Tag: Linux

  • Emby Woes trying Linux Mint

    I had decided (on 6-21) to make my pc just a server so thought Linux Mint would be a good move. Honestly I like Linux but it never served me like Windows, and putting up with stuff on windows is better than going without stuff on Linux. As much as that is true, the other…

  • From Win to Ubuntu to Linux Mint

    I installed Ubuntu on an old laptop to fix my Sansa e280 last week.  A couple of days later I changed the distro to Linux Mint KDE 18.2 64bit UEFI. It’s running great on that old HP laptop. On Tuesday of this week I put that same iso on a DVD to dual-boot install Linux…

  • Dual-Booting and Data Reclaiming

    I have a Seagate GoFlex Desktop 3TB drive, I wrote a post about it previously to this one. I was able to get a live Ubuntu DVD going which proved via Testdisk that I did have harvest-able data on it. That just wouldn’t work on my big Desktop computer though. I finally just bit the…

  • Installing RTL8192se in Linux

    I’ve done this more times than I wish I would have had to … based on many reasons, but the basic thing is, I have it down, at least how to do it with a good fresh install of an updated linux system. I use Fedora, have done this in Fedora 12 and Fedora 13.…

  • Fedora 12 working well for me

    I was working in Fedora 12 earlier today and found I had somehow installed a newer kernel … something I was doing last night got me there. I didn’t like having it in my bootmenu … and didn’t want to have a different linux to boot to, I’ve only worked for a day or so…