When we left our lovely new HP sub-notebook, we had just finished configuring Windows 7 Home Premium. Now it is time to move to installing a real operating system on it, and for the sake of variety ...

A couple of weeks ago, Neowin published a tutorial explaining to how to get your foot in the door of the Linux world. While it briefly touched on the post-installation process, the focus was mainly on ...

Linux Mint offers a lot more flexibility and customization than Windows, yet it's still polished and usable out of the box. Operating system updates in Mint are seamless, with no forced updates and ...

The final release of Linux Mint 16 (Petra) Cinnamon/MATE came a little over a week ago, and the KDE/Xfce Release Candidates arrived this week. I decided to install all four of them, each on a ...

Third, I made a Linux Mint 16 XFCE edition live/install USB. Some posts I read indicated this had to be done from a Mac to boot into it correctly, but the one I had lying around that had been prepared ...

The “cheap” and “easy” way in about an hour! A question that pop’s up from time to time is “I somehow ended up with an archaic old laptop / computer, can it run Linux?” Well of course it can, but that ...