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| ====== Mint 13 Xfce: After First Boot Configuration ====== | ====== Mint 13 Xfce: After First Boot Configuration ====== | ||
| - | This page contains **Summary Notes** that I would use when going over how I load Mint 13 Xfce with someone else. | ||
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| + | ===== Install Notes Context ===== | ||
| + | This page contains **Summary Notes** that I would use when going over how I load Mint 13 Xfce with someone else. If a system is **6 to 10 years old**, then these notes cover how I would probably go about loading Linux onto that equipment. | ||
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| + | These notes are rather extensive, because the more I worked with Mint 13 Xfce, the more I found that I needed to configure-- to make this version of Linux something I would hand over to a novice user. To be blunt, I consider Mint 13 Xfce to be a "best compromise" ... where it was the best 12.04 LTS Linux based distribution that I could find to refurbish **really old** hardware-- and turn that into a system that was actually usable for home, school or home-office type uses. | ||
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| + | That using this, even a 3.0GHz P4 computer with 2GB of RAM and an 80GB Hard Drive becomes a system I would use for my own daily needs. And if a really old (P4 era) laptop has "sound issues"-- or some other old hardware related difficulties-- this is the version of Linux that I can usually use to get that system to reliably "just work". | ||
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| + | As the page title makes known, these instructions are everything I go through **after** the Linux Mint 13 Xfce installer has run, and the system has rebooted at the end of that-- to run this OS for the first time. | ||
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| ===== Initial Hardware Check & Configure ===== | ===== Initial Hardware Check & Configure ===== | ||
| * The "quick check" that the Hard Drive is good only works properly after the 1st boot | * The "quick check" that the Hard Drive is good only works properly after the 1st boot | ||
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| * Settings >> Software Sources >> Other Software | * Settings >> Software Sources >> Other Software | ||
| * select then Remove the ''packages.medibuntu.org'' Software Source | * select then Remove the ''packages.medibuntu.org'' Software Source | ||
| - | <note>GIMP 2.8 was the first version to offer "Single Window Mode" ... which places all the parts of GIMP into a single window -- in the manner that many other Paint Programs are setup -- instead of having many windows open for the different parts of the GIMP program.\\ \\ LibreOffice 4.2 provides **drastically better compatibility** with things like Microsoft Office ... so I also consider it a "must have" program for using Linux.</note> | + | <note>GIMP 2.8 was the first version to offer "Single Window Mode" ... which places all the parts of GIMP into a single window -- in the manner that many other Paint Programs are setup -- instead of having many windows open for the different parts of the GIMP program.\\ \\ LibreOffice 4.3 provides **drastically better compatibility** with things like Microsoft Office ... so I also consider it a "must have" program for using Linux.</note> |
| * Use the appropriate PPA's to update GIMP and LibreOffice to the current version. (GIMP 2.8 & LibreOffice 4.2) | * Use the appropriate PPA's to update GIMP and LibreOffice to the current version. (GIMP 2.8 & LibreOffice 4.2) | ||
| * <code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp</code> | * <code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp</code> | ||
| - | * <code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-2</code> | + | * <code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-3</code> |
| - | * Now command Linux Mint to use the about the above changes to the Software Sources | + | * Now command Linux Mint to use the above changes to the Software Sources |
| * <code>sudo apt-get update</code> | * <code>sudo apt-get update</code> | ||
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| * click ”Ok” to any additional changes pop-ups | * click ”Ok” to any additional changes pop-ups | ||
| * click ”Replace” to any “Replace configuration file” pop-ups | * click ”Replace” to any “Replace configuration file” pop-ups | ||
| - | * Now set this to check for updates **only once per day**! | + | * When the updates finish, the shield icon should have a Green Check, and Updates must be re-opened to run the below. |
| - | * top of window menu >> Edit >> Preferences >> Auto-Refresh | + | * Now set the Update Manager to check for updates **only once per day**! |
| + | * top of window menu >> "Edit" >> "Preferences" >> the "Auto-Refresh" tab | ||
| * Change the time interval from 15 min. to 1 day | * Change the time interval from 15 min. to 1 day | ||
| <note warning> | <note warning> | ||
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