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Fixing GRUB 2.12-rc1 booting issues on the HP Stream 7 and 8 tables by downgrading

Fixing GRUB 2.12-rc1 booting issues on the HP Stream 7 and 8 tables by downgrading

Hi everyone, In this post, we will see how to downgrade GRUB on the HP Stream 7 and 8 tablets. These tablets use the Intel Bay Trail platform and only have a 32-bit bootloader. The CPU in these tablets are 64-bit, so it’s weird that the bootloader only works with 32-bit EFI loaders. The good thing is that we can use a 64-bit version of Linux paired with the 32-bit GRUB EFI loader. In Ubuntu 23.10 and the upcoming Ubuntu…

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Upgrading Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster to Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur

Upgrading Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster to Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur

Hi everyone, Today, we will see how to upgrade Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster to Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur using the terminal. These steps are easy to perform and will get you up and running with the latest stable Ubuntu version. To perform this upgrade, we will use the tool called do-release-upgrade. First, open your terminal window and type do-release-upgrade. Then press, Enter Then, type the y key and press Enter: You’ll be prompted to enter your password: do-release-upgrade will start…

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You can now upgrade Ubuntu to Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur Development Version

You can now upgrade Ubuntu to Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur Development Version

Hi everyone, Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster got released this past month. Now, development for Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur has started and you can upgrade to its development version right now. If you like to test software and don’t mind bugs and other potential issues, I’ll show you how simple it is to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10. First, you’ll need to open a terminal and type do-release-upgrade -d. The -d option indicates that you want to install a development version: You…

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Partitioning the Samsung SSD 980 500GB using gparted

Partitioning the Samsung SSD 980 500GB using gparted

Hi everyone, In this post, we will be partitioning our Samsung SSD 980 500GB using gparted for use in our Linux machine. Before we create a partition in our drive, we must have gparted installed. If you do not have it installed, follow these instructions below to install it. Installing gparted We will be installing gparted in Ubuntu 23.04. To install it, we will use apt. The command to use is sudo apt install gparted: We will approve the installation…

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Installing Node.js 10.x on Ubuntu Focal (20.04) before the official release

Installing Node.js 10.x on Ubuntu Focal (20.04) before the official release

Hi everyone, Today, I’ll guide you through the steps of installing Node.js 10.x on Ubuntu Focal (20.04) which is stated to be officially released on April 23, 2020. Right now, installing Node.js using the NodeSource Node.js official repositories do not work because they do not support unreleased versions of Ubuntu. You may think of using a previous Ubuntu repository in order to install Node.js, but this will actually not work. This is because Ubuntu 20.04 renamed the Python 2 packages…

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