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Today's Date: 12-13-2016

Activity since: 11-30-2016
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Title: "Logging via command as a certain user" (Date Posted 12-13-2016 by trickydba)
o 8 Replies, 29 Views, Last Post: 03:04 PM, 12-13-2016 by trickydba
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...er-4175595354/

Title: "Recommended way to watch videos with new Firefox ESR?" (Date Posted 12-13-2016 by Gustavo AzDbn)
o 5 Replies, 59 Views, Last Post: 02:47 PM, 12-13-2016 by 273
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...sr-4175595353/

Title: "Forgot to use nvidia-switch --remove before removing Slackbuilds.org nvidia-driver package" (Date Posted 12-13-2016 by Strela9K)
o 2 Replies, 86 Views, Last Post: 01:46 PM, 12-13-2016 by bassmadrigal
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ge-4175595351/

Title: "LQ Stylish Themes" (Date Posted 12-13-2016 by szboardstretcher)
o 0 Replies, 80 Views, Last Post: 12:47 PM, 12-13-2016 by szboardstretcher
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...es-4175595350/

Title: "I build my own kernel. Do I need the kernel-firmware and kernel-headers packages?" (Date Posted 12-13-2016 by RandomTroll)
o 4 Replies, 119 Views, Last Post: 01:32 PM, 12-13-2016 by bassmadrigal
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...es-4175595348/

Title: "Unable to install New CentOS 7.3-1611" (Date Posted 12-13-2016 by codyngr)
o 2 Replies, 90 Views, Last Post: 02:04 PM, 12-13-2016 by codyngr
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-a-4175595347/


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Title: "Can't boot into EOS after PRAM reset on MB pro" (Date Posted 12-13-2016 by Straitsfan)
o 77 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ro-4175595345/

Title: "Refresh rate flicker on desktop using Nvidia drivers >358 in Ubuntu 16.x" (Date Posted 12-13-2016 by Glop)
o 87 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-x-4175595341/

Title: "Backtrack5R3 wirekess configuration in VMware" (Date Posted 12-13-2016 by AshfaqAbbas)
o 82 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...re-4175595329/

Title: "rtorrent hogging the network" (Date Posted 12-13-2016 by robertjinx)
o 122 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rk-4175595322/

Title: "Setting up Debian machine as VPN test platform" (Date Posted 12-13-2016 by BruceV)
o 178 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rm-4175595314/

Title: "Root in grub-efi-amd64 with raid1" (Date Posted 12-12-2016 by KlaasJan)
o 215 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d1-4175595287/


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Title: "bash shell script read file line by line." (Date Posted 01-20-2004 by Darren[UoW])
o 1737862 Views, 57 Replies, Last Post: 08:07 PM, 04-17-2016 by Norseman01
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...y-line-136784/

Title: "Learn the DD command" (Date Posted 09-11-2005 by AwesomeMachine)
o 1466254 Views, 852 Replies, Last Post: 12:41 AM, 10-06-2016 by AwesomeMachine
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ommand-362506/

Title: "how do I get apt-get to completely uninstall a package?" (Date Posted 10-02-2004 by muxman)
o 1298641 Views, 32 Replies, Last Post: 07:54 AM, 09-16-2016 by JeremyBoden
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ackage-237772/

Title: "What programs would you like to see ported to Linux?" (Date Posted 10-19-2003 by jeremy)
o 1059218 Views, 6134 Replies, Last Post: 03:05 PM, 12-06-2016 by 273
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-linux-105955/


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Title: "MLB.TV in Linux" (Date Posted 04-06-2006 by Fugazi)
o 4910 Replies, 684583 Views, Last Post: 02:31 AM, 10-06-2016 by daftcat
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-linux-432479/

Title: "This is my Slackware desktop..." (Date Posted 05-13-2009 by w1k0)
o 2885 Replies, 579739 Views, Last Post: 07:08 PM, 12-09-2016 by SCerovec
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...esktop-725754/

Title: "Requests for -current (20151216)" (Date Posted 12-16-2015 by rworkman)
o 1885 Replies, 195707 Views, Last Post: 07:34 PM, 12-12-2016 by cwizardone
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-a-4175561577/

Title: "The mass exodus if Slackware uses Systemd" (Date Posted 10-26-2014 by UnixPhilosophy)
o 1686 Replies, 120341 Views, Last Post: 01:18 PM, 02-19-2015 by jeremy
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...md-4175523380/


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Question: Currently utilising acceleration on Mali 400 GPU
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Question: Do You Compile Your Own Kernel or Use The One Shipped With Your Distribution?
o 'I compile my own kernel (official tree) ' (50 Votes)
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o 'Other' (12 Votes)
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o 'SELinux ' (4 Votes)
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o 'Other' (3 Votes)
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