Category Archives: PostX

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 →

Removing files and folders

It is no secret that with a terminal client you can get many things done very easily. One thing in particular that is done easily via terminal is removing files and folders. Sure, you could use a Gui for file and folder removing but then again it is just as easy – or perhaps even easier when done via terminal client.

First, you should navigate to the folder structure, which contains the files or folders you want to remove. You do this by using cd: Continue reading →