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On Upgrading to Linux Mint 11

On Upgrading to Linux Mint 11

May 31, 2011 1 Response Shortlink

For a Linux distribution that focuses on user friendliness, it does surprise me that Linux Mint offers no seamless upgrade path. In fact, the underlying philosophy is that upgrading an operating system is a risky business. However, I have been [...]

Restoring the MBR for Windows 7

November 25, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

During my explorations of dual-booting of Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10, I ended up restoring the master boot record (MBR) so that Windows 7 could load again or to find out if it wouldn’t start for me. The first hint [...]

Manually adding an entry for Windows 7 to an Ubuntu GRUB2 menu

November 21, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

A recent endeavour of mine has been to set up a dual-booting arrangement on my Toshiba Equium laptop with Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 on there side by side. However, unlike the same attempt with my Asus Eee PC where [...]

A look at Slackware 13.0

June 5, 2010 2 Responses Shortlink

Some curiosity has come upon me and I have been giving a few Linux distros a spin in fVirtualBox virtual machines. One was Slackware and I recall a fellow university student using it in the mid/late 1990′s. Since then, my [...]

Rough?

November 11, 2009 4 Responses Shortlink

Was it because Canonical and friends kept Ubuntu in such a decent state from 8.04 through to 9.04 that things went a little quiet in the blogosphere on the subject of the well-known Linux distribution? If so, 9.10 might be proving more [...]

GParted running on Ubuntu

Adding a new hard drive to Ubuntu

January 19, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

This is a subject that I thought that I had discussed on this blog before but I can’t seem to find any reference to it now. I have discussed the subject of adding hard drives to Windows machines a while [...]