Questions tagged [development]
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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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Android 12 and 14 GPUWatch missing
I am doing some generic testing for performance for Android 12-14 with our work build / devices. On two of the devices (XCover5 and Active Tab5 Pro running Android 13 and 14 respectively) i have ...
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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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Why error this code of GobiSerial?
this code of GobiSerial driver, however when I load and using dmesg to check => it show error sending startMessage
Why nResult error?
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USB serial port driver
Writing new driver for wp7607 base on GobiSerial and qcserial.
I only defined the init(), exit() and probe() functions but I can still use the AT command with just such a simple driver.
How can the AT ...
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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 ...
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