User David Tonhofer

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"/usr/bin/ping" is shown as yellow-on-red in the default Fedora bash color scheme -- what does it mean?

asked Nov 1, 2016 at 12:28

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Fedora boot screen shows both Fedora logo and Lenovo logo. Why and How?

asked Jun 20, 2019 at 11:24

10 votes

1 answer

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Probably a nit: "openssl x509" displays the serial number sometimes as octet string, sometimes as integer

asked Jun 17 at 15:19

10 votes

4 answers

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Firmware packages: What do they actually do?

asked Jul 13, 2018 at 16:18

7 votes

1 answer

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Why does fdisk insist on starting the first partition at sector 65535 (MiB 31.9995...)

asked Aug 14, 2016 at 14:54

5 votes

1 answer

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Using "LuxTrust Signing Stick" on Fedora (this is specific to Luxembourg)

asked Apr 6, 2015 at 14:21

5 votes

2 answers

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Linux GUI becomes very unresponsive when doing heavy disk I/O - what to tune?

asked Jan 21, 2019 at 8:50

4 votes

2 answers

912 views

lsblk column "RAND" aka "adds randomness" - what does it mean?

asked Apr 21, 2019 at 11:24

3 votes

2 answers

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USB flash drive formatted as "Linux Live CD" keeps the CD-ROM name after re-partitioning

asked Feb 4, 2016 at 20:21

2 votes

2 answers

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Is there a reason for ssh and sftp being so unintegrated?

asked Nov 18, 2014 at 11:43

1 vote

0 answers

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grub2-mkconfig creates grub2-efi.cfg different from the existing one, but why?

asked Dec 17, 2018 at 15:13

1 vote

1 answer

701 views

Linux console: All keyboard input is preceded by "^["

asked Mar 7, 2018 at 13:39

1 vote

2 answers

598 views

MariaDB slave server shall connect to 127.0.0.1:3307 to reach master. SELinux says no. What do?

asked Mar 21, 2018 at 18:34

1 vote

1 answer

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Copy & Paste unusable in KVM virtual machine (Ubuntu) when RStudio is running

asked Oct 16, 2019 at 9:24

1 vote

1 answer

108 views

Is there actually a "pad(3NCURSES)" manual page?

asked Mar 21, 2021 at 16:39

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"/usr/bin/ping" is shown as yellow-on-red in the default Fedora bash color scheme -- what does it mean?

Fedora boot screen shows both Fedora logo and Lenovo logo. Why and How?

Probably a nit: "openssl x509" displays the serial number sometimes as octet string, sometimes as integer

Firmware packages: What do they actually do?

Why does fdisk insist on starting the first partition at sector 65535 (MiB 31.9995...)

Using "LuxTrust Signing Stick" on Fedora (this is specific to Luxembourg)

Linux GUI becomes very unresponsive when doing heavy disk I/O - what to tune?

lsblk column "RAND" aka "adds randomness" - what does it mean?

USB flash drive formatted as "Linux Live CD" keeps the CD-ROM name after re-partitioning

Is there a reason for ssh and sftp being so unintegrated?

grub2-mkconfig creates grub2-efi.cfg different from the existing one, but why?

Linux console: All keyboard input is preceded by "^["

MariaDB slave server shall connect to 127.0.0.1:3307 to reach master. SELinux says no. What do?

Copy & Paste unusable in KVM virtual machine (Ubuntu) when RStudio is running

Is there actually a "pad(3NCURSES)" manual page?