Installed Linux Mint 17 Mate on an acquaintance Toshiba NB 205 netbook because Windows XP is no longer supported.. Installed ~400MB of updates. Installed Google Chrome which they were using under XP.
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OpenSuse 13.1 AGAIN!
Replace my fallback distro SolydXK with OpenSuse 13.1 AGAIN! Because SolydXK has changed their vision. Doing away with their home edition. Many things I had trouble with in OpenSuse, work better now.
tomb
Installed tomb encryption software. Required ‘zsh’ and ‘pinentry-curses’ in Linux Mint 17. Because of the ‘Truecrypt’ circus, I have been looking at other on-the-fly Linux encryption alternatives. Tried and used ‘Gnome Encfs Manager’ for encfs stashes, a month or 2 ago. It’s advantage is it is grows as needed but the file’s and filenames are …
Kindle Fire HDX
Looked for, found and installed old Kindle Fire HDX file xfer program, GMTP. Plugged in Kindle Fire HDX and Linux Mint 17 recognized it and mounted it as a android device! GMTP [required in Mint 13] not needed.
OpenCOBOL
Found/installed OPENCOBOL. Wrote some simple programs.
Backups
Linux Mint 17 backups take around 20 minutes as opposed to 5-6 min in Linux Mint 13 with GnomeBaker. So I thought I’d simply compile it like I did in Mint 13. However the 1st step, ./configure gave me “configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables”. A compiler can’t create executables? WTH? Short term solution …
Update Pack
Applied 4/15 update pack to my SolydK and Terry’s SolydX. It took maybe 4 hours or more. Because it’s one of the big quarterly updates which updated the Kernel also
Put Linux on Sisters computer
My sister Terry sent down her laptop PC because it was running Windows XP which is no longer supported…support ended 4/6. I wanted to install Linux Mint but the current LTS is just ending and the new isn’t out yet. Wiped off XP after backing up data. Laptop is an older Dell Dimension. So I …
Solydk
Found out when I got the Networking “waiting for authorization” problem in Solydk that I can simply log off then back on to fix the problem rather than reboot. Then reenter the Kwallet password. Much quicker. SolydK seems pretty nice!
SolydK
Replace my fall back Linux Distro [see 11/19/2013] from Suse to solydK 64 bit. SolydK uses Debian as their base. Solydk is their KDE version. It’s a rolling release. It comes with a Steam installer. Comes with all codecs installed. Major updates: Gimp from v2.6 to v2.8 [single window mode] LibreOffice from v3.5 to v4.0 …