Technical Reviews and Geek Toys

The Linux Mint team just released the newest version of Linux Mint.  Based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Linux Mint 9 "Isadora" is most definately a winner.  New features include a New Software Manager with over 30,000 packges; a new Backup Tool; improvements to… more »

Six more days to ago before the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. In addition to Ubuntu Netwook, Kubuntu Netbook is being released. I thought I would take a more in-depth look at the two Netbook versions and do some comparisons. more »

I always get excited whenever a new release of Ubuntu is coming up.  With 12 days to the release of 10.04 I downloaded the Beta2 version of Ubuntu as well as the Ubuntu Netbook version and ran them on virtualBox.  This is what I found... more »

I seem to be on a roll here so this article will cover the installation of Linux Mint XFCE on a virtual machine.  In this article I will demonstrate how to create and install XFCE into a VirtualBox virtual machine. more »

The Linux Mint team announced the release of Linux Mint 8 “Helena” LXDE Community Edition RC1 a few days ago. I built a virtualbox machine to test it and here is what I found... more »