Windows 11 takes a bit of time to get used to. I am running this now instead of Windows 8.1 and this is quite strange. The context menu used for working with files has icons on the top for copy paste and other basic functions. This is very strange, but…
Read MoreTips for installing Arch Linux and getting started I have just installed Arch Linux 2021 and it is far faster to load than Ubuntu with the bloated codebase it has. After installation, I had an issue with the networking, but I installed Network Manager and this was a good way…
Read MoreThe FVWM window manager is a light alternative to the bloated default Ubuntu desktop. This is a window manager like TWM, but with more features. Download a copy and get more information here: http://fvwm.org/. TWM is the default window manager that ships with the Xorg distribution. This is a very…
Read MoreThere is a very nice new Linux distribution that comes with a huge amount of software. It is called PsychOS, this is intended for older machines. The kernel is compiled for a 686 CPU architecture instead of x86_64, but it would be perfect to bring an old Pentium 4 back…
Read MoreThere is a very nice Linux distribution available. This is called Venom Linux. This is very fast to boot after installation. In my VMWare instance, it booted in a couple of seconds after pressing enter at the boot screen. This is a live CD distribution with MATE, XFce 4, Lxde…
Read MoreNew Gentoo based Linux distribution There is a new Gentoo based Linux distribution. This is called Clover OS. It comes with a basic TWM desktop window manager and is very fast to boot. No SystemD bloat. The Live CD will load a default TWM desktop. But there are options after…
Read MoreThe fast boot feature of Windows 8.1 allows a user to load Windows faster than ever before; but this can interfere with the mounting of the Windows partition from Linux. This forces the user to mount the partition read-only. But if you use this command in a command prompt on…
Read MoreThis is the new Voyager Linux distribution; this is based on Ubuntu 12.10 and includes quite a few extra packages and addons to give far more eye candy than the default Unity desktop. This distribution uses the Xfce4 desktop and is well worth installing if you want some nice eye…
Read MoreThe Debian distribution I am using is working very well compared to the Ubuntu and Linux Mint distributions that I was using before. I have installed a 3.3 kernel with the Debian kernel packaging commands and built a kernel tarball and a headers tarball that I was then able to…
Read MoreI have just installed Ubuntu10.10 alongside Fedora Core 15 and I am amazed at how fast the Gnome 2.32.0 desktop is compared to Gnome 3 and KDE 4.6. I had to install 370 MiB of updates with the sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade command. This downloads the latest…
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