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Fedora Linux 38 Cinnamon SPIN – Part 1: Upgrade from 36 & 37

August 10, 2025April 21, 2023 by Karmi

Fedora Linux 38 is out ‘n I’ll be doing a two part series on Fedora Linux 38 Cinnamon SPIN. This post is Part 1 ‘n will be on the System Upgrades I have just done — two upgrades from Fedora 37 ‘n one upgrade from Fedora 36. Part 2 will be doing a clean installation using the Anaconda installer.

Fedora Linux makes a great portable OS ‘n I have it install on two USBs — a 64 GB SanDisk Ultra for its portability & a 64 GB SanDisk Ultra Fit that stays plugged into a switched SABRENT 7 Port USB 3.0 Hub. The 7 port hub holds two other Linux Distros that I use ‘n test at various times on my ‘Rose‘ main Test Machine. Both of those are now upgraded to Fedora 38. The other upgrade of Fedora Linux was done on a converted Samsung Chromebook, i.e., now a Fedora Linux 38 Laptop/Tablet/Sketchbook — ‘Sam‘.

FlashBoot installs Windows on USB flash drives: 3.3n Pro — Part 3

August 10, 2025April 11, 2023 by Karmi

FlashBoot is still quite new to me — 3-4 days of testing ‘n using it have shown me how much I DON’T know about it, but at the same time it has continued to work amazingly well for a new user like me. 😊 Have tried different ways of installing it to a USB, and plan to even try installing it to an SSD at some point later. However, for this FlashBoot 3-part series, FlashBoot 3.3n Pro is going to be the final part. See Part 1 & Part 2 for more info.

FlashBoot installs Windows on USB flash drives: 3.3n Free — Part 2

August 10, 2025April 10, 2023 by Karmi

The FlashBoot 3.3n Free offers all that is really needed if you don’t mind customizing the Windows installation from scratch — as one would normally do. However, the FlashBoot 3.3n Pro version offers you the option of creating a “Bootable clone of Windows 8.x/10/11” — in case you would like a cloned version of the Windows setup you’re now running. The above pic shows the options that Free & Pro offer in step 3) of creating a Windows To Go USB thumbdrive. That article in listed on the main Windows 7/8/10/11 installation page — which is using an older 3.0 version, but basically the same steps. See Part 1 for differences ‘n obtaining the Free application and/or Pro zip files.

FlashBoot installs Windows on USB flash drives: Info/Prep — Part 1

August 10, 2025April 10, 2023 by Karmi

Just started using ‘n testing FlashBoot a couple days ago, but am already posting about it since it was so easy to use, and worked so well. Here’s a brief on FlashBoot:

OpenMandriva ROME 23.03

August 10, 2025April 2, 2023 by Karmi

OpenMandriva ROME 23.03 — ‘is the rolling release published by the OpenMandriva Association. ROME is designed for individual users and will have more up to date software‘. OpenMandriva had been using the fixed released model, but added the rolling release early in 2023. Have tested the fixed release OpenMandriva versions in the past, but now believe that I liked this rolling release version a little better.