When we left our lovely new HP sub-notebook, we had just finished configuring Windows 7 Home Premium. Now it is time to move to installing a real operating system on it, and for the sake of variety ...

Installing Linux on a computer, once you know what you’re doing, really isn’t a difficult process. After getting accustomed to the ins and outs of downloading ISO images, creating bootable media, and ...

A couple of weeks ago, Neowin published a tutorial explaining to how to get your foot in the door of the Linux world. While it briefly touched on the post-installation process, the focus was mainly on ...

Happy Linux Mint 16 (xfce petra) user on my laptop. I picked up a broken (well, corruptd XP install) all-in-one Sony Vaio PC and wanted to give Mint a swing on that. The specs are modest, but the boot ...

The final release of Linux Mint 16 (Petra) Cinnamon/MATE came a little over a week ago, and the KDE/Xfce Release Candidates arrived this week. I decided to install all four of them, each on a ...

The beta release for Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" has arrived with several new features and improvements to the popular Linux distribution. It includes the new System Information app and several interface ...

Linux Mint is possibly the most popular derivative of Ubuntu, and each new version of Linux Mint usually comes just a short while after each Ubuntu release. The latest Linux Mint 10 comes just a ...

FreeBSD, the open-source operating system alternative to Linux, just released a new major update. FreeBSD 15 includes overhauled package management, new versions of utilities like OpenZFS and OpenSSL, ...

Don’t like Linux Mint’s Software Manager? Here’s how you can install the Ubuntu Software Center in Linux Mint 12. 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Type in the following code and then hit enter to install ...