How you can install the Ubuntu Unity desktop on your Linux Mint 15 system. use this command to install the Lightdm login manager; the Unity desktop and other assorted paraphernalia that goes with it. I just did this today with Mint and this worked. You need the ubuntu-desktop package installed to make use of this … Read more
The Ubuntu 13.10 distribution is buggy beyond belief. I was trying to use a chroot to attempt to fix my Ubuntu 13.10 and I am having countless problems with the whole process. The chroot works very well with the Gentoo Linux distribution; why is 13.10 Ubuntu so bad? They hype this distribution as the next … Read more
To install the old xmms mp3 player on Fedora 19 just use this command. root@neo homer# yum install xmms.x86_64 xmms-mp3.x86_64 xmms-pulse.x86_64 xmms-flac.x86_64root@neo homer# yum install xmms.x86_64 xmms-mp3.x86_64 xmms-pulse.x86_64 xmms-flac.x86_64 This will install xmms as well as support for the Pulseaudio sound system and the FLAC sound codec. I thought that this old music player was … Read more
How to setup Windows Server 2012 in Virtualbox. I have just installed Windows Server 2012 in Virtualbox to experiment with and this works very well with the Virtualbox Guest Additions installed. Firstly, type this command to install the required software. homer@eren-titan /usr/share/virtualbox $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox virtualbox-guest-additions-isohomer@eren-titan /usr/share/virtualbox $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox virtualbox-guest-additions-iso … Read more
The new Linux Mint 16 distro will include the MATE 1.8 and Cinnamon 2.0. The new Linux Mint 16 distribution will include the MATE 1.8 desktop environment and the new Cinnamon 2.0 release. This will further improve the Linux Mint distribution. The new release will be named Petra and should be available at the end … Read more
I am currently in the process of installing the MATE desktop on my Debian 7.1 laptop. I wanted to install this desktop as I am sick of the Gnome 3 desktop and I want something that I can theme more easily. The instructions are on the MATE Download WIKI: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download. Once this is installed I … Read more
System 76 have released a new touch screen laptop that runs the free Ubuntu Linux distribution. Base pricing begins at US$899.00 for the machine with an Intel Core i5 CPU clocked at 1.5 GHZ. There is 4 Gigabytes of DDR3 RAM installed and Intel HD 4400 Graphics along with a 500 Gigabyte 5400 RPM HDD. … Read more
This posting on Ask Ubuntu has a great tutorial explaining how you can transform your Ubuntu installation and make it look like Windows 7. http://askubuntu.com/questions/50581/is-there-an-ubuntu-theme-available-to-make-it-look-like-windows-7. This is a great idea. You can fool people into thinking that you are running an operating system from Redmond WA and not Linux. Here is a Windows 8 cursor … Read more
I have just updated my Fedora 19 installation to the 3.11 kernel. I installed this and removed the fglrx ATI drivers leaving me only with open source Linux drivers and my Linux desktop is just as fast. Having only open-source code on my system makes updating the system easier. I now prefer Fedora as it … Read more
The French Police are switching 72,000 desktop computers from Windows to Linux. This will result in considerable cost savings over the existing Windows computers that would require constant maintenance for anti-malware and virus protection. Linux on the other hand requires less maintenance and is more reliable. Once the user gets the hang of the different … Read more
http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/glacier_national_park_dual_monitor-other.jpg. Glacier National Park dual screen wallpaper. A beautiful wallpaper with lovely lighting. Green lighting road wallpaper image: http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/green_nature_dual_monitor-other.jpg. This is a road wallpaper with shafts of light coming down to the road through the trees. A wallpaper that is rather like the Bliss wallpaper for Windows XP: http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/pure_nature_dual_monitor-other.jpg. This is a pretty green grass … Read more
Get daily builds of the new Ubuntu 13.10 distribution here. Saucy Salamander will be the next and best release of the Ubuntu distribution yet. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/. Daily builds page. 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image. PC AMD-64 image. PC (Intel x86) desktop image. PC i386 (32bit) desktop image. 64-bit Mac (AMD64) desktop image. x86_64 bit desktop image … Read more
This screenshot shows how to remove the desktop icons with the dconf-editor on Linux Mint 15 MATE. Simply open the dconf-editor, which is in System Tools and then untick this value: org -> mate -> desktop -> background -> show-desktop-icons. This will instantly get rid of those pesky icons that cover your awesome desktop wallpaper. … Read more
The Westcliff High School for Girls Academy has switched from Windows on their workstations to the KDE Plasma desktop. This means that they are avoiding the licensing hassles of using Windows and they are adopting a free and open operating system that will provide the students with a desktop environment reminiscent of Windows but with … Read more
The MATE desktop; when used with dual monitors by default only shows the panels on one screen or the other. The solution is to right-click on the panels and opt to add a new panel. Then drag this new panel to the other screen end on to the first panel. This will give you a … Read more
The ATI “unsupported hardware” watermark is a very annoying sight in Linux Mint 15. Here is how to remove it. This tip is for anyone who has installed the ATI drivers by typing sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle. Firstly; download the ATI drivers from the website. http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4-linux-x86.x86_64.zip. Then move the downloaded file into a new … Read more
The Gnome Shell desktop on Linux Mint 15 is a pretty good desktop environment for any Linux user, but after typing sudo apt-get install unity on Linux Mint 15 and trying it out, I actually think that the Unity desktop is the faster of the two. Despite the Macintosh styled interface. The ability to quickly … Read more
TRON Legacy GDM theme: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=117133. This will also work with MDM in Linux Mint 15. TRON Legacy Gnome Shell theme: http://half-left.deviantart.com/art/GNOME-Shell-Tron-Legacy-208220836. This theme is very reminiscent of the theme that the computer uses in the movie. You need to install the User Themes extension to load this theme. TRON Legacy lightcycle wallpaper: http://www.moviedeskback.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Tron-Legacy-Wallpapers-1600×1200-6.jpg. Die Hard … Read more