Linux Mint 16 released
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Downloaded it, installed it, removed it. It seemed to run dog slow, which was very dissapointing as 15 worked nicely.
EDIT: I've since tried it several weeks after release (when I initially tried it) and it seems to be OK.
EDIT: I've since tried it several weeks after release (when I initially tried it) and it seems to be OK.
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Had a Dell 1737 in need of an OS, and figured I'd try something different.
Quite liking this so far, have no experience of Mint at all, and aside from a few hours using Ubuntu, have no Linux experience.
Installed on a 64gb Crucial M4, performance is great. I was concerned that battery life wouldn't be as good as if I'd put Windows on, but it seems about the same.
Quite liking this so far, have no experience of Mint at all, and aside from a few hours using Ubuntu, have no Linux experience.
Installed on a 64gb Crucial M4, performance is great. I was concerned that battery life wouldn't be as good as if I'd put Windows on, but it seems about the same.
Nice link, thanks.
To be fair to the guy who wrote the article I linked to, however, extra file systems were about all that was missing between our two links. He covered pretty much everything else in a n00b-friendly way, which was the point of his article. Always nice to have more info though and I've bookmarked the Arch wiki link. Cheers. 
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Running under VirtualBox here and noticed that Chrome seems to leave window contents on the screen after its been closed ... UNLESS running in full-screen mode. A bit annoying, but liveable with.
I have put mint 16 mate on a old 4gb usb drive and it boots quite quick and looks easier to use than the last time I tried linux. Bit of a newbie when it comes to linux so was quite pleased to see that linux has become more user (read old windows user now newbie linux tempted) friendly.
As a long time windows user I am still trying get my head around internet security re firewall and antivirus protection.
As a long time windows user I am still trying get my head around internet security re firewall and antivirus protection.
Mint (as with most *nix distros) has an enterprise strength firewall built-in and you can access it using one of many available GUIs. If you're behind a NAT router though there's no real need for it.
As for antivirus, most people will tell you that you don't need it. Strictly speaking they're absolutely correct, as there are NO viruses for Linux. There are, however, a few worms and trojans which can be installed via exploits. Last time I checked however, this still required the user to input their root password (i.e. agree to the install of the malware!).
In the real world, at least for now, you can safely forego anti-malware suites and the like. If you're particularly worried you could use browser extensions such as NoScript and not use Java or Flash, but that's way overkill on *nix. There are a couple of command line tools such as rkhunter (rootkit hunter) and Comodo also do quite a decent (and light) free anti-malware suite with a full blown GUI and real-time scanner for Linux. It can detect all known Linux, Windows and OS X malware, but as I said it's just overkill tbh.
Pick a good root password, be careful where and how you browse, and have plugins set to on-demand (e.g. in browser options and enforced with NoScript and CilckToFlash etc). At the end of the day this is 99% academic. Linux is a world away from Windows and you really are much safer. It's not simply security through obscurity (especially given that a massive percentage of the internet actually runs on *nix) but rather a more hardened OS with default security wisely set up (non-root users by default, SELinux, etc).