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Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux distribution for system administrators, based on Debian. The project has published version 125 which attempts to offer more flexible package management through a combination of Debian's Testing and Unstable repositories. "Today marks the release of Finnix 125, the original utility live....

prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: The Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix distribution has become an official Ubuntu flavor and will join the rest of the flavors starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) release. Created and maintained by members of the Linux community, Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix is an Ubuntu derivative that features the modern Cinnamon desktop environment developed by the Linux Mint team. Cinnamon Remix aims to offer a traditional approach to the modern Linux desktop. Until now, the maintainers of Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix did a very good job keeping up with all upstream Ubuntu releases, even offering a custom version of the official wallpaper of each new Ubuntu release to match the Cinnamon desktop environment's style. Ubuntu Cinnamon will not be the only new official Ubuntu flavor this Spring when Ubuntu 23.04 will be released as the maintainers of Ubuntu Unity have also managed to obtain official Ubuntu flavor status last year in September. As with Ubuntu Unity, the next step now for the Ubuntu Cinnamon maintainers is to bake daily ISO images in preparation for the upcoming Lunar Lobster release and maybe even take part in the Ubuntu 23.04 beta release later this week on March 30th. The latest Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix release and can be downloaded here.

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Vanilla OS is shaking things up with a move from Ubuntu to Debian Sid. Learn what led the developers to make this decision.

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The Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix distribution has officially become an official Ubuntu flavor and will join the rest of the flavors starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) release.

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The Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix distribution has officially become an official Ubuntu flavor and will join the rest of the flavors starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) release.

Hi, I’ve bought an external NVMe and the first time I’ve tried to copy a (large) folder it was super slow.

I’ve immediately thought of some defects but smartctl doesn’t report anything wrong, then I’ve tried again to copy (multiple times) the same folder and other files and now it’s super fast as it should be. What could have been the problem the first time? I didn’t have any program in background eating resources when I tried and I have a very powerful PC (AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX).

I’m on Kubuntu 22.04 with latest 6.2.7 kernel and I’ve always tried with the same USB port which is an USB 3.0 type.

Learn about the latest features and improvements in Debian 12 Bookworm, the newest stable version of the Debian operating system.

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Tomasz Jokiel announced today the general availability of Porteus Kiosk 5.5 as the latest stable update to this Gentoo-based GNU/Linux distribution for kiosks, digital signage, and public computers.

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Tomasz Jokiel announced today the general availability of Porteus Kiosk 5.5 as the latest stable update to this Gentoo-based GNU/Linux distribution for kiosks, digital signage, and public computers.

Hello. My LAN at home is mostly made with Linux. Along the way is a MacBook Pro, and out of necessity, a Windows 10 unit. Often, when using the Windows 10 app called "WinSCP" for doing file tranfers in the LAN, the result is that the Linux units lose their DNS functions. They can still partially use the Internet, however, for example, a "ping yahoo.com" results in the error message "Temporary failure in name resolution". In fact, there is nothing "temporary" about it, as the only way to get on track again is to shut down first the Linux machines, then the primary router, and then the modem, and then power those same units up in reverse order. This is time-consuming and more than a little bit invconvenient.

I do not know of a good alternative to the WinSCP app, and using sftp or ftp does not work well. (I am guessing that the Windows elements are set up to prevent useful access via those methods; although I could be off-track on that.)

I am not writing to ask about remedies for the Windows app. What I would like to know about is a way to restore DNS functions on Linux once they have been disrupted to this extent.

Brian

Hello. I was a programmer a long time ago; the last few years were mostly with C/C++. I want to take up learning a modern platform for use in begin better at admin tasks with my LAN. I have considered Python, Java, and a few others. Since my coding skills are not current, I am not certain what language can be learned at little or no financial output, for purposes of better managing my LAN along with its networking to the outside world.

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I have a pattern ptrn that matches a bash function definition.

Code: sed -n -E "$ptrn" "$flnm" In addition to the function definition, I can print consecutive lines until the first blank line in encountered (in order to capture the a corresponding documentation string), which I can do with

Code: /${ptrn}/,/^[[:blank:]]*$/p Here is an example bash function definition with documentation strings.

Code: firefly-wht ()  # TST  Some Descriptiion
 {
  ## FN firefly-wht  [first docstring]
  ## DS  Print parameters in white colour  [second docstring]

  local -r rst="$( tput sgr0 )" The difficulty arises when trying to colour the function definition with a blue foreground, and comments with a white foreground. The respective colour escape sequences are stored in "$blu" and "$wht".

Because I cannot do something like the following, what possibilities exist ?

Code: km_ere="[[:blank:]]*(##|;;|!!|//|@c)[[:blank:]]+"
/${ptrn}/,/^[[:blank:]]*$/p ; s%${ptrn}%${blu} %p ; s%${km_ere}%${wht} %p

1 Lost permissions to open external usb.....where work is stored.
2 Can no longer switch to other users, no longer an option to do so
3 Cannot restore as Timeshift will not open!
4 I'm traumatized and wish i'd never done this update.....it's a horror!
5 Yes, I know tricia is approaching EOL....no issue with that.
6 I am looking for a way to fix these issues.....other than getting a whole new system

Porteus Kiosk 5.5 is powered by the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel series to support new hardware and features and includes upgraded userland packages.

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In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to install and use LXD on the Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS using an APT or snap command.

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Redmine is a free and open-source project management software and issue-tracking tool. It is written using the Ruby on Rails framework and can be integrated with various version control systems. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Redmine on a Debian 11 server.

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Redmine is a free and open-source project management software and issue-tracking tool. It is written using the Ruby on Rails framework and can be integrated with various version control systems. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Redmine on a Debian 11 server.

hello,

this happens for me only on slackware-current. I have no problems installing and using grub on slackware15.

I use other distro to set up grub and use slackware-current with elilo as a walkaround.


Code: root@mm:/home/mm# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi/
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: unknown filesystem.
root@mm:/home/mm# grub-install
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: unknown filesystem.

When installing any package from the repository, you can ask the repository to provide a specific version of the application. Here’s how.

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The tutorial is divided into two parts: installing and configuring Suricata and installing and configuring Elastic Stack.

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