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  1. wizardfromoz

    We Want A Wave - When Do We Want It? Now

    This For Fun thread is for those of us whom would like to do something a little silly, like wave at our friends. both old and new. Details for how to put these .gifs together can be found at David G ( @KGIII ) 's website, specifically here...
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    Today - Have A Green Beer

    Begorrah and Saints preserve us. 'Tis Saint Patrick's Day in Australia, so won't you be having a green beer on the house? Oirish Wizard
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    Welcome to New Staff Member - An Old Hand

    I would like to welcome to the ranks of Staff our new Super Moderator, Jas @JasKinasis :) Jas is coming up on 10 years with this site. His experience, his knowledge and his selfless willingness to help others, I have no doubt will prove to be an asset to this Community. Thanks, Jas, for...
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    Parrot Squawks - Kernel Indigestion - Wizards Corner

    I had a problem with my Parrot Home Edition a couple of days ago (5th January), following the running of a substantial number of updates which included a kernel upgrade. The nature of some of the updates was such that I knew in advance that, on completion and reboot, Parrot would take the lead...
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    Thunar - Add Open As Root Functionality - Wizards Corner

    The following I have recorded in Xubuntu 22.04 'Jammy Jellyfish', but it can be applied to most cases where Thunar is the File Manager, that is, under the Xfce Desktop Environment. Viewing Time - 4m 14s Level of Difficulty - Intermediate Soon I will provide a little more detail where a...
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    Solved Any Members Using Fedora 39 Beta? Wizards Corner

    This thread I will temporarily pin until (or not) it gets a positive response :) If someone is running Fedora 39 Beta (workstation), can you at Terminal input the following dnf info glibc ... and provide me with the output? I am aware that the Beta ships with glibc-2.37-1.fc38.x86_64 but...
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    Solved Gecko - Cinnamon package conflicts with 20230925 TW snapshot - Wizards Corner

    G'day This Thread constitutes both a “heads up” to users of Gecko Linux, and is also partially a support question for our own Member, maintainer of Gecko Linux and Spiral, @GeckoLinux . The warning as best I can tell only applies to users of Gecko Tumbleweeds Cinnamon, not other versions, nor...
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    OS-PROBER - Setting a cat amongst the pigeons - Wizards Corner

    IMPACTS ON: Debian 12 Bookworm MX-23 Beta 2 (Bookworm) Peppermint 12 (Bookworm) My install dates and times: Debian 12 Bookworm - Mon Jun 12 10:36:38 2023 MX-23 Beta 2 (Bookworm) - Tue Jun 20 13:20:05 2023 Peppermint 12 (Bookworm) - Sun Jul 2 14:57:14 2023 Kernel (all three) is...
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    Language Translations

    @TuxBot Bạn có thể giải thích Linux cho một thành viên là người Việt Nam bằng ngôn ngữ won của anh ấy không
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    More On Shutter - Wizards Corner

    BACKGROUND READING David G.’s @KGIII ‘s article here https://www.linux.org/threads/todays-article-has-you-taking-screenshots-with-shutter.38342/ which links to his website article here https://linux-tips.us/take-edit-and-upload-screenshots-with-shutter/ PROBLEM As David has said in his...
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    REVIEW - Ubuntu 23.04 'Lunar Lobster' - Cinnamon - Wizards Corner

    Name of Distro, DE and Family Ubuntu 23.04 ‘Lunar Lobster’ Cinnamon - Debian-based Name of .iso and size, architecture, source for downloading and SHAsum ubuntucinnamon-23.04-desktop-amd64.iso 4.6 GB DistroWatch via SourceForge SHA 256...
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    EOLs Imminent - Wizard Reshuffles Stable - Wizards Corner

    Just a quick question first of @pepdebian - Mate, am I right in thinking that Peppermint 9, Peppermint 10 and Peppermint 10 Respin all hit EOL end of this month? If so, can you tell me the date, please? For The Viewers, I will get into the main thrust of this Thread as soon as I have that...
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    Condobloke's Birthday

    Have a good one, Cobber ;)
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    Cinnamon Desktop Icons Where You Want Them - Wizards Corner

    INTRODUCTION This thread stems from an enquiry elsewhere, but am detailing my solution here so that it is not lost so quickly. Also, questions may be asked and answered. The OP asked I have Fedora 37 Cinnamon, so I set about finding a solution. PRELIMINARY I have four (4) icons on my...
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    Troubleshooting Wizard-Style - Multi-booting Problem and Solution 1 - Wizard Makes a Booboo

    SUBJECT AREA - Multi-booting LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY - Intermediate to Advanced CAN OCCUR WHEN - following a significant number of updates including kernel and grub updates READING TIME – 5 minutes RESOLUTION/RECOVERY TIME – 10 minutes BACKGROUND I was working on my Linux Mint 20.0 ‘Ulyssa’ MATE...
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    A Seasonal Message From A Wizard

    At this time of year, I am uplifted to see, around the site, so many Members, new and old (and likewise with their Memberships), enjoying a joke, sharing and making friendships. I have hesitated to share with the General Membership the news that on 30th May past, I lost my wife of 24 years...
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    Found This By Coincidence

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oldgremlin-hackers-use-linux-ransomware-to-attack-russian-orgs/ Note that I do not get involved with politics of the nation concerned, it is the nature of the threat which is of interest to me. Cheers and Avagudweegend. Chris Turner wizardfromoz
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    [SOLVED] Kinetic Kudu - Possible Problems With Timeshift GUI

    This thread may be of particular importance to David G. @KGIII and Chris G. @guiverc , as they are both on the Lubuntu/Ubuntu team. I have been working for the past 2 weeks plus on an issue with Timeshift's GUI falling over (whether creating or deleting a snapshot) on Arch-based distros and...
  19. wizardfromoz

    Linux - edX Course Begins

    https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-linux Starts 19 May, but you may be able to jump in on it later, and just put in an extra hour or two a week. Free, 14 weeks - I undertook it about 8 - 9 years ago and found it quite good. Cheers Wiz
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    Why Does The Wizard Use So Many Distros? Wizards Corner

    A number of answers spring to mind - 1. By using so many, when Members ask for an opinion on a Distro, chances are I am running it, and can weigh in. 2. By using different Distros from different Families (Debian, Arch, Redhat, Gentoo), I can acquire the knowledge of those commands which are...
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