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Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to Mint 12

 

At last I decided to upgrade my EEEPC 900! The Ubuntu installation I was still using on it (10.04 LTS Netbook edition) was getting old so, after many live testing, and some “Test Drive” post I settled for installing Linux Mint 12 “Lisa”.

 

Why Mint?

 

If you read my post about Linux Mint test you’ll have certainly noticed that it impressed me quite well. I mostly liked the Mint approach to user interface both open to innovation and respectful of old users. But what eventually led me towards a Gnome3 based distribution has been discovering, thanks mainly to Linux Mint, how this desktop environment can be expanded. I discovered, in fact that Gnome3 can be expanded using Javascript programming. Many extension are being developed and can be downloaded and installed from a Gnome3 page. Plenty of documentation and examples are available. Gnome3 guys didn’t give of flexibility that had been Gnome2 characteristic, they just left it well hidden.

 

Installation

 

I prepared the installation, like usual, by writing a bootable SD card with Ubuntu’s start-up disk tool. I then booted the EEEPC and started the installation program.

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