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"Sup folks, Most 'modern' OSes are basically spyware with a desktop environment. I decided to take a different path with Verum Node OS. I’ve spent the last few months hacking away at the 7.1 kernel to see how much performance was being left on the table by commercial tracking and bloat. Turns...

Hello, I have switched to Fedora from Arch as I wanted an up to date system, without the absolute bleeding edge approach Arch goes for. This along with how much good I hear about consistently about Fedora made it seem like a no brainer. I have it installed, set up, Ive got some RPM fusion...

Hey guys, I have a problem.Why are the bottom two corners of this formatting window right angles instead of rounded to match the top ones? I’ve noticed this window across many Linux distros, and it seems tied to the Linux kernel. I stick to default settings and don’t customize much—will future...

Let's take it step by step. I have tried everything possible to install a different distribution on my brother's laptop, and it has not worked. His laptop is a Victus by HP Gaming Laptop 15-fb1013dx. Secure boot is disabled and nothing can be changed. When I try to boot the ISO in the Grub menu...

Hello everyone, I bought a new Acer Swift X, which comes with an rtx 5060, touchpad with stylus and touch screen. All of it works perfectly fine except the touchpad. It does recognise the Stylus as a mouse it seems but the stylus buttons dont do anything. Also touch and gestures don't work. So...

Hello everyone, I'm having trouble getting my ZTopInc 802.11n NIC USB Wi-Fi adapter to work. Its device ID is ID 350b:9101. I'm running Fedora, and I need some help installing its driver. I tried compiling the driver from a Realtek RTL8188EU repository (as this chipset is often a re-branded...

Hi, like the title says: What happens to Linux, when Linus Tourvalds is dead?

Hello everyone, I am a senior student. I am doing a graduation project related to encrypting USB memory partitions using LUKS but not using the existing block encryption algorithm but using a new block encryption algorithm in Vietnam. I have completed the code but I don't know how to create...

Does anyone know of a table that shows, for newer hardware versions (like Intel Meteor Lake), which linux kernel version is the minimum that will boot on that hardware and get to a point where the kernel can be upgraded (a stable root console)?

Just bought this USB-C docking station and USB ports work OK but HDMI is not working. https://tripplite.eaton.com/support/u442dock7db They offer a kernel 5.x or lower driver on their website. I am on kernel 6. Is it safe trying to install the kernel 5 driver? Should I have any special...

I have 2 kernels installed: dpkg --list | grep linux-image ii linux-image-6.7.12+bpo-amd64 6.7.12-1~bpo12+1 amd64 Linux 6.7 for 64-bit PCs (signed) ii linux-image-6.9.7+bpo-amd64 6.9.7-1~bpo12+1...

Before I start, I need to mention that I didn't save the list of all of the kernels that were on the system, as I figured that if I followed the directions online, that removing the old kernels would be pretty straightforward. Having that said, I'll start: Due to getting an error messge I'm...

Hello guys! I am trying to boot a Linux Image v5.4.24 in the imx8qm. Unfortunately, I'm getting a panic message in the memory initialization. This is kernel messages: [22:07:08:735] [ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000080200000-0x00000000a01fffff] [22:07:08:735] [ 0.000000] SError...

Preface: I own an Intel Core i9-13900K, installed on my home PC. There was recent news that indicated mysterious hardware failure affecting the Raptor Lake CPUs, specifically the unlocked Core i9s from the 13th and 14th generations. Although the sources that first reported this issue were using...

Hello, I upgraded my Debian (11 Bullseye) on 29th of May and I got a problem. Since then I get error messages on boot and the lowest resolution on lightDM and desktop. It must be Nvidia it seems. The errors from boot are: The output of # systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service: The...

I am Maysara, a PhD student at the University of Bristol. I am running a study to evaluate the usability of Seccomp, and I am looking for developers who have experience using it. The study session is 1.5 hour, you will be asked to sandbox a simple C program using Seccomp, and you will get a...

(System info at the bottom) I was trying to solve the issue mentioned here and here. So i tried installing the kernel v6.8-rc1 instead of the one i currently have v6.7.1 I downloaded the deb packages: 51153206 .rw-rw-r-- 1 3.4M 6704 user user 22 Jan 07:42...

Hello everyone, I am making a custom Linux distribution and I want to mount the rootfs manually using an executable from initramfs and then load into a shell from that rootfs. However, it seems like there's no such option in the kernel configuration tool. Is it possible to do that? Current...

is it possible to make a file, that when read or written to it would run a program, which would actually output the data from the file? say a file with a pattern, so it wouldn't have to take up so much space.

I posted this question on this forum and now I repost it here in hopes of getting a quick solution. due to my low english proficiency,please don’t be surprised if there are any strange expressions. I'm trying to develop a driver for a device like this to solve some of the device's problems...