Posts Tagged ‘ Linux ’

Encrypt a Hard Drive using Truecrypt

Mar 5th, 2010 | By CBrookins

This tutorial will demonstrate how to encrypt an entire partition on a hard drive.  You can use this to encrypt and entire drive, or a particular partition.  I use the Ubuntu Linux version of Truecrypt in this tutorial.  Depending on your operating system, you could have different options to choose from when it comes to
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New Ubuntu 10.04 Branding

Mar 3rd, 2010 | By CBrookins

Ubuntu, after six years, has decided to update their branding.  In a wiki article dated today, Ubuntu explains their decision for the update and gives examples of the direction they are headed.  This could definately win over some of the users who have switched to Linux Mint for the updated look and feel.  I like
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Linux Mint 8

Feb 28th, 2010 | By CBrookins
Linux Mint 8

Linux Mint Helena was finally released, new theme with the same good style.

Linux Mint has been a favorite Linux distribution of mine for the past couple of years now. This group takes Ubuntu and dramatically improves the visual style to give a this distribution an eye catching look. They also improved some core
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Ubuntu One Music Store

Feb 27th, 2010 | By CBrookins

With the release of Ubuntu 10.04 coming up quickly, Canonical plans to add an Ubuntu One Music Store to the distribution. Ubuntu’s lack of an Itunes store alternative has created a problem for users looking to purchase and download music legally.  There are options available, nothing truly competitive.  I personally have been using
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Create a bootable USB drive using Unetbootin

Feb 27th, 2010 | By CBrookins

This is a short tutorial on how to create a bootable USB drive using the free tool Unetbootin.  This will allow you to plug the USB drive into your computer and boot your operating system directly off the USB drive.   This can be used for data recovery, computer forensics, virus cleaning (if you happen to
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Unetbootin

Feb 21st, 2010 | By CBrookins
Unetbootin

UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD.
Take you favorite flavor of Linux, and create a bootable USB drive that you can take with you.  You can select from the list of pre-defined distributions, or point the
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