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A little look at Debian 7.0

May 12, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

Having a virtual machine with Debian 6 on there, I was interested to hear that Debian 7.0 is out. In another VM, I decided to give it a go. Installing it on there using the Net Install CD image took [...]

Changing to web fonts

February 12, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

While you can add Windows fonts to Linux installations, I have found that their display can be flaky to say the least. Linux Mint and Ubuntu display them as sharp as I’d like but I have struggled to get the [...]

Widely differing approaches

January 28, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

The computer on which I am writing these words is running Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment, a fork of GNOME Shell. This looks as if it is going to be the default face of GNOME 3 in the [...]

A few thoughts on Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1

January 22, 2012 1 Response Shortlink

After an aborted installation in VirtualBox using the direct installation, I got a VM instance of Ubuntu 12.04 in place by installing from a loaded Live CD session. That proceeded without any trouble and downloaded the required updates too. First [...]

A little look at Windows 8

November 6, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

It has been a little while but I have managed to set up a VirtualBox virtual machine in order to take a look at the Developer Preview of the next version of Windows, something that I and others continue to [...]

All Change?

September 19, 2011 1 Response Shortlink

Could 2011 be remembered as the year when the desktop computing interface got a major overhaul? One part of this, Windows 8, won’t be with us until next year but there has been enough happening so far this year that [...]