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Dispelling common Linux myths

July 23, 2013January 3, 2016 Alistair Ross

A lot of people who are either trying out Linux for the first time, or are thinking about using Linux but haven’t yet taken the leap often hear some pretty crazy misconceptions about Linux. Some […]

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What is X, XFree, XOrg or X Windows?

July 23, 2013 Alistair Ross

What X is Not: X is not a product by Microsoft with the letter X before it. X does not affect the way graphical windows on your screen look X won’t let you browse through files in a […]

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Analysing system performance with ‘Top’

July 14, 2013July 23, 2013 Alistair Ross

There are literally hundreds of guides on the Internet detailling how to use the ‘top’ command. A very handy command-line tool that has come with UNIX since back in the dark ages, however not all of these […]

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How to automatically make your Windows drives become available to Linux on startup.

July 14, 2013July 23, 2013 Alistair Ross

Here’s a handy utility that will save you any technical nastiness. It’ll make your Windows drives (partitions) show up in the Ubuntu file manager so you don’t have to mount them by hand each time […]

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Video demonstration: How to get to grips with the GNOME Desktop

February 16, 2009February 16, 2019 Alistair Ross
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Now that you’ve read all about the various different applications you can use every day on your Linux desktop, why not see it in action! The following videos taken from our Articles & Further reading […]

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