There were no "Featured Comments" posts the past 2 weeks because I was too busy to either post at all or post anything substantial within the week. Anyway, this week there was one post that got a couple comments, so I will repost all of those.Review: Linux Mint MATE 201204An anonymous reader had this suggestion: "You can often fix dependency errors with 'sudo aptitude dist-upgrade'. I installed the XFCE version. Took some work to get sound to function. Then I discovered the (apparently Debian) repositories didn't contain the PAN Usenet newsreader,...
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
I apologize for the lack of posts over the last couple weeks. Since two and a half weeks ago, I was hit with a steady barrage of homework, exams, UROP-related work, et cetera. Today was the last day of most of the hard stuff (until two weeks from now), so I'm reviewing this now.Main Screen + Linux Mint MenuRecently, the Linux Mint developers released a large set of major updates for users of its Debian-based GNOME edition. This would, among other...
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Desktop Cube + Chromium + Marlin + Gloobus-PreviewA few weeks ago, I wrote a post here about how to replicate my current desktop setup (Linux Mint 9 LTS "Isadora" GNOME) with MATE in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot". The two things I complained about were the malfunctioning Compiz desktop cube effect and the ugly dark panel using the Zukitwo GTK+ theme. Well, I am happy to report that both of those issues are fixed. As before, I did this by using an...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Over a month ago, I had written this, and at the end I promised there would be a more complete, expanded version. Well, although I did get to write it, I never really got around to posting about it here, until now. So I finally converted the LaTeX into HTML using the program LaTeX2HTML and put the HTML code up on my MIT web locker, which you can see now. I hope this is a bit more complete and causes less confusion than my rough draft from befo...
Sunday, 8 April 2012
There was one post that got a few comments, so I will repost all of those. Revisited: Linux Mint (KDE), Chakra, FuduntuReader Andrew Wyatt, who is also the creator of Fuduntu, had this suggestion (which unfortunately did not work) for my Skype issues: "Try going to Preferences > Sound, then selecting the Hardware tab and then set the Profile to "Analog Stereo Duplex". Next, select the Input tab and then Click the radio button for Internal Analog Stereo (you'll probably find that it is not selected). Now set the Mic volume to whatever you...
Friday, 6 April 2012
I had tried out all these distributions again last week (during spring break) and this week, but I didn't think that each of them warranted their own posts (and this is also why there were no posts last week), so I have decided to combine them all into a short summary of my experiences. I'm doing this because I'm seriously trying to figure out what I should start using after Linux Mint 9 LTS "Isadora" GNOME. I tested the 64-bit (because my computer has 64-bit hardware) live USB sessions of all of these using MultiSystem. Follow the jump to see...
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