On the Banks of the Raritan
This is my first post since leaving the land of South Africa. Its a weired and wonderful experience to travel long distances. Last year I was fortunate enough to the see the East, the South and the North. Well now …
Author: Vukosi Marivate
Ubuntu is Dead, deal with it!
Here comes one of those long ones again. This post I guess is a special one. One I put up just before I leave the shores of South Africa, to begin another sub-chapter in this big chapter named “Life 3.0”. …
The purpose of hopes and dreams, is there really one?
When Vukosi asked me to write a post for his blog, I said I’d be writing about life. Thinking that it was such a vague topic, I could write about anything 5 minutes before the deadline and title it life. …
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Configuring your new Linux Mint 7
So you have now installed your new Linux Mint 7 as per my guide. Now here comes that old myth that you cant install new programs or its hard to use. Well lets talk about those two points for a …
Linux Mint 7 Install
Yes yes yes, finally you say. Okay the guide is finally here. Installing Ubuntu Linux version 9.04. Okay maybe not Ubuntu in its normal clothes but Linux Mint 7 Gloria. Let the version numbers not confuse you. Linux Mint is a project to build an Ubuntu build that works completely out of the box, so it also includes proprietary (closed source) drivers etc. It is my personal favourite distribution I use it at work and at home. In South Africa especially with bandwidth limitations you want to have something like this. Just works.