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Detailed instructions on how to install and use Photoshop on Linux (Ubuntu) along with free alternatives for Photoshop that work natively on Linux.

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Detailed instructions on how to install and use Photoshop on Linux (Ubuntu) along with free alternatives for Photoshop that work natively on Linux.

Hi Guys,

I am currently working on a project, where I need to move the c-source code from HP-UX to Linux. I came across two wired issues, one is on the oracle side, and we were able to resolve by applying a patch (Unique Patch ID: 24128901) for that. Next one is on the socket side where I am getting and issue on socket (SockWrite: error on socket write, errno=104, Connection reset by peer). This code compile and runs good in HP-UX but compiles fine in Linux but fails at runtime in Linux. Please let me know if this is due to porting from HP-UX to Linux and how I can fix this issue in Linux.

Thanks
Ravi K

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Today, I�m thrilled to announce that Mozilla Foundation is appointing four new members to its Board of Directors. Over the years, I�ve written about our efforts to expand the Board, most recently in March 2023. Each time, I emphasize that by joining Mozilla�s Board, leaders commit to joining a movement for internet health that spans [�]

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Today, I’m thrilled to announce that Mozilla Foundation is appointing four new members to its Board of Directors. Over the years, I’ve written about our efforts to expand the Board, most recently in March 2023. Each time, I emphasize that by joining Mozilla’s Board, leaders commit to joining a movement for internet health that spans […]

I am running Mint 18.2, Cinnamon 3.4.3, and all I want to do is copy/paste from a searchable pdf. I have looked in LibreOffice writer, and xreader, and GIMP, but I don't see any way to do this....

Seems like this should be easy, but I'm not seeing it.....

Hi, I'm TronNerd82. I've been putting off joining this site for a while, mainly because I haven't had any issues of my own that were urgent enough to post about and hadn't already been posted on the Net before. But I finally decided I would join the site so I can ask questions and impart some of my wisdom.

Cheers,
-TronNerd82

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Today, the Zorin OS team announced the general availability for public testing of the beta version of the upcoming Zorin OS 17 release, which promises new and exciting features.

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Today, the Zorin OS team announced the general availability for public testing of the beta version of the upcoming Zorin OS 17 release, which promises new and exciting features.

Hello

Is the Raspberry PI 5 much faster than RPI4 ?

Quote: More than twice as fast and infinitely smoother
Raspberry Pi 5 features the Broadcom BCM2712 quad-core Arm Cortex A76 processor @ 2.4GHz, making it up to three times faster than the previous generation. With RAM variants up to 8GB, this is the fastest, smoothest Raspberry Pi experience yet. Do you need heat sink for RPI5? My rpi4b 4gb for desktop use is without.

Regards,
OpenBSD

I'm trying to send an email from cwauser@members.cwa4502.org to cwa4502admin@cwa4502.org. The cwa4502admin user is a mailbox on Exchange. The members.cwa4502.org host is a standalone computer running sendmail. When I send that message it goes into the dead.letter mailbox. The message headers are:
Code: From cwauser Mon Dec  4 14:17:55 2023
Return-Path: <cwauser>
Received: (from cwauser@localhost)
        by members.cwa4502.local (8.17.2/8.17.2/Submit) id 3B4JHtdM022918
        for cwa4502admin@cwa4502.org; Mon, 4 Dec 2023 14:17:55 -0500
From: CWA membership <cwauser>
Message-Id: <202312041917.3B4JHtdM022918@members.cwa4502.local>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:17:54 -0500
Organization: CWA Local 4502 members
To: cwa4502admin@cwa4502.org
Subject: test 2 from cwauser@members to cwa4502admin
User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 6/20/10
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Status: R And in maillog:
Code: Dec  4 14:17:55 members sendmail[22918]: 3B4JHtdM022918: from=cwauser, size=551, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<202312041917.3B4JHtdM022918@members.cwa4502.local>, relay=cwauser@localhost
Dec  4 14:17:55 members sendmail[22918]: STARTTLS=client, relay=[127.0.0.1], version=TLSv1.3, verify=FAIL, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, bits=256/256
Dec  4 14:17:55 members sm-mta[22919]: STARTTLS=server, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1], version=TLSv1.3, verify=NO, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, bits=256/256
Dec  4 14:17:55 members sm-mta[22919]: 3B4JHt0s022919: <cwa4502admin@cwa4502.org>... User unknown
Dec  4 14:17:55 members sendmail[22918]: 3B4JHtdM022918: to=cwa4502admin@cwa4502.org, ctladdr=cwauser (1000/1000), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30551, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=5.1.1, reply=550 5.1.1 <cwa4502admin@cwa4502.org>... User unknown, stat=User unknown
Dec  4 14:17:55 members sm-mta[22919]: 3B4JHt0s022919: from=<cwauser@members.cwa4502.local>, size=551, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTPS, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] In sendmail.mc I have:
Code: MASQUERADE_AS(`cwa4502.org')
FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')
FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain') The A and MX records for cwa4502.org are:
Code: $ host cwa4502.org
cwa4502.org has address 104.21.48.4
cwa4502.org has address 172.67.175.38
cwa4502.org mail is handled by 0 cwa4502-org.mail.protection.outlook.com. and the A record for members.cwa4502.org is (no MX record):
Code: $ host members.cwa4502.org
members.cwa4502.org has address 74.218.88.254 Now, cwa4502admin is NOT a local user. I can send this same message to my email at novatec-inc.com. Furthermore, I have exactly this same setup on another domain and it works fine. So, why does Sendmail think this is a local user and how do I get it to send the the cwa4502.org Exchange mailbox?

