How to dual boot

A dual boot can be a necessity for several reasons. The first if you're working in the Linux community, and are a gamer; there are very few games in the Linux world (but that's slowly changing).

This will be a quick overview of how to do a dual boot.

Burn a copy of two or more operating systems to either a flash drive, CD, or any other form of removable media. If you're going to do a dual boot with Microsoft Windows, I recommend you install Microsoft Windows normally, with Microsoft Windows the boot-loader doesn't seem to play well with others.  Once you've install the first operating system; that's where it seems to get a little tricky. Linux environments make it a little bit easier.


1.  Back up all your necessary files.  (pictures, doc files, etc)

2.  Burn copies of gparted, and the two or more operating systems you'll be using.



Now, that being said:
First install the operating system(s) of your choice, remember if you're using Microsoft Windows; install that one first.  Next install the operating system, if you're using a Linux operating system; use gparted to creating a partition. Once that is done, then put in the other operating system, an install the operating system to the setup you prefer and you’re done.


You now have two or more operating systems on your desktop or laptop...   enjoy...








Credit to:
Travis Russell, thank you Travis for your friendship and support, an most certainly the laughs about goats...  LOL


Misty Hewitt, for your help, patience and humoring me with my thoughts on tech LOL


Anders Sporring for your help through my trying times and your friendship



http://gparted.org/index.php
http://gparted.org/download.php
http://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual

Enigmail and Online Privacy

There are ever increasing threats, to everyone's privacy.  An not just in government agencies, but to your average citizen.  An privacy is just not for big government, but for everyone; an it's becoming
 more and more vital each day.  An in this post, I'll be talking about Enigmail, a extension for Thunderbird and Seamonkey.  Privacy is for everyone, this tiny application for Thunderbird and Seamonkey encrypts your emails from prying eyes.  It also like other posts, it's open-source and a large community base; with developers and users.  But it's primary purpose is to encrypt your emails being sent to who ever has the proper keys to open it (keys are figurative, but much like a lock and key, only certain keys will open certain locks).  An crackers are getting wiser to unprotected systems, which is why Enigmail is becoming so important to everyone.  Because security is for everyone, not just sysadmins or cyber security experts.  An other reason, I use email clients like, Thunderbird is because its highly customizable and more secure then most email clients.  Enigmail is a add on to thunderbird and a few other email clients.  An very easy to set up and use.  So give it a shot and reclaim more of your online privacy.

https://www.enigmail.net/documentation/index.php

https://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php

https://www.enigmail.net/download/index.php

FeeNAS

FreeNAS stands for free network attached storage, which is enterprise situations as well as small business, even in home; it's a great solution.  Because if need a operating system, that's stable, robust and just a all around superior nas operating system; then FreeNAS is your best solution.  An it's pretty straight forward for intermediate to expert IT professionals.   A few of the features that FreeNAS has to offer is.


1.  ZFS file system.

2.  Redundancy

3.  Highly customizable

4.  Big community base of developers and users.


An that's just to name a few of them, so much can be done with this operating system, if your looking for a great NAS operating system that can work pretty much any off the shelf hardware; then FreeNAS is worth looking into.  


https://doc.freenas.org/
http://download.freenas.org/

Note worthy open-source software for Microsoft Windows

LibreOffice:

LibreOffice is a powerful yet small open-source office suite, that's cross-platform. Since Windows 7 and up disabled quite a few of futures in their office suite, a lot of people have been left wondering, what they use to handle their office needs.

VLC:

VLC is a free and open source media player, that is cross platform, an it can play everything. Including open source codecs like flac. As well as proprietary codecs too; like mp3 and m4a

Firefox and Thunderbird:

Firefox has a long history in the open source world, it was a pioneer in a sense. Because netscape was the first to release it's source code, which was code named Mozilla and the browser was called Firefox, an the email client was called Thunderbird. Both have a large community base, for users to developers.

VeraCrypt:

VeraCrypt offers on the fly encryption of a system volume, whether it be a whole partition or just a file in the form of say, an iso. An once again cross platform, very stable and very tough.

0AD:

0AD is a open source game, which is one of a small group of them. If you've played Civilization, then you should be familiar with playing this game, a lot of fun, for all ages and works on all platforms.

I hope you've enjoyed this, as much as I have; so get cracking and have some fun.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/download/

https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/

http://play0ad.com/download/

The Importance of open-source software...

• There's several reasons why opensource software is important.

• Being freedom of choice to download what you want and use how you see fit.

• The cost value, most opensource software cost little to nothing to own.

• Another reason is it's free to share and distribute to anyone and everyone that you want too.

• Also another reason is if you have programing skills, it's free to modify and share your modifications with everyone.

• But in my opinion the greatest perk of all is free as in speech, freedom of choice it supports basic freedoms.

This is just a short post a little food for thought for everyone.

For further assistence, email me at jec.free.tech7784276@gmail.com and please consider making a donation if you found this helpful or in need one on one help click the donation button and I'll be more then happy to help. Thank you and enjoy!  

burning and installing a operating system...

How to install a burn and install a open-source operating system on a computer; in this post I'll be using Linux Mint operating system. Which is one of th e best open-source operating systems out there; that's really easy for beginners and more advanced users to use! Also I'll explain how to set up your fresh install too.

• Download the ISO at Linux Mint Download also if you're fimler with using a bittorent like utorrent, you can also use that, but how to use a bittorent will be explained in later posts.

• Once the download is complete, use your favorite burning software like in more current Microsoft Windows products it comes with a way to burn ISO's to a DVD or CD. But for this case you'll need a blank DVD to do this; because the ISO for Linux Mint is a rather large file.

• Once the burn is successful (make sure yo verify that is correct in your burning software which usually the option to do that is clearly visible.) Put the blank CD or DVD back in the DVD/CD tray. An restart your computer in HP you press esc or in Dells you press F12 in doing that make sure you press the option to boot from the CD/DVD ROM

• The whole installation process of the operating system will walk you through it, but if you should make a mistake the good thing about open-source and this process is you don't have to worry about product keys or having so many times to reinstall it, because you can reinstall as many times as you like and on as many different computer's as you like. Because in the open-source community you're encouraged to share.

• Now once you've completed the installation process, in the lower right hand corner you should see a shield with a blue dot in the middle of it, that means you got updates to install, anytime you see a blue dot on the shield that means you've got updates to do. But if you see a shield with a check mark on it; that means you're up to date on it.

 That pretty much sums up the whole installation process, if you have any questions or need further assistance please email me at jc.free.tech.7784276@gmail.com.com and if you found this helpful please consider making a donation also for more help click on the paypal link above for my services. Thank you and enjoy...

first post time to get the show on the road...

Well this is my first post, the aim of the blog to make things a little easier for people and in plain english.  Because most people who have little to no experience with IT; the whole purpose is to make the basics a little more approachable and more advanced stuff as well.  Hope you enjoy the ride as much as I will.  Thanks and enjoy...