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Restore Synaptic Mark All Upgrades Button in Linux Mint

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UPDATE: This technique no longer works on Linux Mint 17 Qiana. Please see Enable Synaptic Mark All Upgrades Button in Linux Mint 17 for the latest technique.

I recently reviewed Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon Edition and one reader pointed out in the comments that the Mint team removes functionality from the Synaptic Package Manager. Specifically, the Mark All Upgrades button is missing from the tool bar and the menu selection is also missing from the Edit menu. After doing a little bit of research, I was able to figure out how to undo the changes made to Synaptic by the Linux Mint team. In the following tutorial I’ll show how to restore the Synaptic Mark All Upgrades button in Linux Mint. Continue reading →

My Pogoplug

How to Mount Your Pogoplug on Linux Automatically

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I recently received a Pogoplug as a birthday gift. If you’re not familiar with the Pogoplug, it is a small Linux based plug computer that allows you to share personal files over the web. You can think of it as your own personal cloud storage server. While you can always access your Pogoplug files through the web interface, it’s nice to have local access to the files straight from your file manager. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to mount the Pogoplug on Linux and how to get it to mount automatically when your computer boots. Continue reading →

Linux Mint 15 Review

Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon: Ready For Prime Time

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Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Linux 13.04. Mint is intended to be easy to install and easy to use for desktop users who prefer a traditional desktop layout. It is available in for both 32 bit and 64 bit Intel architectures. It’s also available with two different desktops; the MATE desktop which is a fork of the GNOME 2 series, and the Cinnamon desktop which is based on GNOME 3 and is a fork of GNOME shell to give it a more traditional desktop layout. For this review I’m running the 64 bit Cinnamon edition on my desktop PC with an Intel Core i5 2500k CPU. Continue reading →

Mint 15 Desktop

Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” Released!

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Linux Mint 15 Released

Many people have been wondering what the official release date for Linux Mint 15 will be. The Mint team is known for not providing a firm release calendar. It’s been about a week and a half since the Release Candidate for Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” was released and I’ve noticed that a few people have posted on Google+ that Linux Mint 15 has been released.
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Reset GRUB Default System After OS Installation

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From time to time I like to test out a new Linux distribution or just an updated version of my current distribution. I’ve created extra partitions on my hard drive for these test installations. All of the distributions I’ve tried so far require a boot loader to be installed to the hard drive as part of the process. This creates the minor problem of the test installation taking over the boot process. I prefer to have my main Linux installation handle the booting process. The following steps will show how to hand boot control back to your main Linux installation with the GRUB 2 boot loader. Continue reading →