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Getting Tuxedo laptop fans to work on BSD
This question pertains to Tuxedo laptops (and possibly Clevo, Uniwill, or Tongfang laptops, which Tuxedo systems appear to be based on). Tuxedo provides official support for Windows and Linux, but I'm ...
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Bazzite WSL Distro For UE 5.4 Clang Cross-Compile Testing
So basically I would like to create a WSL Bazzite distribution to test the Unreal Engine Cross-Compilation tools for testing. I found this container image hoping I would be able to export as a tar ...
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port ubuntu kernel to rhel
I need to port ubuntu kernel with HWE to RHEL 9.
I have experience in fedora like systems but not in debian like systems.
I have Downloaded the kernel source using apt source but don't know what to do ...
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How do Linux kernel developers find bugs and other places for improvement in the Linux kernel?
This may or may not be off-topic. If it is, leave a comment and I'll take it down.
I am trying to become a kernel developer myself, and reading some of the mailing lists, I can only help but wonder ...
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Programmatically query last DHCP lease time
I have a buildroot embedded Linux where I change the ethernet port settings (i.e. disabled, static or DHCP) from a C++ program. When switching to DHCP, it would be nice to determine when (i.e. ...
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Can I develop Windows, macOS, and Linux software or a game on one Linux distribution? [closed]
I'm new in here and I still don't have a lot of experience and knowledge about Linux and software development.
I was thinking to start learning software and game development and I am currently ...
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Broken eslint for Linux command `eslint`
Once upon a time, I wanted to write an app. I learned about common practices, it lead me to more and more discoveries. Out of the blue, I found about lint, which means beauty code patterns. In my app, ...
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Is there any difference between #include <linux/ioctl.h> and #include <sys/ioctl.h>?
I have to write a device driver code for temperature sensor using IOCTL, when I was going through a lot of sample codes, I found while surfing the net, I came across this difference in header file, I ...
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Performant distro for development & personal use [closed]
Background
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.
Laptop specs:
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00 GHz × 4
Graphics Intel® HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2)
8 GB of RAM
OS type: 64-bit
Windowing System: X11
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How to read and consume the input of /dev/input/
I just started working with Ubuntu/Linux so my knowledge is limited.
My idea was to use a barcode scanner in my c++ program as an input device.
This works perfect when it comes to reading. I just open ...
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tools to start many background processes and close cleanly on sigint
I have an ad-hoc case where I as a user want to start a handful of service processes and also be able to interrupt them all together for clean and easy start-stops. The behavior of "docker-...
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Qt closes immediatly when importing uia model
I have installed Qt 5.15.1 recently (full framework). I could not import Qt 3D presentation to a Qt design studio or Qt Creator (Qt Quick 2) projects. When importing via library->Assets->Add New ...
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Pipes and graphics
When developing a program (in C or Python, say), I often write debug messages to see whether my program behaves as intended. On Linux, such text messages can be handled in varied and flexible ways ...
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Debian package development process - sid to testing and back porting
I've been monitoring the process of python-libusb1 in Debian. Python-usb1 is required for the upgraded version of python-trezor to make it to testing. The author uploaded a new binary on May 12 and I ...
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Where do I get "Development Tools" for CentOS 7 when trying to install via yum?
I'm running CentOS 7. I want to install gcc (for the purposes of building Python 3 with the new openssl package I installed). I was reading here -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19816275/no-...
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What set of system-wide configuration settings can conflict when installing different applications on a unix-based OS?
Reading this report on containerization the authors mention that:
A problem caused by Unix’s shared global filesystem is
the lack of configuration isolation. Multiple applications can
have ...
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How to flash code from external SD card to internal memory and boot the image? [closed]
With the ELB-REV4 board, which has both internal memory and an SD card slot, once my application works fine, I need to boot using an image on the external SD card image. I want to flash the complete ...
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How to install Devuan/Debian testing/unstable without starting from a stable release?
It is possible to install Devuan/Debian stable and then editing /etc/apt/sources.list upgrade to a testing/unstable branch (ref).
However on my laptop I have an AMD Ryzen 7 2700U processor, which ...
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How can I use TLS on a local apache development server (on localhost) [duplicate]
I am trying to set up a development environment that mirrors my live server, but behind the firewall.
Until fairly recently my shared hosting site didn't offer TLS/SSL so it wasn't an issue/option, ...
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How to install man pages for certain libc functions?
In the past, from time to time, while developing Linux software, I have noticed that some man pages which deal with developer documentation are missing on my systems.
This happens mainly on Debian ...
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Developing Mozilla Firefox for Linux on Windows
I would like to make some contribution to Mozilla Firefox (with the little C++ I know). Can I build, run and debug Firefox for Linux using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) ? If yes, should I install ...
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Installing dev libraries locally
I need to install libpng-dev locally on a system where I do not have sudo access This is required to compile a C application. What is the best way to proceed with this? Can this be installed from ...
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Red Hat 6.9 Desktop yum groupinstall Developer Tools not found? [closed]
I searched everywhere on the web for a few days, and I am still stuck...
I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.9 in a virtual machine. I am using an older version because I am experimenting ...
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What is the preferred way to unhog a hogged GPIO pin?
So I'm doing development on an ARM embedded system which is using the device trees. We're going to integrate a small PCB with a processor and support components onto a bigger PCB, which will be the ...
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Kiosk Gui, but not limited to WebBrowsing
My need is simple: Make a Raspberry PI 3 thin client. For that, I need the following items to be achieved:
A Kiosk mode software, that would not allow the user to change configurations
A Kiosk mode ...