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@George Are you saying you were unsuccessful burning the .iso to a DVD?

No problem to burn it to a DVD and run it from there, George, same as before. For 64-bit Linux Mint: http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=172 Download the .iso file and burn it to a DVD, it's a 1.4G download. Then boot your machine with the DVD. If you like what you see, there are options...

I'm going to talk about George as if he's not here. I really, really want him to have a good Linux experience. He's an asset, and I want to get him over to this site posting full time like he used to on the old site. It looks like he's now getting ready to finally commit to the change. I'm...

I think you have to forget your past experiences with Gnome and Linux in general. Things have come so far, even in the 7 or 8 years I have used it extensively, that 15 year old memories are moot. As far as the environment goes, there are many, many choices. Everyone has his preference. I...

George, whatever distro you end up with, never fear. There are plenty of folks here to help out if you run into a problem, and there are no reasons at all to think about changing your nVidia card. It will work fine. Hey, if we were able to get Daniel running, you'll be a slam-dunk, lolz.

Slightly off-topic, but I'd like to see a guide on how to get Win7 going in VirtualBox in a Linux host. I've tried several times, but something comes up each time, and I haven't had the time to debug. I'm probably doing something simple incorrectly, but I'm not sure what. It might be...

One of the most famous messages in all computing was posted exactly 24 years ago today, on 25 August, 1991: Read more about the birth of Linux in the words of the boss [from arstechnica]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/how-linux-was-born-as-told-by-linus-torvalds-himself/

I would think that you could set those startup variables directly from ~/.xinitrc as well, without an extra .sh file.

Lolz, then we'd better figure out how how to break stuff, then. Get to work, men.

I don't miss pulseaudio in the slightest. You have nothing to be sad about. I've been using alsa + jack, and it is brilliant for my purposes. No bugs at all that I have seen.

Starring none other than Daniel Radcliffe, known for his Harry Potter roles. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32825385/grand-theft-auto-firm-sues-bbc-over-daniel-radcliffe-film

From The Daily Dot.com: More than a 100,000 World of Warcraft players using “bots” to automate gameplay were just handed down a six-month timeout from Blizzard Entertainment. More here: http://www.dailydot.com/geek/blizzard-bans-100000-players-world-of-warcraft/?fb=dd

thunderrd@QX9650:~$ uname -a Linux QX9650 4.0.0-ck #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 19 10:44:56 ICT 2015 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU X9650 @ 3.90GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux I built it a few days ago, so far no problems, other than I had to patch the nvidia v340.76 driver file to cooperate with...

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty Richard Stallman's opus was published in March, 1985, and he's still challenging the system with his free software ideals.

The Boss says that the next kernel release will be 4.0, after a developers' survey that asked if they were ready to start a new numbering series. The next kernel would have been 3.20 if the devs hadn't voted for 4.0. He says the new number series doesn't mean that much, except that "I can do...

From the CEO of Brocade: http://fortune.com/2015/03/15/why-a-free-and-open-internet-is-pointless/ TL;DR - The infrastructure is ancient, and the FCC has reclassified the Internet as a public utility. I think you all can guess what's coming next. Yup, more government overseeing our lives!

And ultimately, it's all the US government's fault. If they hadn't throttled my personal hero Phil Zimmermann and Co. in the '90's with the exportation of PGP, everyone would have freely been able to access the best possible encryption schemes...

The best thing to do - always - when you have troubleshooting like this is to post in the forum, not PM a member. PM'ing your member of choice will most likely result in no help at all; we do our business on an open forum for a reason, and that is so others can benefit from the work. You...

...and took with him a significant part of my formative years. Now past the final frontier: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html...

Looks like it's in hard drive firmware this time: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/russian-researchers-expose-breakthrough-us-spying-program/ar-BBhE3Fx