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  • Today’s Linux Experience – Choosing a Web Browser [2]

    Last week I wrote about choosing a browser for Linux. Today I put my thoughts into effect and set up Firefox Developer by importing bookmarks from Opera into it and syncing them. However it hasn’t taken long to discover problems with using Firefox for all the stuff I used Opera for. First problem is for…

  • Today’s Linux Experience – Choosing a Web Browser [1]

    When it comes to web browsing, there is surprisingly good support from the big players. My favourite browsers, which are all installed and used simultaneously on Windows, Mint and Lubuntu, are Chrome/Chromium, Firefox and Opera, and all of them work well subject to certain considerations.  With Chrome you can install the proprietary Google package of…

  • How Many Mints?

    In my household I have four computers for various purposes plus another one out the back. I have been thinking a lot about which computers will run which OSs. The main issue is I still need a Windows 7 system for some stuff that is easier to do on a physical computer than by running…

  • Today’s Linux Tip – 21/6/2016

    How to debug a program that is not working properly If you are having trouble with a software application that is not working properly in Linux, start the command from a terminal shell. The shell will receive all the status messages from the application that you don’t see in the GUI shell. You can see…

  • Today’s Linux Experience – Mint Vs Lubuntu

    Today’s Linux Experience is about the differences between Linux Mint and Lubuntu. Linux Mint is a full desktop experience distro intended to look and feel as much like Windows or other full featured GUI operating systems as possible. This is reflected in its resource needs. I have used Linux Mint extensively over the past four…

  • How to install the latest QGIS on Mint/Ubuntu

    Here are how to install stable and unstable versions of Qgis. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following lines: Unstable edition # qgis unstable deb http://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly xenial main deb-src http://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly xenial main deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu xenial main N.B. change xenial to the codename of whatever release of Ubuntu you have installed. Stable or LTR editions Change these…

  • Linux RAID-1 [5]

    Just for future reference I think it is a good idea to write up the steps that are necessary to create a RAID-1 array. This guide is for Linux Mint 17.03 the version of Linux I am running on most of my computers. Refer to the source documents if you wish to create a different…

  • Linux RAID-1 [4]

    So the “new” RAID-1 array finished syncing and it was time to start testing it to see if it would work as planned. Unfortunately this did not prove to be the case. Attempting to mount the new array in /etc/fstab failed on a number of occasions because once again the system would stop dead during…

  • Linux RAID-1 [3]

    So at the end of the last post the system had not been able to startup because of a problem mounting the RAID array and the LiveUSB could not start the system because the Nouveau drivers had problems. As it happens all that is needed is to change some parameters in the LiveUSB Grub bootloader…

  • Linux RAID-1 [2]

    Well I have started on this having left it all week, it is now time to get the main computer set up to make this happen. As noted in my previous posting I am using this guide, although it has a different scenario for relocating /home in mind: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving So making the backups was the…