( It would mean the world if you would consider following @colhountech on twitter. It won’t cost you anything but it gives me great encouragement to continue writing these posts) This had me for a couple of minutes and a google search did not give me the answer, so I’m dropping it here. I can …
Some lessons about running a X11 Desktop Environment on WSL. What I’m using today: Windows 10 Professional WSL 1.0 – about to switch to fast ring to get WSL-2 Pengwin Linux Distro – From Microsoft App Store X410 X11 Display Server running on Windows 10 Once Pengwin and X410 were installed, I needed to install …
Mac OS X Sierra 10.12.5 already has an old version of emacs installed to /usr/bin/emacs and it can’t be removed. You used to be able to rename the files from emacs to emacs22, so that when you install another version they wouldn’t conflict. Good in theory, but in El Captain and newer, Apple have changes the security on the file …
Here are the slides from my talk “A Linux Enthusiast’s Perspective on Microsoft OSS & Azure” that I presented at the Belfast Linux Users Group on the 1st September 2016.
So, I’m grateful and slightly in awe that I have just started blogging again, and a few articles already seem to be popular. Thanks folks. So, a few people have followed my guidance on setting up RDP to access Linux, because, let’s face it.. RDP rocks!. However I didn’t mention in the previous article how to …
was looking for a really light [Ubuntu] Linux (http://www.ubuntu.com/) desktop with two requirements: it must have a small footprint I must be able to RDP to the box from Microsoft Remote Desktop (RDP) My main requirement is that it should work on a Basic_A0 sized Azure VM instance ((0.25 cores, 0.75 GB memory), so that it’s doesn’t …
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I brought an old netbook back to life by installing Linux Mint on it. I had a problem with the networking though: the Broadcom BCM4312 802.11/bg didn’t get recognised. A quick search on linuxwireless.org and found out that: b43 and b43legacy are drivers for the 802.11 B/G/N family of wireless chips thatBroadcom produces. The choice of which driver your card uses depends on the revision level of …
