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The Laptop Renovation Project: Decisions, Conclusions and Lessons Learned
As some of you may know, a few weeks ago I posted about my efforts to revive aging laptop hardware. While there is still a bit of work to be done, the bulk of the project is complete, and the rest is...
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Up Close and Personal with LXDE
Regular visitors to this site will know that Fluxbox is Trent’s and Patrick’s preferred window manager. I, too, am impressed with its speed and customizability, and its low overhead. Fluxbox’s biggest...
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Linux Mint 8 LXDE CE Review: LXDE Done Right
Trent and I were both looking forward to the release of the Linux Mint LXDE Community Edition for various reasons. Luckily for us, Kendall (maintainer of the Linux Mint Fluxbox CE) pointed us to the...
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Anatomy of a .desktop File
One of the beautiful things about Linux is that developers tend to be conscientious about the use of technical standards. Freedesktop.org maintains a wide series of standards for X Window System...
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An Eye-Opening Experience
Most of us who are familiar with Linux are familiar with the advantages of running Linux as a desktop OS. We frequently bemoan the fact that others don’t know what we do about the reality of Linux on...
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Peppermint OS: a review
What do you get when you combine the flexibility, versatility and ease of maintenance of Ubuntu, the blinding speed and simplicity of LXDE, and a focus on social media and the cloud? You get Peppermint...
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Peppermint: Ask and they deliver
Wow, got a lot of traffic on the review I posted Monday about the new Peppermint OS! I wanted to post a quick update to that review, because things move fast in the new Linux distro world, and the...
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How to make Peppermint OS even faster with Openbox
A few weeks ago I posted a very early review of the new web-friendly Peppermint OS. In that review, I lauded the Peppermint team for achieving what I think might be the fastest graphical Linux distro...
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Linux Mint 9 LXDE: A Quick Glance
Breaking with past tradition, the Linux Mint folks have done away with “Community Editions”, instead bringing the non-Gnome flavors of Mint fully under the Mint umbrella. Linux Mint 9 LXDE is now in...
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Peppermint Two: Faster, slicker, and easier than ever
It’s been a little over a year since I reviewed the first Peppermint OS, and while I liked the first effort on this new project, I’ve been really looking forward to Peppermint Two. Well, my wait was...
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Resurrecting an old laptop
Just so you know, this isn’t a review. It’s just a discussion on what I did to make some old hardware useful again. I’ve made mention from time to time the Toshiba Satellite A75 that I have that has...
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Change screen brightness in LXDE
I decided to play around with LXDE on a cheap laptop I bought in an employee auction recently (on which I’m running Linux Mint Debian Edition). Everything works great – I forgot how fast and...
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