Productive Lazy Saturday
Yesterday the Linux Mint people announced that the RC of Linux Mint 17, called "Qiana" because not all that many women's names start with "Q" and end with "A", is available. Heck with the RC, updates will turn it official soon enough, so I installed it on a partition on my laptop that previously housed a prior version of Mint. Version 13, I believe, because I keep about four earlier versions of Mint on my laptop for no other reason than because I can. There's also an installation of Windows 7, but it has decided it's no longer going to boot so it really doesn't count.
Anyway it took about 2-3 hours, which was really a fresh install. I keep all my data files on a partition separate from the programs so I can just pave a partition, install the newest version, and add any additional programs I need to do the stuff I like to do. In this case that included Flash. For some reason the Flash player wouldn't admit to its own existence on Mint 17, even though apt said it was installed. Five minutes' work and I was able to work the puzzles I like to do, pretending they keep my mind sharp.
Then, since Mint is based on Ubuntu, "Qiana" is a rebranding of Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) with a different user interface. Since Ubuntu trusty has been out for about a month and it's a long-term release that will be supported for several years, I went ahead and installed it, but I haven't decided yet whether I will keep it until the next long=term release in 2016 or whether I'll just update every six months with the interim Ubuntu/Mint releases.
Since trusty has been out for a month now and looks like the rough edges have been smoothed, I went ahead and put Xubuntu 14.04LTS on my desktop server. It seems to be working just fine as well, apart from the same Flash issue I saw in Mint.
So what else have I been doing today? Napping. Listening to some Internet streams Snacking. Napping some more. And counting my many, many blessings that I've been back to work for two weeks and will be going back for a third on Monday.
Speaking of which, I brought my laptop home with me yesterday but I haven't unpacked it yet. I don't have anything I have to do. I just brought it home to test out work's VPN. Maybe I'll just do that on Starbucks on Monday.
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Anyway it took about 2-3 hours, which was really a fresh install. I keep all my data files on a partition separate from the programs so I can just pave a partition, install the newest version, and add any additional programs I need to do the stuff I like to do. In this case that included Flash. For some reason the Flash player wouldn't admit to its own existence on Mint 17, even though apt said it was installed. Five minutes' work and I was able to work the puzzles I like to do, pretending they keep my mind sharp.
Then, since Mint is based on Ubuntu, "Qiana" is a rebranding of Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) with a different user interface. Since Ubuntu trusty has been out for about a month and it's a long-term release that will be supported for several years, I went ahead and installed it, but I haven't decided yet whether I will keep it until the next long=term release in 2016 or whether I'll just update every six months with the interim Ubuntu/Mint releases.
Since trusty has been out for a month now and looks like the rough edges have been smoothed, I went ahead and put Xubuntu 14.04LTS on my desktop server. It seems to be working just fine as well, apart from the same Flash issue I saw in Mint.
So what else have I been doing today? Napping. Listening to some Internet streams Snacking. Napping some more. And counting my many, many blessings that I've been back to work for two weeks and will be going back for a third on Monday.
Speaking of which, I brought my laptop home with me yesterday but I haven't unpacked it yet. I don't have anything I have to do. I just brought it home to test out work's VPN. Maybe I'll just do that on Starbucks on Monday.
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