Linux Mint
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Ubuntu LTS Enablement Stacks
LTS Enablement Stacks allow Ubuntu 12.04 upgrades to newer kernel versions. By upgrading to newer kernel, ubuntu 12.04 can support more hardware. You can choose newer kernel version up to 12.10 (Quantal), 13.04 (Raring), 13.10 (Saucy). So how to upgrade your current ubuntu 12.04 kernel to newer kernel ? Replace “release” word to “quantal” for ubuntu 12.10 kernel, “raring” for ubuntu…
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How to disable bluetooth on ubuntu, xubuntu and linux mint
After upgraded linux kernel to 3.11 on my xubuntu 12.04 LTS laptop, I *feel* my laptop run a bit faster, i want to speed up my laptop even further. I have tweaked my laptop heavily, but have not disabled bluetooth yet (I do not use bluetooth), so now it’s the time to do. To stop bluetooth service $ su - $ service…
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How to upgrade ubuntu 12.04 / 13.04 and linux mint 14 / 15 to linux kernel 3.11
I just upgraded xubuntu 12.04 LTS on my laptop to linux kernel 3.11 (ubuntu 13.10 saucy kernel). Everything seems to be a bit faster, due to some new features in Linux kernel 3.11. What new/hot in linux kernel 3.11 from Linus Torvalds? Zswap was merged for compressed swap caching AMD Radeon DPM Support Low Latency Network Polling KVM/ Xen support for…
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How to install GUI on Ubuntu and Linux Mint
You have Ubuntu Server which does not come with a GUI (Graphical User Interface) or desktop environment, you have slow performance problem with your current GUI? Or you simply want to change your current desktop environment to a diffrent one, I will show you how to install GUI on Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, or any Ubuntu based distributions, and Linux Mint.…
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How to install Nvidia CUDA 5.5 on Ubuntu
What is CUDA? CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) was developed by Nvidia from 2006, it’s a parallel rather than single thread computing programming platform which allows GPUs (graphics processing units) work better and more efficiently. There are more than 300 million GPUs in desktops, notebooks, workstations, even supercomputers support CUDA that help to simulate physics, astronomy, biology programs to run.…