linux

Hi all, I'm currently looking to consolidate a few of my Raspberry Pi's into one server specifically I'm looking to run a few docker containers such as a personal VPN, Pi-Hole and torrent box with the possibility of home automation in the future. I've been looking at HP & Lenovo USFF boxes...

Hi, Long time lurker, looking for some advise and suport. I'm going round and round looking for inspiration and direction, but coming up short. Some background: I've got a home full of old PC parts, and I've found myself moving away from PC gaming due to time commitments & work over the past...

So, which of these 2 schedulers do you prefer and why? Does different hardware play better with one or the other? Trying to figure out which one to go for where the focus of the machine is playing games. In case hardware does matter my platform is b550 with a x5800 and 32gigs 3200mhz CL16...

I have an HP Microserver which I'd like to schedule to go into sleep or hibernation at the same time each day, then automatically wake at the same time the following day. I've tried this command to check basic sleep/wake functionality, but it doesn't wake the machine as intended: sudo rtcwake -m...

Hi, does anyone know if any of the following 3 audio gaming chairs would work with Linux please? X Rocker Esport Pro Stereo Audio Gaming Chair with Subwoofer X Rocker Esports Pro 2.1 Audio Gaming Chair BraZen Stag Gaming Chair Many thanks in advance for your help

Gigabyte AB350-GAMING 3 (Socket AM4/B350/DDR4/S-ATA 600/ATX) AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Desktop CPU - AM4 ASUS GeForce DUAL-GTX1060-O6G 6 GB Graphics Card Corsair CMK16GX4M2A2400C16 Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 2400 MHz C16 XMP 2.0 Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB 2.5 inch Solid State Drive Western Digital...

Hi There, I'm trying to wipe an 2.5" SSD I currently have in my laptop with Ubuntu installed, for a fresh Windows 10 install into a desktop build I'm currently working on. This is my first time trying this in Linux and I'm not sure how to go about doing it safely. Any tips, hugely appreciated...

Anyone using a dedicated USB audio interface with Linux able to tell me which interface they're using and which driver package they use? I'm doing less and less gaming and more and more development work at home nowadays, so I've been thinking of making the switch from Windows to Ubuntu...

Looking in the CPU channel I'm reading a lot of people having issues with Ryzen 5000 series CPU stability, temperature, constant BIOS updates etc I'm looking for a recommendation for a Mini ITX board to go with a 5900x. My selection criteria are: Stability Support for two M.2 slots (PCIe 4...

Indulge my curiosity. If you boot a Linux install USB key could you Telnet / SSH / X into it and conduct the install from there?

Hey! I have a Raspberry Pi with Debian on it and just found out how to make custom login banners so I thought I would share here. If you have customised your own banners please share along with the code!

I've not bothered with Linux for many years, but I remember X Windows being a thing back then, with the application being based on one computer and the UI being separate, possibly on another computer. Is that still the case? For all apps? Or is the Linux GUI strictly local apps only now, with...

I've run some basic testing on the 3 machines that are going to be linked together via 10Gbe and found some slightly strange performance issues. This is the kit that is linked together: Switch - Juniper EX3300 with juniper SR transceivers no vlans or L3 features enabled 1500 MTU PC1 - Windows...

My server with fedora 30 installed keeps booting to emergency mode with the control + D option to carry on to default target. Pressing control D allows it to carry on and boot ok without an issue. I looked at the journal -xb log and this is the result for all of all fails. [kei@KEI-NAS ~]$...

So a few days ago i thought i would give linux another try. First gave Mint a go but that ended up being so much hassle for 3 hours into the night due to not wanting to install the boot loader(some amd64 error) and then going with Debian which installed nicely and without issues but taking a...

Happy Thursday all. I would like to request advice with regards to moving data between ZFS pools on different machines. I currently have a 2-bay server with a ZFS Mirror looking after my data. I have acquired a second server with 4 bays, and an additional 2 hard disks of the same size of...

I have need for my own services and firewall instead of that crud they've included. But I can't seem to get it working properly. Does anyone know how to setup the interface on Linux? I'm running Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy and my interface setup is like this: iface eth1 inet dhcp pre-up...

Hi! I need some help. I am having problems installing Linux Subsystem on Windows 10. Recently I freshly installed Windows 10 on my machine. I updated Windows fully so I am up-to-date. I enabled developer mode and clicked the option to install Bash. When I restart my computer it goes up % then...

Hey all, I'm slowly migrating my home network to Linux and am currently trying to set up a file server. For my setup I'm using Ubuntu Server 16.04 with a ZFS RAIDZ pool and Samba (although I'm quite interested in NFS too). So far I've had intermittent success with the correct permissions...

Hi all, I have had a run in with some bad NVR units bought on Amazon, FLOUREON to be presice, which both died shortly (1yr) after setting it up. I was just wondering if you could shed some light on a way of setting up either a Linux based system or Windows 7 PC for use with a DVR H.264 set of...