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Unfortunately, the recently updated Xfce roadmap doesn�t give much hope that the desktop environment will soon be ready for Wayland.

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Unfortunately, the recently updated Xfce roadmap doesn’t give much hope that the desktop environment will soon be ready for Wayland.

edit: I am using MX Linux xfce and I am open to installing other packages, I ain't married to any of these packages.

https://imgur.com/a/SAHnCV0

I have installed `vnstat` package and it's quite handy. I have a few questions about it though.
1. What is `rx` & `tx` mean in this package?
`rx` stands for `received`
`tx` stands for `transmission`

Is there a command to check data usage on my system using this? I mean, I want to create a Add an item to my panel which will show me my daily data usage updating it every minute. Basically, I want to to see what the arrow points to **on the panel next to my date** and I want it to update it every minute. I have 1.5GBs of data a day and I usually am not able to use it efficiently or I use too early and spent hours without data. So, I want to try and handle this problem by monitoring my data.

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Note: I want to measure gauge data speed here, not do a speed test on how fast my internet is.

Also, I want to monitor the instantaneous rate of data usage and for that package `bwm-ng` does a great job, but I want to see in the panel and I want it to update every `0.5 s` how can I achieve this?

I would like for a command to either view `red arrow` or the `black arrow` with the right mark depending upon which of them is `instantaneous data speed`

https://imgur.com/a/cItDaEg

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Note to Future self:
`rx` : `received`
`tx` : `transmission`
`lo` : `local loopback`
`wlan0` : `ethernet`

This is a new problem. I was attempting to transfer files from a VM, to my USB stick. In doing so, looks like one of the things was an erronious fstab entry. I bet that's where the actual problem is. The line looks a bit like this, from memory:

Code: vbox /mnt/vbox vboxsf 0 0 Spaces may be off, but you get the gist. Now it only boots into maintenence mode, and still won't let me actually type commands. With system rescue disk Linux, perhaps on a USB, as this has no dvd drive built in, though I have some at home, can this be easily fixed? What if I remove the offending line? Do you think it will boot normally? Turning it off the hard way doesn't seem to be very good for it, but I bet the whole system isn't gone yet. I don't think it's an ssd.

I was oddly enough, just about to ask about my origional problem and that was my last try, as it wasn't mounting the disk.

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No signs of Anaconda Installer behavior in the screenshots below might be noticed in the Fedora 39 development branch up until 09/16/23. Actually, I've followed link suggested in final rows of article https://www.debugpoint.com/fedora-39-features/ . In particular , the iso image Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20230916.n.0.iso has been used for virt-manager

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No signs of Anaconda Installer behavior in the screenshots below might be noticed in the Fedora 39 development branch up until 09/16/23. Actually, I've followed link suggested in final rows of article https://www.debugpoint.com/fedora-39-features/ . In particular , the iso image Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20230916.n.0.iso has been used for virt-manager

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Earlier this month, Armbian OS 23.08 (codename Colobus) was announced with support for various new devices including the Khadas VIM1S, VIM4, TI AM26, and Lichee Pi 4A. Similarly, DietPi announced support for the Orange Pi 5 Plus and enhancements for other boards. Armbian: Armbian is an open-source OS based on Linux designed specifically for ARM-based [�]

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Earlier this month, Armbian OS 23.08 (codename Colobus) was announced with support for various new devices including the Khadas VIM1S, VIM4, TI AM26, and Lichee Pi 4A. Similarly, DietPi announced support for the Orange Pi 5 Plus and enhancements for other boards. Armbian: Armbian is an open-source OS based on Linux designed specifically for ARM-based […]

I'm quite familiar with the product and have used it for quite a while and know the basics of what it does and how it does it. I really like it function wise as it seems to really block a lot of data broker type issues. My question is that on the chocolatey website it does scanning of new versions and Librewolf always has 5 or less issues in their safety scan. A link about the details takes you to totalvirus and the technical discussions there are simply above me. The whole idea of open-source is great but unless your an advanced code reader its difficult to tell if these are non issues or something to avoid? Who has the time/interest to take a look? Thanks

Version:6.6-rc2 (mainline) Released:2023-09-17 Source:linux-6.6-rc2.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

Learn how to install MySQL 8.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS using Ubuntu’s default APT or by importing the MySQL 8.0 Community for the latest version.

