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Linux Mint 5 - Carbon
Comments(0)As you can see it looks far more professional (shall I say boring?) than the theme we’re currently using. It’s all grey and squary looking but it has too huge advantages:
- It looks pro.
- A lot of space is gained on the screen (the widgets take much less and that leaves more space for content). In particular the difference is impressive in mintMenu and in Firefox.
Though it is all grey and square looking, I quite fancy it. I have always preferred the clean professional look myself. With the nice crisp clean corners, it is very easy on the eyes. Then you add that look to a the best distro available and you have something to brag about.
eeePC webcam w/ UCView on Linux Mint
Filed under: Asus Eee, Linux, Linux Mint | Tags: asus, eeepc, Linux Mint
Comments(1) It was very simple to get the webcam working. If anyone knows a better way, please respond.
- Go here to find details on adding the repository. You can should use the Ubuntu 7.10 repository and add it in the Package Manager in Mint.
- At the bottom of the same page, make sure to save the GPG public key. Remember where you saved the public key to.
- Open a terminal and run the following command to add the key.
# sudo apt-key add public.key
# sudo apt-get update - After the update is complete, you are ready to install ucview.
# sudo apt-get install ucview - To run ucview..
# /usr/bin/ucview
Install Linux Mint on ASUS eeePc with USB
Filed under: Asus Eee, Linux, Linux Mint | Tags: asus, eeepc, Linux Mint
Comments(18) Required Files
fixmint
Linux Mint
I started by following the directions here until I got to step 7. At this point I was never able to get the USB drive bootable. Below are the steps that I followed and successfully install Linux Mint on my eee.
* (Updated 6.23.2008) I later discovered that the reason I was never able to be the USB drive to be bootable was because of the order in which I inserted the USB drive. In order to have fixmint recognize the USB flash drive, you should have it plugged in before running fixmint. Fixmint adds all the current drives to the makeboot.bat file when it is run. If you run fixmint without the USB drive connected, it will not recognize the USB drive. So either you need to insert the USB drive first or modify the makeboot.bat file afterwards to include the appropriate drive.
- Format my USB drive with FAT32.
- Created a directory on my local PC.`C:\Temp\LinuxM`.
- Download the Linux Mint iso image. I keep mine in a directory on a secondary drive. After the download was complete, I copied it over to the `C:\Temp\LinuxM` directory.
- Download fixmint.exe to the `C:\Temp\LinuxM` directory. Then I ran the fixmint.exe executable.
- Run the fixmint.bat batch file. You can just double-click on it from Windows explorer if you choose.
- Open the command prompt. Change to the directory where you created the LinuxM directory. Change directories to the mint\syslinux\win32 directory. Mine is `C:\Temp\LinuxM\mint\syslinux\win32`. In this win32 directory is a file called syslinux.exe. For some reason none of my Windows machines recognized any of my USB drives as removable (Probably why the makeboot.bat didn’t work). In order to get around this I ran the following command, K is the drive letter of my USB drive.
# syslinux.exe -fma K: // Change K: to the drive letter of your USB drive. - At this point we can copy over the content of the mint directory over to the USB drive.
# xcopy /s *.* K:\ // Change K: to the drive letter of your USB drive.
