Linux is the family of Unix-like operating systems that use the Linux kernel.
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Is it Safe to write to linux Partition from Windows?
I do tasks some of which require Windows while some require Ubuntu and thus I sometime need to access linux from windows, though the reverse is easily possible.
So, I searched in google and got an ...
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How to blacklist a correct bad RAM sector according to MemTest86+ error imdocation?
MemTest86+ (the version included with Ubuntu 13.04) says
Failing address: 002f796c48 - 759.5 MB
What should I specify in the memmap kernel parameter to bypass this area?
I've tried running ...
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update-initramfs fails with 'File exists' errors during upgrade from lenny to squeeze
I am in the process of upgrading a machine from Debian Lenny to Squeeze (I know it was about time ;-) and ran into a weird error that boils down to the update-initramfs command complaining about some ...
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Measurement of free ram through /proc/meminfo with ramdisk (initrd)
I am booting a disk image via PXE, it is a full system on an initrd ramdisk. I would like to measure the actual free memory of the system (not including buffers and file system caching). I was told ...
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What is the best practice for adding disks in LVM
According to the Linux manpages you can add raw disks as well as partitions to a volume group.
In other documentation (RedHat, CentOS or openSUSE), all examples refer to adding partitions to the VG ...
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How to remove a locally installed library?
I had just compiled and installed libc locally into my home directory. Sadly, after this, virtually every basic utility like ls and xz failed to function.
The error message prompted up when ...
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restore filesystem after fdisk
I split a partition in two with fdisk, but after rebooting I've got partition in FAT filesystem (was ext4). What's can be wrong? And how to fix it or get data from bad partition? I hope this is ...
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how to re-enable input on a serial console
I have an old router which runs Linux and I'd like to have a serial console on. This used to work fine, but after a firmware update, I can now only get output on the console and cannot give any input ...
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compat-drivers-3.9 crash video card driver
I try to install wireless driver on my linux with compat-drivers-3.9. After installing compat-drivers-3.9 linux , the video driver seems to be crashed. The resolution is not correct. How can I restore ...
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obtaining kernel build tree
Could anyone explain me what the kernel build tree is?
What files does it include?
How can I obtain it from a cross-compiled kernel source (e.g. 3.4.0)?
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How do Linux drivers work and where do I find them? (esp. NIC driver)
I am wondering how a driver functions under Linux. Are drivers a single file that can be edited? Is there a list of current drivers in use or is there a different place to find them for each device?
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How to change the Linux Nadia splash screen?
I was wondering if it is possible for me to change the spash screen when Linux Mint is loading? I am talking about the logo of mint which apprears when you start the computer. If so what kind of file ...
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Debian Wheezy + Hostapd 1.0 + ath9k randomly failing
I got a problem with my soft AP.
I got an old PC running as router which has 3 NIC and 1 wifi PCI card TP-Link L-WN751ND. This box runs Debian Wheezy, hostapd, dhcpd etc. The problem is that AP ...
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unexpected bash behaviour after console login (openSUSE)
I'm trying to install a Linux OS on the computer I use as a home server, because I liked "Raspbian" so much on my Raspberry Pi. I created a custom linux using openSUSE Studio, that's just text based ...
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Including pending update list in motd
How would you include the list and / or count of pending updates in the welcome banner?
Eg.
username: User
password: *****
Hi 'User', welcome on 'localhost'
There are 8 pending updates, you need to ...
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Cross compiling expect for ARM
I have downloaded expect5.4 . I'm trying to cross compile it for ARM(PandaBoard) running stripped down version of linux.
In the initial setup of configuring , I try
Shell$ ./configure --host=ARM
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What type of permissions should a user's home directory and files have?
I'm working with a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 and I've just added a new user:
useradd -m testuser
I thought that the -m flag to create a home directory for users was pretty standard, but now ...
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Why GNU/Linux distributions and most of their apps developers don't take care of design [closed]
I'm Ubuntu user. I always have this question. Why design in GNU/Linux ditros is not always first priority? Apps are not really well designed (even ones provided by big companies like firefox for ...
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Dynamic file content generation: Satisfying a 'file open' by a 'process execution'
I have a read-only file, F.
A program, P, that I'm not the author of, needs to read F.
I want the content of F to come from another 'generator' program, G, whenever P tries to read F (taking F to ...
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Option “user” work for mount, not for umount
I am experimenting mounting options for a program I am writing. I am running Linux Mageia 2.
I added the following line to /etc/fstab
/dev/sr0 /mem auto user,noauto, 0 0
and I removed all other ...
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Upgrading I2C client drivers to the newer binding model
I am trying to port some I2C device drivers I wrote for an other kernel to work with the newer I2C binding model. The kernel documentation goes through the steps of doing this: ...
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Linksys AE3000 install on linux
I bought a Linksys AE3000 wireless adapter hoping I could use it on my Ubuntu 12.04 box. I found a website that walked through using it, but it didn't work. I edited rtusb_dev_id.c to add:
and then ...
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Asus X101H - Touchpad not recognized (want to disable while typing)
I have been struggling with this issue for a while and have done an exhaustive search for answers here and elsewhere before posting this question.
On my Asus X101H, the touchpad is not recognized as ...
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Linux disk I/O performance issue — what config options to look at?
We discovered an I/O related performance problem when using the default SLES11 SP2 kernel. Our same application on the same hardware had no issue with (the admittedly ancient SLES9 SP3).
We had a ...
