Linux and Life

[...] Last year, I installed and wrote a review for Linux Mint 13 Maya, the MATE version. It had worked really well on my laptop so even when Linux Mint 14 & [...]

[...] I have installed Linux Mint 15 MATE on my desktop for a few weeks and in my opinion, this release is nearly perfect so I [...]

[...] I never liked the login sound of Linux Mint so I disabled it immediately after installing Linux Mint 15. If you want to do the same, here is how: In both version of Linux Mint 15, to disable or [...]

[...] launchers, just arrange these launchers in whatever order you prefer then right click on the Mint Menu and select Reload plugins to restart the Mint Menu. After that, the Mint Menu will show the [...]

[...] keyboard in Linux Mint MATE:  And after you got it installed, just search for it in the Mint Menu and you can launch the virtual keyboard to use: Note: hen you first launched it, it will appear [...]

[...] Handcent SMS Handcent SMS is an awesome app to replace the default messaging widget of your Android phone. Handcent SMS gives you a lot of options for customization like changing the themes, [...]

[...] . All we need is just a simple app to turn your phone into an alarm clock. Although every Android phone always comes with a default alarm clock app, there are many other options for you to choose. [...]

[...] , you will choose a character for your phone ( either a girl or a guy) and when you put your Android phone near another NFC-enabled Android phone, the two phones can have sex with each other. And you [...]

[...] The weather widget is one of the most frequently checked apps in my Android phone since I always look for nice days to go biking and fishing. I've tried a lot of weather [...]

[...] with Fuduntu 2013.2. Fuduntu review - Look and feel Comparing to the 2012 version, the default desktop of this version of Fuduntu is quite the same. It is still the traditional Gnome 2 desktop. [...]

[...] looked quite dark and the panel was at the top of the screen. Now things are different, the default desktop is bright with the panel ( or dock) at the bottom of the screen. You will love Linux Deepin [...]

[...] ". After that, the dock will appear and it will be there in the next boot up. One the default desktop of Emmabuntus, you got a panel on top and Cairo Dock at the bottom. On the top panel there [...]

[...] From the gnome menu in Fuduntu 2013.2, if you go to Applications > System Tools, you will see 2 options to [...]

[...] feature is enabled by default. Here are 2 methods you can use to disable it: Method 1 On the Gnome menu, go to System > Preferences, scroll down the Preferences list and you will see the [...]

[...] included by default. At the top of the desktop is a gnome panel with some basic applets, the gnome menu on the left and the notification and calendar applets on the right. At the bottom is Cairo Dock. [...]

[...] search bar. These search engines are there so whenever someone uses these search engines, the Linux Mint team will receive a little amount of money from these search engines. So using DuckDuckGo and [...]

[...] default search engines. You can change them to Google search easily but that will hurt the Linux Mint team a little bit since every time you use these search engines, the Linux Mint team will earn a [...]

[...] .And sadly, they do not have enough time and manpower. Fuduntu was created back in 2010 as a Linux distro based on Fedora but then it was forked afterward. And more recently, with the new releases, [...]

[...] Most screenshots of the login screen in the Linux distro reviews on the internet were taken from virtual machine. However, you can easily take the [...]

[...] Most Linux distros provide a package manager. Debian and its derivatives use apt-get, Arch Linux uses pacman and [...]

[...] since it is the terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment and there are a lot of Linux distros using Gnome. The big names are Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora ... The Gnome terminal has all the basic [...]

[...] its hardware support and lack of open-source drivers, Nvidia has started to care more about the Linux users. Most recently, the GPU manufacturer has open-sourced its 3D Tegra driver code. A series of [...]

[...] two types of Unix commands, internal and external. This concept may be new to new Unix and Linux users, but knowing this will help you write better scripts. Here are how internal and external [...]

[...] "somewhere between Fedora and Ubuntu". Fuduntu has been loved and praised by a lot of Linux users, including me, for being one of the few distros left still using Gnome 2. Other great things [...]