Linux

Hello hello! I'm planning to upgrade my RP4 setup to a mini pc for plex server. i'll keep using some sort of linux OS to keep the setup similar to the current one. I want something with a nvme and a 2.5 hdd drives and 2.5gbe eth. i'm the only one using it so it's noe likely to be transcoding...

Hi, im looking for something similar to midnightbsd, haiku that is something new and can be used for gaming. so far i only found midnightbsd, vamprie os, elive, haiku and lonero os. are there any others?

Hello! Recently, I acquired an old HP Z800 Workstation from a friend. I plan on using it as an Unraid Server, so I bought two Xeon X5670 CPUs and installed them, but now they are not correctly recognized by Unraid itself or a different Linux Distro I tried (EndeavourOS). My BIOS is on the...

So I have a Penguin Relion 1900 1U rack mounted server running CentOS 7 that recently had a hard disk failure. It had 4 hard drives configured in RAID 6. To replace the failed HDD, I powered off the machine, swapped the failed one with a new drive of the same size (4TB) and powered on the...

Hello, I am looking for a way to remotely connect to my Linux laptop even when it is not on. I would like a safe and secure connection interface that requires a password and has some high encryption standards. Thank you for your answers!

I had the OS SSD fail, and then a motherboard fail, so now I've got an all new set up but I need to get my archival RAID1 set back up. One of the 2 drives appears to have failed (it's showing only 4gb partition in Gnome disk utility), and I want to rescue what I can from the remaining drive...

Hi all, I am trying to install a linux OS (with kernel 4.12) via USB on my Asus Tuf Dash F15 (FX517ZM). Basically when I select to boot from that pendrive I just get a black screen with a dash. This is very strange, I have never seen it before. I have tried all possible UEFI setting options...

Recently I got a 144 Hz monitor. It is just as smooth as I would have liked and looks great. Unfortunately, with a second monitor (my old 75 Hz one) connected ganes V-sync to it even when running on my 144 hz one, causing screen tearing in every game I tried. I read a forum on Reddit about like...

How Disposable email server works when compared to normal email server ? What is the algorithm ? How does disposable email server creates different email aliases each time ? How do I develop my own Disposable email server ?

I recently built a new computer with the following specs: MSI Pro B550M-VC WiFi AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) AMD R9 390X (From my old computer) Corsair RM750x I've tried to install multiple Linux distros, as I don't have a copy of...

I'm running a Linux Distro (Pop OS 22.04) and I'm currently using an Asrock AB350 Pro4 Motherboard (on BIOS version P3.0) with a Ryzen 5 1600 CPU. I'm about to install a Ryzen 5 3600 CPU and an RX 6600 GPU. The website wants me to download this "AMD all in 1 with VGA driver...

I recently bought an asus prime b660m-a wifi d4 and an i5 12600kf. Before that, I had an msi h110 pro d and an i5 6600k. My gpu(gtx 1070) worked perfectly before the swap, but on the new mb it would not be detected but display would work(i use linux, and it would boot into command line mode...

Hi everyone, First of all, please forgive me if this is the wrong section to post this in. I'm looking to make my home network more secure and I'd like to buy a fairly cheap server on which I could do virtualization, host my own website, host my home network files (FTP?) and maybe even my very...

This is a contender for the weirdest thing that ever happened to one of my computers. --- Summary: Power went out for a bit, then I couldn't access some websites and services on both my OSes (everything works fine on other devices in the same network), tried resetting DNS, rebooting PC and...

[Moderator note: Moving post from Systems to Storage. More applicable. ] I resized my primary Windows 11 partition and created a small one to test a Linux distro but now I would like to remove it and if possible merge it back with the primary Windows 11 partition. 390GB (windows 11) 84.35GB...

I want to install VM Ware on my Seagate Data drive shown below. I want to stand this virtual environment up to support Linux so that I can surf the web to reduce be being victimized by the badguys. In addition, I also want to get my feet wet with Linux. Iam a GUI user and not the best...

I'm running into an issue while trying to install Solaris 11.4. I have created a USB installer drive by downloading the 11.4.0 GA USB Text Installer file. I have tried flashing the .usb file to the drive using both Rufus and Etcher. Both methods created bootable drives, but neither have led to a...

From what I know, Tails OS is a good system. Unfortunately, the operating system does not directly boot on hard drives or SSDs- you need a USB. But I wonder if there's any secure Linux distro that directly boots from HDD/SDD drives. I know one OS called Qube OS. Anything other than that, I don't...

When I try to start my bootable USB drive it just shows this code. BusyBox v1.30.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.30.1-4ubuntu6.3) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. (initramfs) Begin: Running /scripts/casper-premount ... done. done. mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on...

[Moderator edit: Moving post from Systems to Open Source. More applicable.] This is a computer I got from an estate sale a few months ago. It's an old Acer Aspire, I think it's from 2014. Motherboard is factory, processor is Intel Pentium J2900 with integrated graphics. Hard drive is 1TB...

