Questions tagged [distro]
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programming my own kernel
I need some directions to start learning about programming my own operating system kernel.
Just for educational purpouses.
How can I write my own Kernel?
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Simple and quick oozie installation steps on unix
I am trying to install ozzie on my Unix machine, however i am getting error while executing the distro file.
I have tried making changes into pom.xml of oozie, but that also did not worked.
I hvae followed below links…

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Which is the lightweight linux for virtualbox?
I am completely new to Linux and I want to download and practice linux commands without letting go of my windows pc. I have a Dell Inspiron with 500 GB Hard Drive, 4 GB RAM and Pentium CPU B980 (2.4 GHz) processor with Windows 8.1 on it. I installed…

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Apache Oozie 3.3.2 Build error | Plugin resolution exception
I have been trying to install Oozie with Apache Hadoop version 1.2.1 on Centos 6.4
Maven 3.2.1 has been installed. While trying to build a distribution with the below command, I got the following error
mkdistro.sh -e -DskipTests
[WARNING] Some…

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Compiling Qt5 project without QT Creator
We have built a large-ish program using QT Creator 5 on Fedora (easy install). We now have to compile for older distro's including RH5 and RH6.
I realize that QT Creator doesn't support the older versions of libstdc++ which ship with RH5 and RH6. …

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Changing the default directory structure
If I start a new distro (e.g. LFS):
How can I change the directory structure?
What should I expect after it's ready? (probably can't install most of the packages without modification, right?
But, before you down vote: I've been asked to make a…

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Linux Mint make Kohana's logs and cache writable
I can't properly install kohana on my mint distro, because the cache and logs aren't writable. I've tried chmod 777 cache and same for logs, but it just won't change. chmod a+w didn't help either.
Any solutions?

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Which distro to use for learning linux(job perspective)?
Which distro to use for learning linux(from job perspective). Which distro is used by most software companies? I was wondering about whether to go for RHEL or Ubuntu or any other. What would be the best choice?

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Docker Desktop Windows 10, but do not work with my second wsl2 ubuntu distro
I have already a Windows 10 and Docker-Desktop working good, and I work my docker proyects from my wsl2 ubuntu 22.04 without any problem, but:
I decide to instal my second wsl2 ubuntu 20.04 distro, and do not work with my docker like my other distro…

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Ubuntu distro always start in setup mode
We have our own distribution of Linux based on Ubuntu Server 18.04 with a lot of customizations.
We have a .sh for generating the ISO. Everything works good.
What we want is that ISO to start always in 'setup mode' without the need to press…

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Importing distro to compute engine
I want to import Linufix to the compute engine.
Anyone knows the steps to import a distro from the ISO image file?
Will it give me X window access to load the GUI from remote or just an ssh console?
Thanks

Reza
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LAMP setup on elderly hardware?
My former roommate agreed to host my web site for a while on his server while I got situated at my new apartment with my wife (also new). He is looking to move soon and wants to retire his web server, so I need to build a server for my own use.
I…

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lvmetad is not up in systemd even though enabled in lvm.conf file(use_lvmetad=1). lvmetad is not coming up by default
Trying to bring up system with systemd.
If I start lvm2 manually it comes up, but not coming up by default at booting time.
If not enabled manually getting warning "/var/run/lvm/lvmetad.socket: connect failed".
Thanks in advance.

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How do I make a linux image which is of my current system?
I want a really minimalistic version of linux to run on my raspberry pi. I need nothing on it apart form the tools to make it work. I can then install the things I need such as python, nano, ssh etc.
Is there a version of linux like that? I was…

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What is a good live-cd distribution that could be used as the base for my linux program?
There is an upcoming programming challenge (forensics challenge) that asks the entrants to write a program that runs on a bootable cd that helps format attached media to that computer.
I'm considering submitting an entry and I'd like to utilize as…

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