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Today's Date: 01-03-2017

Activity since: 12-15-2016
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Title: "Problem installing Slackware 14.2, elusive /etc/fstab not found" (Date Posted 01-03-2017 by loic1489)
o 0 Replies, 0 Views, Last Post: 12:07 PM, 01-03-2017 by loic1489
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nd-4175596709/

Title: "Need help understanding Kernel releases and their relationship with different distros" (Date Posted 01-03-2017 by atkol29a)
o 1 Replies, 12 Views, Last Post: 12:00 PM, 01-03-2017 by hydrurga
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...os-4175596707/

Title: "Standard wildcard and regex" (Date Posted 01-03-2017 by fanoflq)
o 2 Replies, 36 Views, Last Post: 12:02 PM, 01-03-2017 by grail
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ex-4175596706/

Title: "sar disk io output" (Date Posted 01-03-2017 by loadedmind)
o 0 Replies, 23 Views, Last Post: 11:35 AM, 01-03-2017 by loadedmind
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ut-4175596705/

Title: "Slackware 14.2 multilib - Icecast fails to build" (Date Posted 01-03-2017 by glupa4e)
o 2 Replies, 30 Views, Last Post: 12:02 PM, 01-03-2017 by willysr
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ld-4175596704/

Title: "Python .encode("utf-8") is causing lost of end of lines while writing to file" (Date Posted 01-03-2017 by slimcharles)
o 4 Replies, 36 Views, Last Post: 12:01 PM, 01-03-2017 by slimcharles
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...le-4175596703/


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o 35 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ys-4175596701/

Title: "<Limit LOGIN> error on Apache Ubuntu 16.04" (Date Posted 01-03-2017 by Razvancs)
o 76 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-a-4175596698/

Title: "Help in using ext2explore" (Date Posted 01-03-2017 by vinaykharayat)
o 60 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...re-4175596696/

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o 90 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...er-4175596695/

Title: "[x86] from masm to nasm" (Date Posted 01-03-2017 by Erght)
o 6 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...sm-4175596688/

Title: "Can't see/mount SMB shares through terminal" (Date Posted 01-03-2017 by Peter Pfand)
o 121 Views
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...al-4175596684/


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Title: "bash shell script read file line by line." (Date Posted 01-20-2004 by Darren[UoW])
o 1738484 Views, 57 Replies, Last Post: 07:07 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 1474820 Views, 852 Replies, Last Post: 11:41 PM, 10-05-2016 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 1300605 Views, 32 Replies, Last Post: 06:54 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 1062971 Views, 6137 Replies, Last Post: 05:57 AM, 01-01-2017 by grumpyskeptic
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, 686288 Views, Last Post: 01:31 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 2899 Replies, 584222 Views, Last Post: 10:13 PM, 01-02-2017 by mralk3
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...esktop-725754/

Title: "Requests for -current (20151216)" (Date Posted 12-16-2015 by rworkman)
o 1913 Replies, 202564 Views, Last Post: 04:53 PM, 01-01-2017 by atelszewski
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, 120798 Views, Last Post: 12:18 PM, 02-19-2015 by jeremy
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...md-4175523380/


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Question: Should all be multiple choice?
o 'Yes ' (4 Votes)
o 'No ' (1 Votes)
o 'Some' (3 Votes)
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Question: Jave You tried run Slackware live?
o 'Yes, and I like it a lot ' (8 Votes)
o 'Yes, but I don't know what to do with it or I don't like it ' (1 Votes)
o 'No, I didn't know there is an true Slackware live media' (1 Votes)
View Poll Results: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...p?t=4175595855

Question: Preferred combination of stable/current and ktown?
o 'Stable ' (18 Votes)
o 'Stable + ktown ' (3 Votes)
o 'Current ' (17 Votes)
o 'Current + ktown (latest) ' (8 Votes)
o 'Current + ktown (testing)' (1 Votes)
View Poll Results: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...p?t=4175595779

Question: Currently utilising acceleration on Mali 400 GPU
o 'Yes, of course ' (1 Votes)
o 'No, but later imight ' (1 Votes)
o 'No, I didn't bother' (0 Votes)
View Poll Results: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...p?t=4175594991

Question: Favorite emulator frontend
o 'Steam + Ice ' (2 Votes)
o 'Emulation Station ' (1 Votes)
o 'Lutris ' (0 Votes)
o 'AdvanceMenu ' (0 Votes)
o 'Just the UIs provided by the emulators themselves' (3 Votes)
View Poll Results: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...p?t=4175589846


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