I have been unable to get LXDE working since I got my 'new' computer and installed Slackware 15. After several attempts to get it working using sbopkg. today I installed all the files for LXDE from Ponce's web site but am unable to get it to run as user. It seems to work fine if I log in as root however. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Dan

P.S. As user all I get is a black screen

I am having a connection problem under a specific distro and have published a thread in its forum section.

It so happens that I am not able to identify what kind of variables, factors, parameter may cause the problem. The wonderful people at the distro section are as usually giving me valuable assistance.

Since I imagine you at Networking might provide valuable references and I believe that the title of that thread - directed at the distro - might not catch your attention I am checking first in order to not break any rules about duplication of threads.

I need some advice or hints to solve a problem on a Debian system.

On a relatively freshly installed Linux (Debian 12.2);
when I run in the terminal one of these commands:

# aptitude search some-package
# aptitude -s install some-package
# aptitude install some-package

I get this message:

Warning: Invalid locale (please review locale settings, this might lead to problems later):
locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid

I assume I should do something about it.

I did some research but did not find any clear answer.

For instance I installed locales-all, as suggested in some post I saw on SOF, but it didn't change anything.

What is the best way to handle this issue ?


As a matter of facts, down the road as a result of running this command:

# aptitude install postgresql

I see the following (which seems to be related to the issue above):

.......
Fetched 41.6 MB in 7s (6343 kB/s)...

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Preconfiguring packages ...
.......

Some more information that could be related to my issue.

This is what happens when I run the locale command:

# locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE=UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
#

These are the contents of /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment

# cat /etc/default/locale
# File generated by update-locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
# cat /etc/environment
#

/etc/environment is empty.


One more thing I should say is that in order to use Japanese input.
I installed these packages: ibus, ibus-mozc. I had some hard time to make it work and it is possible that I messed up some locale settings a that point.

Any relevant tip by someone used to these problems will be much appreciated.

Hi, I work on software that formats and uses a disk on linux. When discovering the disks, we look for a non formatted disk with fdisk -l.

Ex:
If /dev/sda is formatted and /dev/sdb is not formatted, we use sdb.

For a server that's not on the cloud i have a question:

If we discover a scsi disk and a lun symlink to /dev/sdb, should we use that lun or the disk ?

I have noticed that many disks can be mapped to the same lun. This poses a problem.

I have anelderly Samsung NP350C laptop. It seemed it was their first generation with uefi because it was a pig. I formatted with fdisk, set the Bios to legacy, and used it as a pre-uefi pc. Fine with Slackware.

I do have 25G meant for another OS. I failed to install linux Mint on it. Now I'm trying with the Debian-12.2 netinst-iso. That's not seen as a bootable usb device:(.

I have grub on this, and can hack something together, but it just won't go near all that mess of directories that efi is. Here is the disk layout Code: bash-5.1$ lsblk
NAME  MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda      8:0    0 223.6G  0 disk
├─sda1  8:1    0  500M  0 part /boot
├─sda2  8:2    0    5G  0 part [SWAP]
├─sda3  8:3    0    40G  0 part /
├─sda4  8:4    0    1K  0 part
├─sda5  8:5    0    50G  0 part /home
├─sda6  8:6    0    25G  0 part
└─sda7  8:7    0 103.1G  0 part /mnt/virtual sda6 had Mint-19.? on it, but I couldn't update it to Mint-20. Alternatively, if any other distro has package management and a half decent repo, I'll try it. It has to handle a 100% legacy system, though. sda7 is a sort of overflow space for whatever weird thing is going on an any point in time.

Building has a annual power shutdown for maintenance for 2 days.

As such, prior to it, I have shut down the CentOS 6 server.

After the power is back on (2 days later), when I boot back up, I encountered the following image :

[![Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill int][1]][1]


[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/x7EPk.jpg

I've Googled search around, and the most common answer is to disable SELinux during the boot.
I have tried that - and it didnt helped (which made sense since I didn't touched SELinux).

Also, at the GRUB page, I tried booting into other kernel, 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 kernel - however, it encountered the same kernel panic.

I'm unsure if its due to hardware issues like disk failing, RAMs etc, or other issues

What I’ve also done :
- I removed rghb and quiet parameters when booting the kernel, and there are more logs, specifically saying that lv_root and lv_swap could not be found.

- Tried using rescue USB thumbdrive. However after selecting “Rescued installed system”, it has problem locating the system partition. Even explicitly stating the disk that contains the system, it has error.

- Tried using live DVD as thumbdrive instead. In the live environment, mounting /dev/sda gives me error stating wrong file system : isw_raid_member. I believe it’s because my OS disk is configured as raid1(mirror) using mdadm. Googling around and I discovered “dmraid -ay”, which seems to sync /dev/sda and /dev/sdb as a volume. However, when I tried to mount the volume, it keeps saying that it is already mounted or the mount folder is busy.


At this point, I’m not sure what to do. My main priority is to retrieve the files inside. Of course, if the system can be booted back up, that’ll the most ideal

Here is what happens when I want to use postgres on debian:

~$ psql
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
psql: error: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL: role "dolphin" does not exist
~$ psql

I need to fix this problem, so comes my question :

What is the way to check that my locale settings are supported and installed on my debian system ?

My computer is an old Dell Inspiron 3646 Small, with Intel Pentium 2.41GHz ~ Silvermont 21nm, Celeron J1800 Dual-Core, running Win8.1 with 8GB RAM, and I can no longer update some applications because MS ceased support for 8.1, so I would like to install a Linux OS. I had Debian, then Ubuntu on an even-older machine that died more than a decade ago, and my knowledge of Linux is antique, so I would appreciate a recommendation.

Once upon a time, serious audio users like musicians and audio engineers had real trouble with Linux. With the arrival of PipeWire 1.0, that's no longer the case.