Linux Mint 8 - Fluxbox edition

This edition of Linux Mint works great on my old IBM Thinkpad R40e.
BUT... some applications (e.g. Decibel Audio Player) shows weird, garbage display. Must be the video driver.

So looking around, found out that this laptop uses ATI Radeon drivers, and found this link in the AMD website.

Linux Mint 8 (Helena)

Packages for the workplace:

1. Google Chrome - downloaded .deb package from Google website, with update to etc-sources list

2. Thunderbird 3 - tar.gz download; uninstall the Thunderbird 2 first, then run the thunderbird file. Not as painless an installation as Chrome was.

3. 7z - p7Zip-full package in Mint's Synaptic is more than enough. Installing this automatically makes 7z available as a format to extract or add archives to with the built-in right-click Compress option of Linux Mint.

4. VLC - again... already in Synaptic.

5. IPMsg - using instructions and dependencies from my earlier posts.