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Multibooting FreeBSD and other Linux distros
Long story short: Have one laptop, need to multiboot FreeBSD/OpenBSD as well as a number of Linux distros.
Which one do you think should go first? FreeBSD offers a bootMgr, but I'm not sure how it ...
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Why there are two ifcfg-eth0 file but in different directory
I am trying to understand why there are 3 ifcfg-eth0 on my CentOS 6.4 server, they are hardlinks to the same file looks like.
Anyone knows why ?
$ ll /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
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Wireless on my Dell Latitude E5320 doesn't work on Ubuntu but works on Linux Mint. What can I do to make it work?
I have dualboot Ubuntu 12.10 & Linux Mint 14, both are clean install & updated with the latest. My wireless works flawlessly on Linux Mint but it's very unreliable on Ubuntu: every 15~20 ...
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How to Save X Session — ArchLinux+Openbox
I use Arch Linux and Openbox. How can I save the state of my current openbox/X session and later restart them?
The scenario is like this: I've several browsers windows open, terminals, file ...
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Can I use a parallel port as a CUPS input device?
I have an old piece of a hardware that does diagnostics on medical equipment. It prints out results over a parallel port. Is there any way to have CUPS accept jobs from a parallel port and redirect ...
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How can I display octal notation of permissions with ls - and can octal represent all permissions? [duplicate]
After looking at the man page for ls on my system and searching Google, I see there IS a hack of way to use awk or perl to show octal permissions when using ls, but with bash is there anything more ...
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Which set of commands will limit the outgoing data rate to X kbps for traffic to or from port Y?
I have a Raspberry Pi, and I'd like to have bitcoind running on it. This consumes a lot of my outgoing bandwidth at times, so I'd like to make sure it never uses more than 20 KB/s for Bitcoin data.
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No volume control in Nexuiz fullscreen mode
While playing Nexuiz on my Ubuntu in full screen mode the volume control buttons on my laptop don't work at all, externally after minimizing the game increasing/decreasing the sound solves the problem ...
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Change ip addr label in Linux
How can I change the eth0 zero to eth0:1 using ip addr without deleting.
When I run
ip addr show eth0
Here is the output
2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
link/ether ...
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“No such file or directory” on an executable, yet file exists and ldd reports all libraries present
ldd xls
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb77bc000)
libQtGui.so.4 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4 (0xb6cc2000)
libpng12.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0 (0xb6c98000)
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How does using linux affect your career and computer skills overall? [closed]
so I would really love to move to linux as my only OS, i had linux installed several times(different distros) But i always go back to windows. Sad, i know
Anyway I'm really into computers, i like ...
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Ignore Symlinks when Extracting Tarball
I have a relatively simple question that I cannot seem to find the answer for. I am attempting to extract a tarball (*.tgz, to be exact) and receiving terminal errors on extracted symlinks. ...
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slow media - disk cache tuning?
Is there any way to make the system more consistent when using LUKS? (or slow storage in general) as it is everything is snappy until the write buffer is full, then everything grinds to a halt as the ...
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How to find speed of wlan interface?
I'm trying to find speed of network interface using file-descriptor. It's easy to do it for ethX, just calling cat /sys/class/net/eth0/speed. Unfortunately this method doesn't work with wireless ...
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What module for network card Intel Corporation Device 1521?
I'm installing a new server and I'm not able to figure out what module should I load to make its on-board network card work. Calling lspci prints:
Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 1521
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ffmpeg: problems when copying the audio
When I run this ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -codec copy video.avi I get a broken audio: a crackling like a stuck LP. The input-audio is aac
When I re-encode the audio like this ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -codec:v:0 ...
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nme for linux target setup fails on debian
I'm trying to run
haxelib run nme setup linux
To set up NME for the Linux target on my Debian box. Actually Linux MINT Debian Edition, but that shouldn't matter. However, I get the following ...
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Using source routing (LSRR) - any ideas?
What I want to do is conceptually very simple, but I can't find any information or help about how to go about doing this.
Basically, I want to configure my networking to use source routing (LSRR). ...
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Create custom wordlist
I want to create a custom list of (scientific) words for purposes like spell checking and OCR based on my collection of scientific papers in pdf format. Using pdftotext I can easily create a text file ...
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Undestanding the output of route -n
Hi there can someone explain me what the out put of route -n?
# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 ...
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How do I detect wheter the audio cable is connected?
I'm using Ubuntu Lucid (10.04). In my shell script running as root I want to detect whether an audio cable (analog jack) is connected to the laptop or not. How do I do that? I don't need a portable ...
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Lightweight isolated linux environment
I want an isolated (guest) Linux environment on my computer that I can mess up without worrying about the host. E.g. install a lot of stuff from source without package management, pollute environment ...
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What does longterm mean on kernel.org?
It's fairly easy to understand EOL, mainline and stable kernel, but I'm not sure about longterm here,
What does it mean, or how does it differ from stable kernel?
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Can iptables be used to convert a single-homed host into a NAT server?
Given: I have a machine (HostA) with only one NIC which has Internet connectivity. I have another machine (HostB) with one NIC on the same switch. HostB is not configured for Internet access yet. ...
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Remote linux using vnc and gdm without login
I remote linux server by using vnc and gdm. This link is very good but I would like to remote linux server using vnc viewer without login.
May I know your suggestion?
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IPTables - Port to another ip & port (from the inside)
I currently have a NAS box running under port 80. To access the NAS from the outside, I mapped the port 8080 to port 80 on the NAS as follow:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 8080 -j DNAT ...
