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  • Great image viewers for Xubuntu

    I just want something that lets me zoom in and out with the mouse wheel, lets me run multiple instances, and is easy to use. Gliv fits the bill for that, and you can easily install it directly with apt. However, it is not currently maintained. GPicView, the default viewer of LXDE, was also evaluated,…

  • More Xubuntu

    As a result of rearranging things in the house and having three computers in one room, I now have three Xubuntu computers in the house and one Windows 8.1 computer. One of those Xubuntu computers is acting as a media player with Kodi. The function of the Windows computer is mostly to do with hardware…

  • Multimedia playback in Linux & remote access

    One of the things people like to do with PCs is to use them as media centres for playback and recording of videos, TV broadcasts and music etc. I haven’t really got into this in a big way other than for playback of my CD and DVD collection. Nevertheless I have used a computer for…

  • Linux RAID-1 [9]: Removing an array

    The last step having set up a new array is to remove the old one from the computer. This is relatively straightforward. Firstly the array has to be unmounted, which is a simple umount command with the path, in this case umount /oldhome. The next thing is to run a mdadm command to remove the…

  • Linux RAID-1 [8]: Setting up the replacement array

    As I mentioned last time I have bought the 2 TB disks so that I can have a RAID-1 array in the main computer that is big enough to hold all of my stuff, meaning the second computer (and by extension, its screens and desk) will be effectively redundant. So here I am essentially repeating…

  • Linux RAID-1 [7]: Recovery and fault-finding

    /dev/md0:        Version : 1.2  Creation Time : Sat Jul  2 04:03:31 2016     Raid Level : raid1     Array Size : 976631360 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB)  Used Dev Size : 976631360 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB)   Raid Devices : 2  Total Devices : 1    Persistence : Superblock is persistent    Update Time…

  • Virtualisation and Qgis

    UPDATE: The below comment does not make a lot of sense as I have since used Virtualbox VMs very extensively to run Qgis and edit maps. Right now I don’t have need to do this, but in the past it has certainly been a major part of the Qgis work that I have done. (Unfortunately…

  • The Linux systemd debacle

    If you are reasonably familiar with the Linux ecosystem you will be aware that there has been a big rift over a process called “systemd”. This particular process, or processes, are concerned with Linux system and session management. The issue has been for many that systemd steps beyond its role of being the “init” process…

  • Enable hibernation in Xubuntu

    Hibernation is a somewhat controversial subject in the Linux desktop community. It is considered to be difficult to implement and to have the potential to cause a lot of problems. I have used hibernation wherever possible on all my Linux desktops but it is not always straightforward. Older hardware may not support it, and even…

  • Installing Chrome on Ubuntu

    What’s interesting about Chrome is the different icons. On Mint computers and Lubuntus the icon has been square, while on Xubuntu we are back to the old round icon. This may be because of the different installation method I have used. In general it is better to use a package supplied with your distro rather…