The post How to Detect Bad Sectors or Bad Blocks on Linux Hard Drives first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Let’s start by defining a bad sector/bad block, it is a section on a disk drive or flash memory that
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The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for April 13th, 2025, brings news about LMDE 7, OpenSSL 3.5, Pinta 3.0, DXVK 2.6.1, fwupd 2.0.8, IPFire 2.29 Core Update 193, as well as all the latest distro and software updates.
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The post How to Delete All Files in a Folder Except Certain Extensions first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Sometimes, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to delete all files in a directory or simply
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Review: Shebang 25.0 and EndeavourOS 2025.03.19
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A major new release of Rnote, an open-source app for taking handwritten notes, sketching out ideas and annotating documents and pictures, is out. Rnote 0.12 brings several new features, new customisation and configuration options, user experience buffs…
Another small but well-maintained distro with a dedicated following reaches the end of the trail.
Pinta, the popular free open-source drawing and image editing app, released new major 3.0 release yesterday. Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu users. Pinta 3.0 features GTK 4.0 and Libadwaita for its modern user interface that’s well integrated in recent GNOME desktop environments. It now automatically switches between light […]
This tutorial will help you install VLC Media Player on Ubuntu 24.04. VLC (Video LAN Client) is the most famous audio and movie player everybody who uses computer and phone knows and it is a free software licensed under GNU GPL. Its logo is the orange …
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Indulging your casual creativity (read: making memes, defacing selfies, etc) using open-source tools is made easier with the long-awaited release of Pinta 3.0. Pinta, as long-time Linux users will be aware, is a cross-platform raster graphics tool with…
Pinta 3.0 open-source paint and drawing software is now available for download with GTK4 port, new effects, and many other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Greetings! While these tiny issues will likely not affect many if any,
there are alas a few tiny errata with the 2.7.1 tarball release. Posted
here just for those interested. Will of course be incorporated in the
next release.
modified g…
Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 11 questions. Good luck!
Due to Apple Silicon changes, the Asahi Linux project is at odds with adding support for the M4 chips.
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Greetings!
Greetings! The GCL team is happy to announce the release of version
2.7.1, the culmination of many years of work and a major development
in the evolution of GCL. Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl for
downloading informat…
For old Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 with Ubuntu Pro enabled for extended 5 years of Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) updates support, it might sometimes cause 3rd party apps refuse to install and even output unmet dependency issue. This is because ESM apps have higher package priority 510, while most others are default to 500. […]
Don’t do this:
thing = Thing()
try:
thing.do_stuff()
finally:
thing.close()
Do do this:
from contextlib import closing
with closing(Thing()) as thing:
thing.do_stuff()
Why is the second better? Using contextlib.closing() ties closin…
Want to give more control of your graphics card in Ubuntu & other Linux? Here’s a graphical to do the job. It’s LACT, a free open-source GTK4 application written in Rust. With it, you may monitor and control NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD GPUs with following options: View detailed GPU information. Control GPU fan speed. Overclock […]
The post How to Verify Debian and Ubuntu Packages Using MD5 Checksums first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Have you ever wondered why a given binary or package installed on your system does not work according to your
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