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Shell Genie is a command-line tool that can be used to ask in plain English how to perform various tasks, and it gives you the shell command you need.

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The ICS-I370 is a fanless industrial cyber security network appliance powered by the Intel Atom E3900 CPU series. Lanner�s ICS-I370 also includes 1x M.2 B-key for LTE/5G networking, 1x M.2 E-Key for Wi-Fi connectivity and multiple storage options. The Lanner ICS-I370 integrates one of the following low-power processors with 14nm process: x7-E3950 � 4C/4T, 1.6 [�]

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The ICS-I370 is a fanless industrial cyber security network appliance powered by the Intel Atom E3900 CPU series. Lanner’s ICS-I370 also includes 1x M.2 B-key for LTE/5G networking, 1x M.2 E-Key for Wi-Fi connectivity and multiple storage options. The Lanner ICS-I370 integrates one of the following low-power processors with 14nm process: x7-E3950 — 4C/4T, 1.6 […]

The growing threat of Linux malware and ransomware has put businesses on a red alert. Learn more about what these threats are and how you can secure your systems against them.

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Greetings and thank you in advance for any assistance you might offer.

I am trying to build a bootable USB drive that can work either from Legacy CSM or EFI PCs that will have multiple operating systems displayed as selections in it's menu and I'm guessing Grub2 is probably best for that but I'm a total novice at best for Grub2. I think it would be very useful for installing and maintaining systems on many PCs.

I've partially succeeded by installing Grub2 to a test USB drive which will boot in both modes but I'm failing to get a menu for selecting the 2 operating systems on this pendrive. This one has a Hirens Windows PE type system and a Slackware Install system, and I'd like to add Liveslack as well once it works.

Currently if I select UEFI boot from my Boot Order Menu the PE system boots but directly with no options. So far I can't get the Slackware Installer to show up let alone boot. My totally novice experience with Grub2 is that after manually editing grub.cfg an updater must be run to incorporate the changes. Since I can only get into the Windows PE environment on that pendrive I have no clue how to update grub. I've tried messing with Easy BCD but I'm even less adept at Windows work than Grub2.

All of the guides I find online are for Ubuntu and the like employing some repository to apt-get or whatever package management to configure Grub2 on a portable drive.

Naturally I'd rather do this in Slackware. Can any of you Grub devotees help?

I'm running Linux Mint, and have Windows XP running in a Virtualbox instance. I have the option set to bi-directional but it makes no difference. It might not be a problem with Virtualbox though, since I tried dragging and dropping via Teamviewer to my desktop PC with the same results!

Linux Mint 20.3 64bit
Dell Vostro laptop
Intel i7 @ 1.8GHz

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It is the sixth update to SparkyLinux, also known as �Po Tolo,� and it is powered by Debian 11 (Bullseye), which brings with it a stable, secure, and reliable experience.

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It is the sixth update to SparkyLinux, also known as “Po Tolo,” and it is powered by Debian 11 (Bullseye), which brings with it a stable, secure, and reliable experience.

Learn about how open-source security automation can help organizations find vulnerabilities faster for a more robust cybersecurity strategy.

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A long time ago I had Norton Commander for DOS. I consider it to one of the best programs ever made. Now of course we have mc, and for that I am grateful.
I remember that NC allowed the 'Layout' option allowed me to have more than one line for output. I thought mc did that once, but my memory is a little foggy.
Anyway the adjustment for 'console output' has been grayed out seemingly forever. I cannot figure out how to activate that.
Can anyone help me with this?

I have a 4T Toshiba usb drive that gets mounted on boot, with a symlink to /mnt/toshiba in my home directory.

When accessing my computer via ssh (sftp from Midnight Commander) from remote, it would hang and I'd have to dump the terminal. When I ssh from a command line, it would take me to my home directory, and I could cd to sub-directories, but I could not "ls" within my home dir; again it would hang, but I can at least ctrl-C out of it

I have found that there are two directories that will hang like this, my ~ dir, and the /mnt dir, and have decided that the usb drive is the culprit. However, I can't seem to umount the toshiba ext drive, it'll just sit there and do nothing until I ctrl-C out of it. (umount /mnt/toshiba) Any suggestions on how I can un-mount this usb drive? I won't be in a position to have physical access to the computer for several days.

