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My name is Massimo, I live in Italy but my heart resides in the Philippines since 1997.
I.ph free blogging service is about to shut down, they tought of locking blogs for new posts so I can't even properly inform you with a new post. I reserved the musante.i.ph domain to DotPH until when (if) that service will be activated my new blog will be here:
I promised myself to give a try to Linux Mint many times (and tweeted this intention a couple of times too) but I ever postponed this post until now. My personal dissatisfaction about new (Unity and Gnome3) user interfaces and some good reviews I read on the ‘net triggered in me the decision to download Linux Mint 12 (RC) and place it on a SD memory card for a live test on the EEEPC.
I so downloaded the 1GB DVD image, using torrent, from Mint download page and prepared a bootable SD card with the tool provided in Ubuntu. I had no problems doing so, I suppose because Mint is a Ubuntu-derived distribution.
MGSE: the Mint way to the desktop
What makes Mint different from other distributions is that, in spite using Gnome 3, it welcomes the user with the familiar desktop interface we all were working with until less than a year ago.
It seems just yesterday when I started writing my first post, but three years already passed and I’m just now entering in my fourth year of blogging. Thanks everybody for coming and reading! I’ll never be tired repeating this: I’m only sharing the things I do, It’s konwing they are useful to somebody what make the difference. Thanks again and see you for the first year-4 post!
I decided, at last, what to do with that old HP Omnibook I recently got. I’m going to stuff it with educational software, I have a nephew or two who are of the right age to learn while having some fun even with a such old computer.
Edupup
I had Puppy Linux already installed on the Omnibook but, since I had found a education-tailored distribution on this Italian LUG page, I decided to install it over the (still unused) previous installation. The distribution is a bit old, last update is in 2010, but is not a vital detail since my computer is far more old than the distribution. Speaking of specialized versus general purpose distributions I often prefer to start with a general purpose one then install the software I need. In this case I instead I decided for installing a specialized one since I’m not fully used to Puppy installation mechanism and having a distribution with some software already installed could save me some time.
Installation
Puppy Linux installation is simple but sometime it might result tricky. My thirst Installation tentative concluded without error messages but it refused to start in any way (even by booting from Edupup CD) I suppose that it was because the previous Puppy installation on the same disk that the installation wizard did not clear. I formatted the disk and then repeated the installation, everything went eventually fine.
