With CentOS 7 Ive used the Live Image in stores like Staples to test (mostly) laptops for compatibility simply by booting the computer off of a flash drive and getting the desktop up and trying stuff out (sound, networking, touchpad, etc.)If it doe..
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Im not kind of an expert using Lyx, but I occasionally do some structured writing and on those occasions Ive really enjoyed using Lyx; the workflow and the output just cant be beat.Im enough of a novice with it that Ive never used anything other t..
Back in the days of DOS I had a program that I obtained from somewhere called FILL.FILL would take the name of a directory and then start writing files from that directory onto a series of floppy disks in such a way that each disk was made as full..
With CentOS 7 and earlier Ive been using the Live CD image to test new hardware (laptops etc) for compatibility.That way I can get a desktop up and try the sound and the networking and whatnot without affecting what is already installed on the machi..
Without wanting to sound too pushy, Im wondering if there is any update on the status of Mate now that CentOS 8 has been released?I would love to jump on C8 and start playing with it, but the lack of Mate is kind ofa showstopper for me at t..
According to Twitter:https://mobile.twitter.com/CentOSProject/status/1173652996305170432The next version of #CentOS is being released September 24 and will be announced in all the usual places.Im wondering about the status of the Mate Desktop.Look..
The currently available fix for Firefox doesnt work with ESR, but theres a temporary fix that works.At least, its working for me:Go to about:config and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false.The Firefox folks say that a fix for ESR will be com..
I have several pdf files as .pdf.bz2, as seen here:a/1.pdf.bz2a/2.pdf.bz2a/b/3.pdf.bz2a/b/c/4.pdf.bz2I want to copy everything in and under directory a to another computer, but I want the files to be decompressed on the destination machine:a/1.pdf a/2…
yum remove lightdmThat command tells me that its also going to remove lightdm-gobject and lightdm-gtk.rpm -q –whatrequires lightdm no package requires lightdmSo obviously we cant take the word of the –whatrequires option from the rpm command si..
On a fully updated CentOS 7 system with the Mate desktop, Ive just encountered what appears to be a bug in.. something?I connected a USB portable hard drive and copied some files onto it, then right-clicked the icon and Safely remove drive.After ab..
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