I asked on Facebook how to do this and I was given this solution. deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ lisa main upstream import sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linuxmint-keyring sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mint-meta-mate This will install the MATE packages and allow you to remove the abominable Unity desktop.
The Linux Mint distribution is switching to the Gnome 3 desktop after all of this time. Sure they are keeping the Gnome 2 desktop environment, but they are implementing the MATE fork of the Gnome 2 desktop, that will be trying to keep the familiar Gnome 2 desktop that everyone seems to love, despite the … Read more
The Fedora 15 Gnome desktop is very different to the earlier Gnome 2 desktop environment. After I installed the distribution, I had to change the /etc/hosts file to allow the Midnight Commander to load, as the hostname was not correctly defined in /etc/hosts. The settings below are what I had to define to get the … Read more
The recent attacks on Desktop Linux enacted by the cracking of the Kernel.org website and the more recent attacks against the Linux Foundation websites has cast a cloud over desktop Linux. The Kernel.org website is still down for maintenance and the security of the Linux kernel is in doubt. The story on Slashdot says that … Read more
Hello there. I have just finished installing the vanilla 2.6.36-rc6 kernel in my Gentoo installation in a chroot, I tried to boot the standard Gentoo kernel and I got an error after the “Starting Mdev” line that said that the kernel could not find the root block device, but the file-system drivers for ext4 were … Read more
http://www.securitronlinux.com/linux/lc/ This is a library of PDF files that will help new users of Linux set up their system and get to grips with the command line and Linux software. I uploaded these a while ago and I thought I would post about them again to alert my visitors that they are available. They are … Read more
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/V-3—You-Cant-Go-GNOME-Again-72266.html This is the Gnome 3 desktop I have been talking about, I have downloaded the OpenSuse based Live CD and I have actually tried it myself and I have to say it sucks royally. Look at this screenshot of the start menu, this is very hard to use at 1920×1440 pixels resolution, I can … Read more
I just discovered a very cool package that is available for the Debian Linux distribution, the GWorkspace desktop, the GNU Workspace manager. This depicted in the screenshot to the right is an interesting desktop that comes with a file manager and when loaded with Window Maker gives you a fast desktop and you can create … Read more
It is not long until Fedora 15 is released, including Gnome 3.0 and Gnome Shell. Then it will have a revolutionary desktop environment. Ubuntu 11.04 will include the Unity desktop and the default media player for music will be the Banshee media player, formerly called Helix Banshee, which is not a bad media player at … Read more
Tried the FreeBSD DVD on my system last night, I got the operating system installed and the Gnome 2.30 desktop up and running, but I could not get the Intel graphics driver to work with my i3 CPU and Gigabyte H55 motherboard. I guess there is not as much support for this distribution as there … Read more
I am typing this in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx alpha and despite the problems I had with the Nvidia drivers and having to use the driver downloaded from the Nvidia website instead of the supplied driver which failed to install, I am happy with it so far, the grub2 menu is not as slow as the … Read more
Just switched to the AmiWM desktop for my Linux installation, I am typing this in a custom build of Emacs. I built this from source and it is good for a first try, I need to get the Xaw3d development packages and some more X development packages to get more features, but it works very … Read more
I have just started using a Linspire 5.0 live CD when I am browsing the web and it seems to be the best way to browse the web safely. It has Mozilla 1.6 and OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 as well as an outstanding Kde desktop. And it auto-detects the network settings and mounts my USB thumb drives … Read more