There are many Virtualization solutions that run on Linux and of course Linux Mint. Oracle Virtualbox is a virtualization software available for Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac, . It is available from the Linux Mint Julia Repositories and can be installed directly via Software Manager. However, if you install the open source version i.e. virtualbox-ose package, you will not be able to connect your USB devices and share folders between Guest and Host machines. File sharing can be set up in other ways, but if you wish to use one of your USB devices which has no Linux drivers, you may need to install Windows inside Virtualbox and connect your devices so that you can install drivers inside. In that case, you will need to install closed source edition of Virtualbox i.e. virtualbox-nonfree.

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I am using Debian Squeeze Testing and I wanted to allow myself to shutdown without entering root password. To do so, I just executed the following as root: Continue Reading

If you are using Debian Squeeze, you can install plymouth and it will install some plymouth themes by default. You can list the installed themes by running the following command in the terminal: Continue Reading

I have written a small shell script to preview plymouth themes. I have successfully tested it in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and Debian Squeeze Testing. It should also work with other Linux distros. Please make sure you have installed the package plymouth-x11 (or equivalent) before using this script.

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I was trying to play a video with Totem in Debian Squeeze Testing and got the following error and only video played.

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When I right click on files/directories and click on “Open with another application”, I get a lot of duplicate entries and unwanted applications (like Wine applications I don’t have anymore, Minefield browser which I removed a long time ago, duplicate entries for Geany etc.). To remove them, I opened up my ~/.local/share/applications/ by pressing Alt+F2 and typing in Continue Reading

While you can download the latest version of Eclipse PDT from Eclipse Download Page and install it manually, it is great to setup a repository instead so that you can get updates from it automatically via update manager. Eclipse is available in the official Debian repos but PDT is not. It is available in Yogarine Eclipse PPA in Launchpad. For Debian Squeeze, add the following line to Sources.list (or add it via Software Sources or in Third Party Repositories in Synaptic): Continue Reading

I am using Debian Squeeze Testing and I have gdm3 installed.  I wanted to change the default gdm theme and here is how I did it.

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