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NEWS 170918 about Exton|OS Light Live DVD – now with Refracta tools!
I’ve made a new extra version of Exton|OS based on Ubuntu 17.10 (alias Artful Aardvark) 64 bit with only a minimum of packages pre-installed. Among them a terminal emulator (LXTerminal), a Web Browser (Google Chrome – so you can run Netflix), SMPlayer, SMTube (YouTube browser which allows to browse, search and play YouTube videos), PCManFM (file manager), Gimp, NetworkManager, GParted (Partition Editor), Samba (so you...
Guide those new to Linux, who are having a problem with, or question about, Kali.
What is Kali Linux?
Kali is an advanced Linux distribution, based on Debian, developed by Offensive Security Ltd., designed for digital forensics, penetration testing, and other network security auditing.
Posted 09-15-2017 at 02:20 PM bythe dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 09-15-2017 at 02:38 PM bythe dsc
You may have some trouble when trying to make sed replacements along the lines of:
sed 's|$originalpath|$otherpath/$filename|'
If the variables contain things like the "-" character, or some other special characters, some of the sed commands may be terminated before they should, in error, as it's taking part of the variable as sed commands, rather than parameters. Something like that. Then the variables would ideally be quoted, but with the outermost quotes, it's...
Got a new phone and ran into the usual trouble of how to get my pics and stuff on the phone to my computer.
Tried a couple of manual hacks which can work but are awkward such as mounting the device. The security on the new Android 6 + 7 messes up quite a bit of stuff there and all I want to do is transfer files back and forth. Pics from the phone to the computer some music to the phone.
NEWS 170914
Kernel 4.13.2-x86_64-exton is my newest Slackware kernel. Kernel 4.13.2 was released by Kernel.org yesterday. (September 13, 2017).
I have compiled a very useful (as I think) 64 bit kernel for SlackwareCurrent (14.2) and/or all Slackware derivatives. For example Slax, Zenwalk and SlackEX. The kernel is compiled exactly in the same way as Slackware’s latest kernel huge. “My” kernel 4.13.2-x86_64-exton has even more support for new hardware, etc. Kernel 4.13.2 is...
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