Linux

Exploring Mint with Virtualbox on macOS

Beren Erchamion
May 21, 2017

Exploring Mint with Virtualbox on macOS is important because my son and I will be traveling to Benin in West Africa later this year with the codetohope project. We’ll be teaching computer fundamentals and programming basics in a variety of…

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Linux

Jumping on Ubuntu 12.10

Beren Erchamion
August 25, 2012

Ok the whole version number thing is still messing me up…but I grabbed the latest beta on Ubuntu after my less than thrilling experience with Fedora 17 and Slackware-who-the-heck-cares-what-version-it-was. I wrote 10.04 on the DVD I burned, but I’m pretty…

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Linux

Fedora 17 vs. Slackware 13.37

Beren Erchamion
August 19, 2012

Ah – yes once again its time for by bi-annual review of linux distro’s. Why? I don’t know – but why not? Last time I looked at Fedora 16, Mint, and a few other distros. F-16 got pretty beat up…

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Linux

Fedora 16 – Impressive –> Finally Linux Comes of Age

Beren Erchamion
December 18, 2011

I’ve messed around with Linux distros for years wondering when I would finally get something that was truly a consumer oriented and simple OS to install and use. I think it finally happened! I was messing with some translation files…

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Virtual Box 4, Windows 7, and Fedora 14

Beren Erchamion
December 26, 2010

I got my new laptop with Windows 7-64 on it the other day. One thing I wanted to do on my previous machine, but just couldn’t due to lack of memory and CPU was to use a bunch of virtual…

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How’s Fedora 13? Linux in its prime?

Beren Erchamion
July 30, 2010

Every once in a while I just feel compelled to try out a new/updated distro and see how things are going with Linux. If you read my previous reviews on Linux you’ll know I’m partial to Fedora and Ubuntu. Well…

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