Need to install Windows 10 on a machine, but need to put the Windows 10 ISO on a USB stick on nothing but a Linux box? Sure! During the recording…
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Ubuntu, SuSE and Fedora now in the Windows store!
Did you say Linux? In the Windows Store? Like, OMG! Did we just enter some weird hallucination, or parallel universe? Nope! Microsoft have announced that they continue their partnership with Ubuntu/Canonical.…
How to theme your Linux Desktop
Are you tired of the way your desktop looks? Those icons and widgets that once seemed so endearing are now looking a bit shabby or dated? Fear not, here’s a…
How to Mount Windows or Samba Shares Permanently
This howto describes how to mount Windows CIFS (SMB) shares permanently. The shares might be hosted on a Windows computer/server, or on a Linux/UNIX server running Samba. This document also…
How to read and write to Windows NTFS drives as any user
So you have a Windows hard drive using the NTFS partition type. The good news is that most Linux distributions these days can read and write to it automatically without…
What is X, XFree, XOrg or X Windows?
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…