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[...] On upgrading from Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 to Ubuntu GNOME 14.04, a few rough edges were to be noticed. One was the display of my chosen background image: [...]

There is a handy comand line utility called GNU Parallel that allows you to run Linux commands on more than one CPU core at a time to perform parallel [...]

The changes made to Nautilus, otherwise known as Files, in GNOME Shell 3.6 were contentious and the response of the Linux Mint was to create their own [...]

[...] With its final release being near at hand, I decided to have a look at the beta release Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 to get a sense of what might be coming. A misstep along the way had me inadvertently [...]

[...] To generate the package list on the GNOME version of Linux Mint, I used the Backup Tool. It simply was a matter of using the Backup Software Selection button [...]

[...] Linux Mint 14 may be out now but I’ll be sticking with its predecessor for now. Being a user of GNOME [...]

Curiosity about the Release Preview of Windows 8 saw me running into bother when trying to see what it’s like in a VirtualBox VM. While doing so [...]

[...] Though my main home PC runs Linux Mint, I do like to have the facility to use Windows software from time to time and virtualisation [...]

[...] Though I use only the command line to do system updates, I still got system restart messages every time a new kernel version was [...]

With a growing collection of photographic images, I often find myself making backups of files using copy commands and the data volumes are such that I [...]

[...] telling it where to put the file that it generates. Alternatively, dpkg can be used from the command line like this: sudo dpkg –get-selections > [...] [...]

One way of doing this is to go to the Nvidia website and download the latest file from the relevant page on there. Then, the next stage is to restart [...]

[...] A whole slew of updates have appear for my Linux Mint Debian Edition PC. However, to instate them, I needed to remove VMware Player and this is the command [...]

To generate the package list on the GNOME version of Linux Mint, I used the Backup Tool. It simply was a matter of using the Backup Software Selection [...]