Content

blog, portfolio, and links

Tagged: gnewsense

2010-05-11 :: David Sterry // Default
What do you call a USB Flash Drive?

Over the last few years, small form-factor solid state usb storage devices have become ubiquitous. They have replaced floppies, CDs and even larger usb hard drives with spinning disks for many backup, file transfer, and utility purposes. The question still remains though, what do we call them? To solve this problem, I turned to Google. […]

Tagged:

1 comment  » Read the rest

2009-09-15 :: David Sterry // Default
gNewSense Wireless That Works

Wireless on a laptop is like wheels on a car. Essential. I’ve been running gNewSense for a few months and have found it to be very stable and kind to me on my HP dv6226us. Unfortunately there are no free drivers for the built in wireless card. That has meant no wireless networking on this […]

Tagged: » »

4 comments  » Read the rest

In this HOWTO I’m going to take you through running gNewSense, a 100% free operating system, on top of your currently installed operating system. This HOWTO mentions how to run gNewSense on top of Ubuntu and Windows though it’s possible to run it on any OS that runs VirtualBox OSE. This HOWTO will only add […]

Tagged: » » »

Comments Off on HOWTO: Run a gNewSense Virtual Machine in seamless mode using VirtualBox OSE  » Read the rest