OpenSSH 9.2 is a bug-fix release that fixes three non-critical security issues and introduces several new features.

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OpenSSH 9.2 and 9.2p1: security fixes and other improvements were released this week, giving system administrators and users the latest in secure remote access protocols.

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OpenSSH 9.2 and 9.2p1: security fixes and other improvements were released this week, giving system administrators and users the latest in secure remote access protocols.

I'm a relatively new python programmer, looking for a moderately useful (free) IDE for python in Slackware 15.0. Plan using it to play around with writing some of my own code, and maybe debugging the occasional project obtained from elsewhere.

I've debugged a few python programs over time, mostly just editing files directly in a text editor. That gets messy when a project spans multiple files.

I had Eric4 running in Slackware 14.2, but it no longer runs in 15.0 - dependencies have been removed. (Run from a terminal window,the first error it encounters in "No module named QtCore.) Over at SlackBuilds, you can't get an Eric build past 14.2, and Eric version 4 is getting pretty old. Eric is up to version 7 now, but it needs PyQt6, and Slackware 15.0 only has PyQt5.

Another option I tried was Spyder. The SlackBuild for 15.0 builds and installs, but it won't run. It also is based on PyQt4, not 5. The Spyder version is also old - 2.3.9. The Spyder web page is now up to 5.4.2, and that requires PyQt >=5.15 (which Slackware 15.0 meets).

I've managed to download and install PyCharm 2022.3.1 using SlackBuilds. So far, it seems reasonable, but I'm curious about other options.

So, what IDEs do people prefer for Python, in Slackware? I don't really want Just Another Flavour of Text Editing,but I don't have overly-complex needs.

Does anyone have recent versions of either Eric or Spyder working in Slackware 15.0? Would Spyder 2.3.9 work if I just re-install PyQt4 along side PyQt5? (I still have my 14.2 installation files and patches available.)

Any other IDEs worth looking at?

Opinions, hints, suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance.

Proton 7.0-6 adds improvements and new Windows-compatible game support to Linux, making the gaming experience even better than it was before.

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PyRadio is a cross-platform curses based internet radio player. We tested the latest version of PyRadio using the package available from the Arch User Repository (AUR). This repository is for Arch and Arch-based distros.

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PyRadio is a cross-platform curses based internet radio player. We tested the latest version of PyRadio using the package available from the Arch User Repository (AUR). This repository is for Arch and Arch-based distros.

While content moderation on Mastodon is far from perfect, it may be miles ahead of what’s in second place.

The post Why Content Moderation on Mastodon Isn’t That Bad appeared first on Linux Today.

Hello!

I decided to post this in Linux-General because it is not a specified question about VPN, it is a general one. I would like to ask your opinion about a "good" VPN provider for Linux. I will give briefly my own testimony.

For a year I had a subscription with IPVanish. I was pleased with it because they have zero log policy, their servers are fast and they hide you well: I frequently tested the service for potential IP leaking in sites as IP Leak, Browser Leaks, What Is My IP, SpeedTest, IP Location Map etc. It never leaked.

So, what was the matter? First, IPVanish doesn't support IPv6. No big deal, I disable it in my system. Second, IPVanish doesn't (until now) support OpenVPN 2.6.x. I use Debian Testing and OpenVPN version upgraded several months ago. Upon upgrade, my system was unable to connect to the VPN servers. So I had to downgrade OpenVPN to version 2.5.x and keep it from upgrading for several months, until my subscription ended. As we know, it is not a good thing to artificially keep back a program in a rolling release.

I then tried Mullvad VPN. Seemed OK, with a GUI for Linux as a plus and much privacy in the subscription. But in my IP leaking tests, I realized that I was not hidden from SpeedTest!. In finding Optional Server for the speed test, SpeedTest always saw my real location and not the VPN server I was connected with. With IPVanish, I never had this leak.

Note that I have disabled Geolocation in my Firefox browser.

So, do you have any suggestions for a VPN provider other than these two?

Thank You!