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Xubuntu Linux version 24.04 is out Version 24.04 of Xubuntu Linux is now out! Xubuntu Linux has been a staple of the Computer Recycling Project @ The Working Centre since 2010. With the project switching mostly to Linux, it’s now more important than ever that we’re up to date on trends, and new developments that affect the project. This new version of Xubuntu has a number of nice improvements, but…
Debian package over flatpak, but get it from Steam Moving from Xubuntu to Linux Mint XFCE was not as seemless as I’d hoped it would be. The last time I gave Linux Mint serious consideration was over 13 years ago when the Computer Recycling Project at The Working Centre was looking for a replacement for Ubuntu 10.04 (the next version would include the Unity desktop which wouldn’t run on a…
Switching from Xubuntu to Linux Mint After 13 years of running Xubuntu on most of my hardware, I’ve now switched my main (desktop) workstation to Linux Mint XFCE 21.3 (codename: Virginia). I want to be clear, there is (almost) nothing wrong with Xubuntu 22.04, it’s a great distribution of Linux! Xubuntu has been the distribution of choice for The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project for a long time, and the…
Mixed drives of similar size worked In my last post I mentioned the concern that I might not be able to mix drive types. The NAS is currently running 2 x 3TB Seagate Constellation drives, 1 x 3TB Seagate Barracuda drive, and 1 x 3TB Western Digital Red Drive. So far, so good. I realize I’m taking a risk here, especially with the Barracuda drive, which really isn’t made for…
Migrating the KODI entertainment system On May 5th I mentioned that we’re Running out of space on our media center. In the comments of that post I followed up outlining a plan to buy another 8TB drive (for a total of 3 x 8TB drives) in order to do a RAID Z1 (for 16TB of space). But in order to do that I would need to reformat the drives, which…
Another classic game, Paradroid, has a version for (X)ubuntu Growing up in the Commodore 64 era, I’m particularly fond of the games of that age. Games in that era tended to be simpler, but sometimes within that simplicity were some really neat concepts. Paradroid was one of those games that was particularly unique and interesting. There’s a really good look-back at Paradroid on the LemonTube64 Youtube channel here: Freedroid “classic”…
Prince of Persia was a classic DOS game When I first ran Prince of Persia on PC-DOS I remember thinking, “finally, a DOS game that rivals the fun I had on Commodore 64 games.” I was never very good at the game (and that continues today), but it’s a classic game. The original DOS version has a port for Linux which you can find on github here: https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP?tab=readme-ov-file The simplest…
On systemd-based distributions it’s possible to boot to the BIOS from Linux Have you ever found yourself working on a computer that’s just so blindingly fast that you just cannot mash the key you need to get into the BIOS fast enough? It might be possible to reboot from your Linux system into the BIOS of your computer. Not all systems support this feature. On the one system we tested…
You’ve installed Xubuntu 22.04 on your laptop and things are going smoothly… Then you close the lid on your laptop and discover when you open it back up again that when you move the mouse it moves, but you cannot right or left click for some reason? The work around we found that appears to fix this is to edit the file: In this file there’s a line that says:…
Our media center configuration Tucked inside a Corsair Spec-01 case, alongside one of the walls in our living room, is the hardware for our media center. The hardware inside the case is as follows: I recently “upgraded” our media center from an i7-2600-based CPU, which is older, but used DDR3 RAM, of which we had plenty (DDR4 on the other hand)… 4GB is enough as we just run Xubuntu Linux…