Stating The Obvious 0489 – The Technology Rantfest. Episode II: There Is No Cloud. There Are Only Other People’s Computers and People Dumb Enough To Buy Apple Products.
Mint Linux. Very nice distro. Based on Ubuntu (aka Hippy Linux). Does not create a root account because that is too dangerous. When Linux starts protecting stupid people from their own stupidity you know your civilization is fucked. GRUB version 1 has been improved to GRUB version 2. How improved you ask? I’ll tell you. Changing the default boot time in GRUB 1: nano /boot/grub/grub.conf arrow down to timeout=30 change 30 to 60 ctrl+x y enter reboot and done That was not good enough according to the virgins who write GRUB. Thus they improved the process. Changing the default boot … Continue reading →