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Getting Tuxedo laptop fans to work on BSD
This question pertains to Tuxedo laptops (and possibly Clevo, Uniwill, or Tongfang laptops, which Tuxedo systems appear to be based on). Tuxedo provides official support for Windows and Linux, but I'm ...
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Unreal Engine games supporting Linux
Unreal Engine and other engines support making games for multiple platforms like iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS and Linux. The games are distributed as pre-compiled executables and they all need ...
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Bazzite WSL Distro For UE 5.4 Clang Cross-Compile Testing
So basically I would like to create a WSL Bazzite distribution to test the Unreal Engine Cross-Compilation tools for testing. I found this container image hoping I would be able to export as a tar ...
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How to Create Unofficial Linux Desktop Apps? [closed]
I am a new developer and I have recently noticed that several applications do not officially support Linux desktop apps. However, I've seen developers create their own open-source unofficial versions ...
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port ubuntu kernel to rhel
I need to port ubuntu kernel with HWE to RHEL 9. I have experience in fedora like systems but not in debian like systems. I have Downloaded the kernel source using apt source but don't know what to do ...
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is it possible to integrate bc calculator in an app (script interpreter) as a library?
is it possible to integrate bc command line calculator in an app (script interpreter) as a library? I am not asking if that can be done, I am asking if there is something ready already that wraps bc ...
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How do Linux kernel developers find bugs and other places for improvement in the Linux kernel?
This may or may not be off-topic. If it is, leave a comment and I'll take it down. I am trying to become a kernel developer myself, and reading some of the mailing lists, I can only help but wonder ...
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Modpost: "module … uses symbol … from namespace …" error porting FL2000_DRM driver to newer version
I'm trying to port https://github.com/kenballus/fl2000_drm_519, designed for linux 5.19, to linux 6.2.11, but after applying the patches attached below, I'm getting this error and I don't know how to ...
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Programmatically query last DHCP lease time
I have a buildroot embedded Linux where I change the ethernet port settings (i.e. disabled, static or DHCP) from a C++ program. When switching to DHCP, it would be nice to determine when (i.e. ...
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Which component of the Linux (OS) stack handle BT speakers and smartwatches?
I reverse engineered Bluetooth interfaces of the UE Boom 3 speaker and Pebble 2 smartwatch, documented them and made Python scripts to use all the same features of their official iOS apps. I could ...
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Can I develop Windows, macOS, and Linux software or a game on one Linux distribution? [closed]
I'm new in here and I still don't have a lot of experience and knowledge about Linux and software development. I was thinking to start learning software and game development and I am currently ...
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Simulate touch manipulation on Linux
I'd like to test how well my Linux app works on Linux-based touch devices. Unfortunately, I don't have such a device, which is why I'd like to find a way to simulate touch gestures on a standard ...
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Broken eslint for Linux command `eslint`
Once upon a time, I wanted to write an app. I learned about common practices, it lead me to more and more discoveries. Out of the blue, I found about lint, which means beauty code patterns. In my app, ...
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Preventing POSIX capabilities proliferation
Generally speaking, a unix (or specifically Linux) program can't do something like using ICMP_ECHO ("ping") to check the accessibility of a router unless either run by the superuser or ...
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Is there any difference between #include <linux/ioctl.h> and #include <sys/ioctl.h>?
I have to write a device driver code for temperature sensor using IOCTL, when I was going through a lot of sample codes, I found while surfing the net, I came across this difference in header file, I ...