Can i use Rufus to burn the .iso file of Linux Mint to a USB drive, then connect the USB drive to a computer, load the system, open the Linux installation (the disc icon on the desktop), and install the full version of Linux Mint on the computer? Can I do this using Rufus, or do I must use...

In four months back i build pc Last few day my system was freeze or random color screen or display turn off something even bios mode also I check ram using windows memory diagnosing tool but no error My system spec Mobo: asrock steel legend b450m Ram: team valcunz 8x2 3200mhz SMPS ...

I am building a mid-range system to play some games. However, the system isn't booting into Windows 10 or 11 or Ubuntu even after multiple attempts of re-installing and troubleshooting. System Specs (All parts are brand new): CPU: Intel i3-10100f GPU: MSI RX 6600 RAM: XPG Z1 DDR4 16 GB (2x8...

Can someone tell me what are some good anti-virus programs for Linux Mint? According to some articles i have read, i don't need anti-virus programs for Linux. However, i don't think this is the case. If my computer gets viruses, and there is no scanning program to show me a notification there...

Ive always been a Windows user and would be considered a noob in terms of what I know of Linux. I sell fulltime online across a couple different marketplaces and Ive been debating on experimenting with a Linux Distro just to play around with. For futuristic purposes, Id like some opinions and...

I'm having lots of trouble burning some MP4's to a Bluray for use in a Bluray player. Every software I use seems to just burn the files to the disc without formatting them OR just fails to burn the files at all. Could anyone with experience in creating bluray player ready blurays discs tell me...

I've a system with the bellow mentioned components. CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 Mobo: Asrock B450M Pro4-F R2.0 RAM: PNY XLR8 8GBx2 HDD: WD blue 1TB SSD: Lexar 256 GB PSU: Corsair CV 450W OR Thermaltake Litepower 450W GPU: Amd Radeon RX 550 4GB OR Nvidia GTX 960 2GB I bought the system in February 2021...

Hi. So, if i install Linux Mint on a USB flash drive, connect the USB flash drive to my Windows 10 laptop, start surfing dangerous websites and Linux Mint gets infected with a virus, could Linux pass the virus to Windows through the USB port? If yes, what component will get infected, the BIOS or...

Guys I have a T430 with 8GB RAM and i5-3320M 2.6Ghz cpu. Battery’s dead and there’s a newer BIOS version but I can’t update it without battery. It was very slow and stuck every time I run a heavy software like visual studio. It is having windows 10 pro and I recently noticed that it limits the...

I've installed a very large sized package through "sudo apt-get install ...... " on my primary computer but I need to install those packages on my other computers too. I don't want to re-download the files as they're extremely large. Also, It's irritating to do "sudo apt-get update " in every...

A couple of years ago, Linus Torvalds starting grilling NVIDIA about the chips screwing up Android phones. He said, "NVIDIA, **** you!" and stuck out his middle finger. This made me conclude that NVIDIA just sucks for Linux and other Unix-based products. But as for Windows, NVIDIA's still...

Anyone know any good x86 SBC alternatives to the RPI? I'm mainly gonna use it for tinkering and testing some of my own software with Linux but don't wanna have to deal with ARM, as that means I will have to recompile some of my code. I would highly prefer if it has a GPIO pin header with...

I'm looking into a gaming pc build with 5600X & 6600XT, but I'm not sure which motherboard would be best for GPU passthrough to a VM under linux. I have a spare old card I'll use for the main OS. I heard you want to look into IOMMU groups and some motherboards say they support it, but don't...

Recently, I updated my Kali Linux to the latest version along with the microcodes. Ever since then, the Wifi seems to be dropping and requesting a DHCP request in the time interval. Also, the speed seems to be throttled due to the dropping. However, I checked the adaptor by booting into Windows...

Hi! I have an Asus G551JM laptop. I accidentally turned off USB BOOT SUPPORT in the BIOS. My Integrated Keyboard does not work. I only have a USB on my laptop and I can't navigate in the bios since I turned off this menu. I managed to install a Linux Mint 20.2 (UMA) boot and it works perfectly...

I could really use some help with this. It's been driving me crazy, not to mention interfering with my activities, for quite some time. I'm not even sure where to post this, as I'm not sure just where the root cause is. There are two systems here. Both are similarly set up and have Gentoo Linux...

Does Kali Linux support 2 x 4GB RAM sticks of different frequencies, and also other OS like Android ? Like Windows runs on different frequency. Like 1st - 4gb 1333HZ Frequency 2nd - 4gb 1600HZ Frequency

Actually, I want to test some Windows software, they could be malicious. Currently, I'm using MX Linux. I tried virtualization with every software out there, but it makes my system lag. My system is not that superior. So, should I go with a dual boot then?

Hi, I'm using dual boot windows and Linux recently I have installed kali Linux but while using kali I'm get horizontal black bars screen and system crashing (like mouse and keyboard light getting off). sometime this issue gets while login. i tried some boot parameter method but not working. i...

Hello All! Today I purchased a Crucial BX500 1TB SSD and threw it in my older laptop to use for practice. I was learning how to use linux terminal to partition and format and manipulate drives and storage devices. Essentially I was trying to set up a rather complicated dual booting scenario...