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The answer is provided on that link you provided. It describes the difference between gigabytes (GB) and gibibytes (GiB) which explains the difference. Manufacturers use gigabytes and linux utilities such as some of those in post #34 use gibibytes. The link is quite clear in its exposition.

The ubuntu package is named: libsdl2-2.0-0 according to ubuntu's package search website. It's available for these releases:

It's likely that the "permission denied" message is because the file schismtracker doesn't have execute permissions. To check that run, in the directory where it is: ls -al schismtracker If the permissions look like this: -rw-r--r--, without any x, then you can change the permissions with the...

I cannot answer your question, but I do know there are many undocumented kernel options and command options that one finds when researching various problems online. In relation to linux documentation such as the man pages, they are written at a certain point in time but the software of the...

In relation to the outputs of commands on the capacity of hard drives, one needs to be mindful of the difference between gigabytes (x1000) and gibibytes (x1024). Here are some examples on a machine with a 500GB disk. [root@mon ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes...

In the discussion on trim and swap it's worth noting a few aspects which may be helpful in understanding the situation. The kernel has supported trim since the 2.6.33 version with trimming of swap partitions occurring each time the kernel boots normally into a system on an ssd that supports...

@84773 wrote: Try: cd /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-14:1.0/physical_location duplicating the situation which the output in post #8 is reported. In relation to the device number being incremented, that is normal and a function of the fact that the kernel has to see each instance of the device...

@84773 wrote: There are a few ways of determining which usb is plugged into which port. One way is to determine the usb controller based number when plugging the usb in, then inspecting the details of the physical location in the /sys directory. To do it this way, run in a terminal: dmesg -w...

@wizardfromoz wrote: The man page for reboot has information that differs from the information in the quote in post #5. In particular this extract from man reboot is informative about "poweroff, reboot and halt": This suggests that reboot will close down gracefully, unmounting filesystems...

Some guidelines: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.19/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.html It may be the case that the kernel issue belongs to a distribution in the sense that the vanilla kernel from kernel.org has been modified by the distribution, in which case, the bug reporting process of the...

Here is an explanatory video on the spectre exploit which may interest readers of the thread. There's a bit of an update on spectre2. It gets a little technical in parts, but basically the narrator points to the security issues in the CPUs which among other things, neutralise or bypass password...

As I understand it, the OP is creating the mirror on his own machine, and the files at 127.0.0.1 shown in the post #1 are the locations on the machine for the repos.

Here some instructions on using the grub shell which you have encountered: https://superuser.com/questions/1237684/how-to-boot-from-grub-shell The reason the machine has booted to the grub prompt could be for quite a number of reasons including: corrupted grub files, missing boot partition...

KGIII wrote: Here are some results. In the URL box in the browser, firefox in this case, the following outputs appear: https://localhost/home/tom Unable to connect An error occurred during a connection to localhost. The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a...

What comes to mind about the failure to see: http://127.0.0.1 , is that it's a file on the system, and may actually need to be designated: file:///<some-path-to-directory> And on the forward slash in the sources.list mentioned in post #10, it's not necessary. See the example here...