Monthly Archives: January 2017

PostX Gnu/Linux 0.4.1 is released

Year begins with a new release of PostX Gnu/Linux.

The 0.4 release notes still mostly apply. So, if in any doubt go here.

January 3rd 2017 edit: I had written echi=off to the 0.4 original release notes, which is wrong. It should be edd=off. Edd stands for Enhanced disk drive. Apologies for the mistake. Use edd=off in the case that the boot to live-environment hangs and does not continue. Now, the entry should also be correct within the original release notes.

Download PostX Gnu/Linux 0.4.1 from the release folder. Continue reading →

Installing from non-free and contrib repositories

When you want to install something that is not open source then you usually need to enable non-free and contrib repositories, or equivalent, in Debian based systems.

Note. In PostX Gnu/Linux 0.4.1 contrib and non-free repositories are automatically added to the binary by default. You can also install every driver+flash (that are mentioned within this post) easily by doing sudo apt-get install driver within a terminal.

First, you will need to modify your sources.list Continue reading →