TECH

My stories and experiments with technology. I've been a full on computer geek since 1984 and it's never left me.

Breaking The Rules With Booting

With my new find about booting from USB, I imaged my titanium USB stick with Lubuntu and hoped for the best. You have to be a little careful with…

How do you get a 14 year old computer to boot into an operating system installer when it’ll only boot from Firewire or CD and your optical drive d…

So why didn’t the external drive boot up? It was a Firewire interface, it was partitioned with APM and the software on there should have booted, b…

With the Linux version decided upon, it would now need to be installed on the iBook. These Ubuntu based distros are designed to be burned to a CD…

With the distros installed as virtual machines on my Mac mini, it was easy to test them and get a feel for them. Certainly, Mint felt the most polis…

Lubuntu is the third distro I tried. Lubuntu (/lʊˈbʊntuː/ loo-buun-too) is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu but using the LXDE d…

Following up from Mint was MATE. Ubuntu MATE is essentially Ubuntu but replacing the Unity graphical interface with an environment called MATE (pro…

Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu that strives to be a “modern, elegant and comfortable operating sys…