April Showers bring old machines with XP to Linux
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April Showers bring old machines with XP to Linux
Greetings from the Great White North, Tip 'O the Mitt, MI. Finally a day above freezing! I have dabbled with Mint 15 (dual boot with XP), but now that my good old Thinkpad R60 is not capable of a new windows system, I wiped the slate clean and installed Mint 13 to get a supported distro. I did not have any problems with Olivia but seeing it was no longer supported I decided to go this route. Any thoughts? I did however have to purchase a new laptop for school, which leaves me this one to play with. My major is in geographic information systems, so I have been working on my computer skills for the past 4 years. Not bad for never having touched a computer before 2009 (50 year old displaced worker/homebuilder). I am hoping this will be a good place to find information when I run into problems, and if anyone else running a R60 has any helpful tips I would be glad to hear them.
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Re: April Showers bring old machines with XP to Linux
Mint 13 would be a good choice I would imagine, on mint 16 myself 64 bit with a T61, not sure how the spec's differ from yours but 16 flys on this . . . . .
Re: April Showers bring old machines with XP to Linux
here are XP themes for your Linux MInt in case you get nostalgic: http://www.noobslab.com/2014/01/windows ... e-for.html
For geography check this application directory https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/department/geography/ and BTW Linux Mint is 100 per cent compatible with Ubuntu
Re: April Showers bring old machines with XP to Linux
Thank you for the info Zorba, I have quite a bit to learn, and it is going to be interesting.
Re: April Showers bring old machines with XP to Linux
Welcome to the mint family forums,
we have new members joining all the time from early teens to octogenarians, most problems you encounter will have been found before and had a fix or work round found,if you need to ask questions please give details of your hardware..
wizard
we have new members joining all the time from early teens to octogenarians, most problems you encounter will have been found before and had a fix or work round found,if you need to ask questions please give details of your hardware..
wizard
Re: April Showers bring old machines with XP to Linux
Welcome to LinuxMint
Read everything you can -- Forums - Wiki - IRC
Linux: Tricks of the Trade > http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=38355
What works for Ubuntu, usually works for Mint > http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/
Linux Alternative to Windows > http://www.linuxalt.com/
Remember, all OS-Distro, Apps, DE/WM are Open-Source and have a Help-Forum
Read everything you can -- Forums - Wiki - IRC
Linux: Tricks of the Trade > http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=38355
What works for Ubuntu, usually works for Mint > http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/
Linux Alternative to Windows > http://www.linuxalt.com/
Remember, all OS-Distro, Apps, DE/WM are Open-Source and have a Help-Forum
Re: April Showers bring old machines with XP to Linux
Welcom nofudge!
I came to the GIS world about 10 years ago also in my 50s, what a coincidence. Although I've since retired from professional GIS work (I was a cadastral cartographer) I still dabble with it on my Window machine (I have a student copy of ArcGIS 9.1).
I too would be interested to know if you find any GIS programs that run well on Mint (I am using Mint 16 Cinnamon).
Cheers,
Beagle
I came to the GIS world about 10 years ago also in my 50s, what a coincidence. Although I've since retired from professional GIS work (I was a cadastral cartographer) I still dabble with it on my Window machine (I have a student copy of ArcGIS 9.1).
I too would be interested to know if you find any GIS programs that run well on Mint (I am using Mint 16 Cinnamon).
Cheers,
Beagle