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Even with the media, I'm talking about the installation routine that has to download codecs and ms ttf for 300MB, which is too much for non-broadband connections. I'm not talking about media.

In the second world of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS nations) many people are still online with dialup 33kbps so it is not practical to do 300MB downloads during installations and a complete offline version would be priceless and accelerate adoption of linux significantly.

There are 105 libraries in Cape Town, each with 5 terminals running OpenSUSE linux and flash disks are allowed and they don't worry about viruses - that blasted my imagination in 2009 and got me looking at Linux, first Ubuntu, then Mint. For 5 years I've tried to support Microsoft at cybercafes with...

Yes to MartyMint's question

I plugged in my phone with USB cable to use it as a modem, configured the New GSM connection appropriately, ticked "Enable Mobile Broadband" option and tried to connect to the phone companies internet service - not working maybe because Enable Mobile Broadband in not turned on ever. I checked the ad...

Hello All Before the next World Cup Soccer in Brazil in 2014, let's convert every internet cafe in the world, to run LinuxMint servers and clients, e.g. especially in Brazilian Portuguese. How's that for impact? To show LinuxMint is virus-free and bulletproof, yet as-easy-as-XP. The Point of Sale sy...

I also want to know how to format a flash drive under Mint. Ubuntu puts the format option as a right click on the desktop icon for the flash. What happened with such a simple common task in MATE? Gparted is dangerous and doesn't show the flash drives correctly. All my 3 flash drive were once made bo...

Not working in last weeks release of LinuxMint 14.1 MATE 64bit edition. Please advise.