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The license of Oracle Java makes it impossible for operating system developers to distribute Oracle Java with their operating system. This isn't a suggestion Linux Mint can do anything with. I think maybe I was not clear. I am not suggesting LM pre-install Oracle-Java. I am suggesting LM pre-instal...

Was just looking for this solution today. On LM-Sarah 'lsb_release -ur' returns "lsb_release: error: no such option: -u". However, others mentioned the file `/etc/os-release`, but I think you are all using it wrong. The more elegant solution, IMHO, is: $ source /etc/os-release $ echo $UBUN...

hinto wrote:FWIW,
There's a PPA for Oracle Java
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/install- ... a-ppa.html
-H

Right? Which is what my script uses, plus accepting the Oracle license.

I know that LM is going away from including all the proprietary stuff on the install media. I created the following script that I use to install Oracle Java8. Perhaps this script could be included in a future version LM? #!/bin/bash -e # # filename: /usr/local/sbin/oracle-java-installer # documentat...

... It is your task and decision to run it and show us the result (copy / paste). Whoa, dude, chill! I was just trying to summarize things for anyone else that may be facing this problem. As I said: I have two different LM17 editions, both fresh install, both with the same problem. I am guessing th...

That's messed up. The file permissions were the issue! FYI: the history is written to .bash_history when you exit a terminal. Since my permissions were messed up, the file could not be written to. I run two separate machines: LM17-XFCE and LM17-Cinn. Both are fresh installs, and both have this probl...

The Java installed on most Linux systems is OpenJDK Java 7, which is the latest available.
There is also a Sun Java8, latest available, but Sun license restricts where and how this can be installed. Perhaps this guide would be of interest to you.

$ ls -la .bash* -rw------- 1 root root 1426 May 6 13:42 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 220 Apr 30 09:31 .bash_logout Is "root" the correct ownership for that? :? I do not have a .bashrc, I only have the default startup files that come with the system: .profile, /etc/profile, and eve...

Do you have previews turned on? For that many files, that could take a while to load up.

Hello *. I am running LM17.2. Whenever I close a terminal (logout) my bash history is cleared. How do I stop that? This did not used to happen, but I am not sure what version this was introduced in. I searched through all the bash startup files, and there is a lot of them, and could find the culprit...

Seems like this is already under construction: https://github.com/linuxmint/mdm/issues/51

I suspect we have a misunderstanding.
Every single thing you said so far, I already knew. What I am trying to say is: the procedure you describe used to work, but does not anymore. However, in this case I am not sure if it is a bug or just a feature that I used to exploit.
Thank You.

Right. And one thing that control (or from command line) allows you to do is to set the user's home location. In older LM versions I was able to set it to /tmp, which automatically gets wiped every time you reboot the machine, and whenever this guest account would log in, their home was recreated fr...

Hello all. I would like to create a Guest account on my box, that gets wiped each time the account is used by someone that just "needs to quickly check something". It used to be, in the days of LM10, that when I created the account I would just define their home in /tmp/home/guest. Today r...

xenopeek wrote:You can stop (pause) a process with `kill -STOP pid` and continue it at a later moment with `kill -CONT pid`.

I thought this assumes the application / process is listening for this signal?

From what you describe, this would require a lot of interaction with the application in question - which you did not mention. Does the app itself have the option to restart a process after you stop / kill it? Have a look at 'cron' and 'nice', and see how far those get you. Have a look at some of the...

LM-main-Cinnamon LTS

Go with LM-main-Cinnamon.

wanderer7 wrote:I chose ext4 instead of ext2, because ext2 is too old and without journaling.

For backups only, journaling is a waste of space.

I have the same situation as you.
Assuming the disk will be _only_ for backups, then partition it 50/50 NTFS/ext2.
HTH.