Month: April 2016
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Virtualisation in Linux
Well like all good OSs you can run virtualisation in Linux. Here is a screenshot of a new VM I am setting up with VMWare Workstation Player 12. The reason why I am using a virtual machine is that Wine isn’t quite so perfect and there are going to be ongoing issues with its compatibility…
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Lubuntu
Today I have started setting up three of my computers with Lubuntu. This might be increased to four in future, or else maybe the fourth one will run Mint, or be left on Windows 7 – it is mainly used for media playback. I have chosen to use Lubuntu because I have several old, slow…
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Multiple Monitors on Linux
One of the features of Linux as with other operating systems is its multiple monitor capability. As with Windows you can have your desktop spread across two or more screens, with different windows showing on different monitors. Cinnamon in Mint has added the ability to have multiple panels (taskbar equivalent) on each screen and to…
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Sharing resources between Windows and Linux computers
Since I have two main computers and one runs Windows while the other runs Linux, there are inevitably going to be some ways in which I will try to share resources between the two computers. Linux of course comes with Samba preinstalled to allow shared folders to be accessible to Windows. One of the key…
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Irfanview on Wine
With any computer system there is a point reached where the software you like is on a different platform and you have to find some workaround. Various types of virtualisation are common workarounds. Wine is a type of virtualisation that allows some software packages designed for Windows to be run under Linux. Well, IrfanView can…