LinuxNiche

The ramblings of a linux geek..

Entries for February, 2009

Linux Mint

Thought I’d give it a try! So.. I thought I’d try the new “easy” Linux for newbies and see what progress has been made to top Ubuntu.  Of course.. Linux Mint is so built on Ubuntu that it actually still uses it’s repositories!! Interesting.

Update – Been busy

Hey All, Past couple of days have been quite busy for me and I haven’t had time to get any further with the N810 or work on any other projects.  I’ll definitely have something up by this weekend.  See some software below.

Running Ubuntu LXDE on Nokia N810

Well, here we go! So, when I last left you I said that I would show you what this thing can do and load a fully functional LXDE desktop from the Ubuntu packages. You can do this from either inside Maemo, chrooted into your Mer partition, or, if you are still staring at the pretty [...]

Setting up Mer (Ubuntu) 0.7 on Nokia N810

Let’s see what happens! NOTE: Mer 0.7 is very outdated. To keep up with the newer versions you can follow it at talk.maemo.org. So, I have had the Nokia N810 for quite some time now and I’ve been thoroughly impressed with this little device.  When the Deblet project came around, introducing a FULL debian based [...]

Welcome

Welcome to my Blog. I don’t know why you’re here.. The most likely explanation is that you have gotten yourself lost, as the world of the “intrawebz” is quite large and vast.  Let me redirect you somewhere that probably has more relevant information to your tastes: Google. That’s right, somewhere that you can search to [...]

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