tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655831292737118435.post4119509956746100270..comments2013-01-27T15:54:39.714-08:00Comments on A Mac User Does Linux: Installing the OSJay Maynardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17225059135487539410noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655831292737118435.post-12090486293863785542013-01-27T15:54:39.714-08:002013-01-27T15:54:39.714-08:00following up....
It turns out that Mint 13 wasn&#...following up....<br /><br />It turns out that Mint 13 wasn't able to (natively) display my .H264 video files either, so I just gave up and went back to CentOS 6.3. That way, I got back to (essentially) the exact environment I had prior to 16:00 EDT Friday - modulo the loss of 50 hours of computer availability.<br /><br />Grrrrrrr..............................John D. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13360180149381278168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655831292737118435.post-17605163831117855842013-01-27T10:57:36.340-08:002013-01-27T10:57:36.340-08:00Jay - a late comment....
This past Friday late af...Jay - a late comment....<br /><br />This past Friday late afternoon, due to a *single letter* typo, I managed to wipe out the partition table and boot partition of my Linux (CentOS 6) laptop. Surgery was unsuccessful in getting it back to being bootable (although I was able to save all my /home, /opt and /usr/local, which is what I really cared about).<br /><br />So I took another disk I had handy, and following your advice, downloaded and installed Mint 13. The over-riding problem I had was that the installer didn't know anything about the logical volume manager. I even took my CentOS live DVD and pre-partitioned and volume managed the hard disk. Fortunately, I had left about 10Gbytes at the back end of the disk blank; I had intended to put an emergency alternate boot environment there. Instead, that's where I installed my OS, booted onto that, downloaded and installed LVM, and am now in the process of trying to get everything transitioned onto the logical volumes.<br /><br />So far, I'm not impressed.<br />John D. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13360180149381278168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655831292737118435.post-89692089500595347632012-10-10T22:08:11.751-07:002012-10-10T22:08:11.751-07:00I was a bit surprised by that, myself, as I've...I was a bit surprised by that, myself, as I've been running Xubuntu on various systems here for some time now. I've gotten used to it, though I do miss PCLinuxOS which I hope to go back to when the/a 64 bit version is finally released - hopefully with the 32 bit libraries available that Firestorm currently demands. Xubuntu is nice, but it keeps feeling like some ease of use/control is missing that I had with PCLOS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655831292737118435.post-67899716088362246332012-10-10T11:22:40.367-07:002012-10-10T11:22:40.367-07:00Hmmm. I might have expected you would have chosen...Hmmm. I might have expected you would have chosen Ubuntu. While the Unity interface is pretty awful on my desktop, I just don't use it there (I use Cinammon, which is essentially the Linux Mint interface. I do like the Unity interface on my netbook's much smaller screen though, as it has a number of places where it can save screen real estate.<br /><br />Mint is a fine choice though, and might even be what I would use, if I didn't also need Ubuntu for work reasons.<br /><br />Keep up the series. It's very interesting to see this perspective.Kevin Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03013155163736662271noreply@blogger.com