EDIT: No point in writing a whole new post about Linux Mint, since none of you are likely to try using it eh? So I am just going to edit this one.
I have been testing out Linux Mint version 7 or "Gloria", on my laptop for a little over a week now, seeing for myself what it is all about, and here are my thoughts:
1. Mint would be great for Linux virgins. I would have enjoyed Mint more if I were new to Linux, but most of the credit goes to Ubuntu, which Mint is based on, for getting better since I started using it too.
2. The "big thing" about Mint is that it comes installed with propriety media codecs -- without which you get shitty little messages that say "cannot play file type". Ubuntu tries to stay 100% "open-source" so little bits that belong to some company somewhere don't come pre-installed, you gotta get them yourself. The guy who made Mint said, "Fuck it" and put them all in there so you don't have to get them yourself. Again, good for a new-comer to Linux, no big deal for a veteran.
3. Unfortunately for me, I installed Mint thinking I was going to "explore" a DIFFERENT kind of Linux from Ubuntu (Whoops!) but it is basically an Ubuntu that someone worked hard to make better in some ways. I think that it would have been better for everyone if the guy simply made Mint
applications and
packagesavailable in Ubuntu instead of promoting Mint as something "different" than Ubuntu. In Ubuntu, my suggestion would be the equivalent of "adding a repository" and maybe creating another desktop manager called "Mint".
4. Mint in Japanese. The day after I installed Mint, I switched over to the Japanese version. Unfortunately, when you switch to Japanese, more than half of the menu headings are in English. Some prompts are in Japanese and some are in English. Open Office switches completely over to Japanese, but to
get a Japanese Firefox is a pain in the ass, even for an experienced Linux brute like yours truly. But I got it now.
5. I REALLY like the automatic update manager in Mint. It actually does rock quite a bit. I wrote about this before, but updates in Mint are rated with a "Tested-safe" to "Tested dangerous" ranking system, and you can choose whether you want to even see the "not-tested, but we are pretty sure it is safe" category. Something that I despise about the Automatic Updates in Ubuntu is that we have to UNtick all the updates we don't want, and that can be 200 or so at times.
6. I don't like Mint's desktop manager -- the part of your desktop and folders that you SEE. It is supposed to be Gnome, yet uses a KDE-esque/Windows Start menu rip-off. Part of what I like about Ubuntu is that it uses pull-down menus that make sense. Perhaps a Mac rip-off, but I like it.
7. I DO like that the Synaptic Package Manager (the thing you use to fetch all your programs) is just "Right there" in the Start Men... in the menu. If you do not use Linux, in Ubuntu and Mint both, you don't install programs via VCDs, the programs are all free and ready to install IN the thing.
Summary: If you are new to Linux, but want a good, safe system that you will like once you get the hang of it, try either Mint or Ubuntu. Personally I am already bored of Mint because it is not different enough from Ubuntu.
"Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight!" I have no idea why this shit comes into my mind. Guess that when the mind is like a sieve, random shit just comes in. I am running on vapors now...
You probably already read that this 1948 painting by Rene Magritte was stolen. "Olympia" is a painting of he late artist's wife, and was taken in broad daylight by two men, at least one of which was armed with a gun of some sort. And that is about where the clarity of the story ends. The big mystery is what it is worth. The BBC says it is worth £675,000 (about $1.07m) and was taken by two men, one of who was armed. The NY Times quotes the Guardian as saying the painting is worth about $1.1m and that both of the men were armed. But I just read the Guardian and they say it is worth £2.75m, or $4.4m! (That's €3m if you give a flying squirrel). The Guardian does agree that it was stolen by two armed men.
Hi there! I was just looking at Google Analytics today. Fun tool it is! I see that people visit our site from the US, Japan and the UK, but that makes sense because we have friends in all of these countries. But Brazil? France? Germany? Who are you guys? What do you do? Did you come here to read about motorcycles? watches? Rammstein? Or on a jaunt from Googling the words "Japan+bastard"? What? We are interested! Say hi and make friends!
Lately we were talking about the page loading slowly, or even crashing on visitors to our site because of the amount of video links we post here. This especially affects computers with 500Mb of RAM or less. We don't want to scare people away from the website, but don't want to stifle our urge to share either.MywCGk~%24(KGrHqYH-CYEqvVTW8W3BKs)mzQco!~~_3.jpg)
Oh my fucking god!!!! RAMMSTEIN HAST ZURÜCKGEKEHRT!
Breakfast. Time for COFFEE! No, this isn't going to be an educational post, like many, this is about my idiosyncratic nature. (Interesting how the 3rd definition of the word idiosyncrasy is: An unusual individual reaction to food or a drug.
So anyway, yesterday I drank just jihankohi in the morning, and Nami brought me one at night when she came home, and it felt like a long time in between. That last coffee was sooo good... but gone... and by that time the shutter on the house was closed. You don't have a shutter that closes over your front door at night -- most people don't -- but you can imagine the mentality of the thing: it takes a minute or so to close. It isn't instant like a regular door. So ya think, "I had better have a good reason to open this". And so it remains closed until morning. It all comes down to this: From the time dinner was over at 7:30, until 12:30 when I finally wore myself out, I WANTED THIS COFFEE. Amazing.
Recently a couple of guys -- of what, 5 or 6 who look at this blog? -- were saying that they could not access this blog or my own because the page crashes as soon as it begins to load. YouTube links are clearly to blame, and at least half of them are mine. Two of our visitors have less than 500Mb of RAM (no, really) and a third is in Laos now where the network is still being run by an ox turning a big crank that powers the gigabyte of RAM that the entire country shares or something like that.
Ubuntu SE? Oh fuck. Come ON??! I felt I had to rewrite my earlier post about Ubuntu Christian Edition, because I found out that there were other religious Ubuntu editions, including Buddhabuntu, an Islamic Ubuntu called "Sabily", and a Ubuntu Satanic Edition. All of them can go to Hell. My major complaint is that their should be no special editions of Ubuntu for religious groups, but at least one had the courtesy to change from Ubuntu Muslim Edition to "Sabily". (Maybe they were asked to?) These special editions make me think that it must be relatively easy to take a Ubuntu and slap some extra crap onto it and call it a "new operating system".
Just a quick note here to let you know that I added another album to the family version of my Picasa web album page. There are 99 pics of us at 3 different parks that we have recently discovered.
Well I did it. I wrangelled a scooter into my pen. He didn't put up much of a fight and we will name him "Sunny".
Tis got a windshield and a trunk and storage under the seat...nice....
5. I REALLY like the automatic update manager in Mint. It actually does rock quite a bit. I wrote about this before, but updates in Mint are rated with a "Tested-safe" to "Tested dangerous" ranking system, and you can choose whether you want to even see the "not-tested, but we are pretty sure it is safe" category. Something that I despise about the Automatic Updates in Ubuntu is that we have to UNtick all the updates we don't want, and that can be 200 or so at times.7%2BBKmd7F(Wow~~_12.jpg)
A bike "Honda 1973 CT 90 enduro" local on ebay,.... I may buy!
A pretty cool trailer for sure....goes well on this BMW!
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