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kb:linux:mint13xfceafter1stboot [2014/07/17 17:42] Allen Smith + sudo nano => gksu leafpad |
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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 **7 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 P4D 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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* <code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-2</code> | * <code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-2</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> |