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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 [...]

Using a variant of Debian’s Iceweasel that keeps pace with Firefox

February 5, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

Left to its own devices, Debian will leave you with an ever ageing re-branded version of Firefox that was installed at the same time as the rest of the operating system. From what I have found, the main cause of [...]

Adding Quicktime movie support to Firefox running on Linux

January 24, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

For whatever reason, my installation of Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10, didn’t have Quicktime support added to Firefox by default. To make a website work near enough as it was intended, this needed to be remedied. The solution was to issue [...]

A new repository for GNOME 3 Extensions

December 6, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

Not before time, the GNOME project has set up a central website for GNOME Shell extensions. It seems to be in the hands of extension developers to make GNOME 3 more palatable to those who find it not to their [...]

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 [...]

Moving from Ubuntu 10.10 to Linux Mint 10

April 23, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

With a long Easter weekend available to me and with thoughts of forthcoming changes in the world of Ubuntu, I got to wondering about the merits of moving my main home PC to Linux Mint instead. Though there is a [...]