. Linux GUI is at very impressive level these days and I'm tired of the other Windowed OS that - even I have paid for - I don't really own. I'm hoping to switch both my home and...

I am reading online about how to do this, if possible, but any expert opinions would be appreciated very much. The corrupted files are on a fat-formatted flash that i'm using on debian. The...

I try to add this line to the Compose file Code: --------- : "É›" U025B --------- In fact, I'm unable to load a modified Compose file at all. I...

Please allow me to first provide some background info..... I wanted a computer and I knew that I wanted it to have maximum flexibility for upgrading. Because I had heard that computer...

Hi folks, As the title says, I am confused about "echo # > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" and blockdev --flushbufs. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/file-implementation.pdf According to...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will show you how to install and configure Samba as a file storage system for Windows and Linux OS. We will also show you how to access Samba shared files...