Sounds odd, I know. I think information should be free, but I am also wondering about the self-sustainability of those who offer up their time for free, for SE sites and open source developing. Is the goal attained to spread knowledge, finish a project, etc.?

-Made a 400 GB partition of free space -Installed most recent version of Ubuntu -Using Rufus I booted from a USB -Normal installation -> Something else -8000 MB Primary, Beginning of this space, Use as: swap area -92000 MB Primary, Beginning of this space, use as: Ext4 Journaling file system...

As we all know, when we reboot, shutdown or startup a system, some message will be printed on the screen, here is a capture: My system is Ubuntu 16.04, I know these log messages as above come from the systemd. As my understanding, a normal user-process can print things on the screen because t...

I have Linux based development board on which DWC3 USB controller driver is present. I have implemented Link Power Management(L2 state) in the usb driver. Ubuntu is the host which on which my development board is connected via USB. I need to perform regression testing of USB suspend-resume by us...

2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of Community Promotion Ads! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :) What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The...

I need help. I was normally using Ubuntu via Crouton, and while opening Parsec (remote-control desktop application) the laptop suddenly crashed. I'd opened Parsec before without error, but for some reason it happened to be a nonce that day. It's been three months, and I've tried everything to ...

im gonna try to keep this as short as possible i have a simple script that does all my sudo update upgrade etc this script is in my ~/.scripts folder and in my root user's ~/.scripts folder but when i try to sudo update i get an error saying sudo: update: command not found joshua@Linux:~$ whic...

I'm using a mouse keyboard combo as my main input device for my workstation. The PC is also connected to my TV. When watching TV I like to use a cheap keyboard with trackpad Since I am used to "natural scrolling" on my macbook, I would also like to use that for my trackpad. However, I would l...

I accidentally deleted important custom (not known-or-commercial) files from my scientific researches on image processing. The custom files are, let's say .xyz files which I generated by collecting raw digital signals from an image sensor. Then I raw write the file as byte array and there's no ...

I am running a simple game using Lua/Love2d, which shows the FPS on screen. On my Windows 10 host machine I am getting a consistent 60 FPS, which is desirable, and when running the same game in my Ubuntu 18.04 VM in VMware Player, it is reporting vastly higher FPS, fluctuating from 300 to over 40...

I recently replaced an SSD with a larger SSD. I used Clonezilla to clone the old disk to the new one. After that I used GParted Live to resize the existing partition, pushing the swap partition to the end of the disk. I also updated from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. After successfully finishing above ...

I have a Windows 10 OS now and I want to install Ubuntu on it with my bootable USB that has Ubuntu installed on it. When I start the computer and I click F8 to bring up the menu to select what I want to choose. I chose my USB drive and the Ubuntu screen shows up. After about 10 seconds the monito...

I have created output files names using a split command like out_part1_root,out_part2_root, so on and I have input files ending with a string like out_root and I want to change files created by a split command to the new files such that new files contain file name as input files and end with stri...