📷 Here's a fun photo from last year's 'Critical Mass' book tour. After wrapping up a wonderful book signing event at Books Inc. (Palo Alto), friends and fans joined up to carry on the night. It was a great evening full of lively conversation and stories to share.
*Photo: Gavin, Daniel, Kevin, Jim, Jordy, Joseph, Michelle, Mark
I've setup a few installs of Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) for family, friends, and myself. I really like it! Mint's Cinnamon desktop comes with sensible defaults, is easy to customize, and intuitive to use for new and old Linux users alike.
MintyFresh is my setup script for the latest release of LMDE 6 aka "Faye". It is ideally run after the first boot into a fresh LMDE install:
I like to create encrypted storage space to hold the contents of my home directory that is separate from the root filesystem. This makes it easier if I decide to re-install Linux on the target system while preserving user data.
LMDE offers an "expert-mode" install option that is considerably more flexible in handling a custom partition layout of disk storage. I use it to create encrypted partitions for root and home (no LVM):
