Category: NZTekonverse -> Debian
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Upgrade MainPC (and BedroomPC) to Debian [3]
This is really just a quick followup to two of my four PCs replacing Xubuntu with Debian running Xfce desktop. It’s interesting that I tried out Debian a few times in the past and never liked it that much, maybe using the familiar Xfce desktop has helped but it is far more likely the case…
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Upgrade mainpc to Debian 9.1 [2]
Well as usual I have decided to rush in boots and all and get Debian on this computer. Creating the pen drive for the netinstall image that I used previously to create VMs was a little tricky until I realised it had to be in FAT32 format rather than ext4. The Debian installer threw up…
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Upgrade mainpc to Debian 9.1 [1]
I wrote about this last time. Like all the other times I have upgraded this will be a multi step process because of the various things needed on the system. However none of my other computers will be changed from Xubuntu. I don’t have any real ideological reasons but I do want a system that…
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How to set a custom display resolution in Xubuntu
This is the way to mirror my pair of screens on my bedroom PC. One screen is 1360×768 (a little odd) and the other is 1680×1050. The default mirroring in XFCE will only run them both at a 4:3 resolution like 1280×1024, since this is the highest resolution they are both compatible with, even though…
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Debian vs Xubuntu: The ideal Qgis VM production environment
So having discovered a bug in the Qgis composer as the reason my homebuilt Qgis VMs crash and not any other reason, this idea of building from source has actually been not such a bad thing at all and has left me with something that actually works all in one VM and one that is…