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Linux offers potent commands like cp, tar, and rsync to facilitate manual backups. These commands are versatile, allowing users to specify exactly what to back up... Cron jobs make it possible to schedule backups at regular intervals, automating the backup process and reducing the possibility of human error.

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Linux offers potent commands like cp, tar, and rsync to facilitate manual backups. These commands are versatile, allowing users to specify exactly what to back up... Cron jobs make it possible to schedule backups at regular intervals, automating the backup process and reducing the possibility of human error.

Hello...

I recently installed Slackware 15 on a converted Chromebox with updated firmware to coreboot (UEFI).

It's been 14 years since I looked at Slackware and it is at once timely yet timeless--a classic. I installed and found the installation the same after all these years!

Sadly, there are two big issues that I do not have an immediate answer for.

First, The desktop will freeze. I can move the mouse and the caps lock works but nothing on the desktop will work or function correctly. I have to do a hard reset. And even the hard reset would reboot the machine but fail to start X. It complained about not being able to find the server and to check server logs.

Secondly, I installed a Memory Usage widget on the desktop and the next time it froze, I noticed that memory usage consumed the whole 128GB of my hard drive! Needless to say, I had to reset again.

The reset usually fixes this but is there something I can do to fix this? Sounds like a memory leak of some sort to me.

Other distributions--notably, Arch and Debian--do not have these issues on the same machine.

Thanks for your help.

I am running Slackware 15+ current, all was working perfectly in this respect, but then logged in remotely and issued:
Quote: sudo shutdown -h now once shutdown I unplugged everything plugged into new power backup. Booted up asked for password for the sudo user displayed the KDE icon on centre of screen, screen went black displayed mouse icon on screen and that's where it stayed. If I change to run level 3 reboot (logged in remotely to achive this). When it reboots and enter same username and password and type startx, it start's up perfectly. I switch back to run level 4 it goes back to sitting at the black screen with mouse icon on screen after password is typed in. Not sure why it would work perfectly from command line and not at all when using run level 4. Any ideas on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

I've been installing Linux on PCs since 2007, but this is the first time I've had so much hassle just getting one particular laptop to even recognise the USB is present when I try to boot it up for the first time, prior to installation.

Although, this is the first time I've tried to install a 64-bit Linux onto a 64-bit laptop. I don't know whether that's a relevant factor.

The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L450. It has 2GB RAM. The laptop I use presently is a 32-bit HP with 1GB RAM, running Mint 18.1, so it's time for an upgrade. I originally tried Mint 21.2 MATE, and the new laptop recognised the stick and booted as normal. However, when trying it out I loaded Firefox and one webpage and it was already using 1.9GB of the 2GB, so I thought I'd better try a lighter version than MATE.

I downloaded the ISO for Mint 21.2 XFCE instead, checked the MD5sum and all that, but the Toshiba refused to recognise the USB stick on booting. I inserted it before switching on the laptop, selected Setup, but the USB was not present in the boot order. I tried multiple times. I do not have any other 64-bit machines on which to try it.

I then downloaded the ISO for Mint LMDE. This was recognised on bootup but I gave up this distro before installing as it's so radically different from what I'm used to and it kept hanging.

I then downloaded XUbuntu 22.04 ISO, unpacked it to the stick using DD in a terminal (I had been using the Mint "USB image writer" before that), but the Toshiba still doesn't want to recognise it. So I've had two successes (with booting, but I didn't like the distros) and two failures. The failures are the lightweight distros I would probably get on with. Except the USB stick isn't being recognised as bootable.

I notice with a GParted analysis of the stick, the Boot flag is not present on sdb1 but on sdb2. Should it be? Are there any other setup Boot options I should be trying?

This is the first time I've even had this much trouble getting a distro to live boot for the first time. Thank you for any assistance you can give.

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ColorSync Utility is a tool that lets you change a device�s colour profile. When you install devices, such as cameras, displays or printers, a colour profile containing the colour capabilities and limits for each device is created.

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ColorSync Utility is a tool that lets you change a device’s colour profile. When you install devices, such as cameras, displays or printers, a colour profile containing the colour capabilities and limits for each device is created.

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Django is a free and open-source Python Web Framework used to develop dynamic websites and applications. This guide will show you how to install the Django web framework on a Debian 12 server.

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