Updates; GRUB and Cygwin

A couple of things:
The laptop has been rotting away at home; the most recent thing I did to it was to increase the countdown time before the default OS was booted up. What I did was to login to Debian as root, navigate to the folder where GRUB was installed (/boot/grub), and open various interesting [...]

Installation revisited

Got the itch to install Linux again. Let’s hope this time it works better than the previous unhappy experience.
This time, I chose to install Debian–though it’s relatively more technical than Ubuntu: eg. you have to install and configure the graphics thingy yourself (X windows system and GNOME/KDE–otherwise no nice graphical desktop and windows). Not exactly [...]

List of Useful Links

I will incorporate these links into the links onto the blog when I am feeling less lazy, heh. But for now, however, I am afraid this will have to suffice:
My del.icio.us bookmarks list of linux links
Sorry!
p.s. Thanks for the comments guys–it really encourages me to know the stuff I’ve posted here has been helpful =)
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How to install packages using apt-get and dpkg

Here is a useful link explaining how to install packages, in plain English!
Sometimes there are packages I cannot find in the repositories I have enabled in Synaptic Package Manager, so I download the .deb file from the author’s website. However I do not know how to proceed from there. This link tells you what to [...]

The Automatix: Must-have for new installations

Got this off Linux and Open Source Blog:
The Automatix! Directly from the forum post:

This is a graphical interface for installation of a lot of apps on Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu BREEZY (DOES NOT WORK ON Warty, Hoary or Dapper) and for tweaking a few things to get your Ubuntu box up and working in full throttle in [...]

Pre-installation worries

So I was lucky to receive a copy of Ubuntu 5.10 installation CD and live CD (thanks to these guys! =) ). I’ve been curious about trying out Linux already, but the main things keeping me back were:

Having to dual-boot means having to partition–I’ve always thought partitioning puts your hard drive at risk
Hardware [...]