Computer Science Mojo

Enable extra monitors or dual screens for Debian xfce in VirtualBox

If you enabled 3D acceleration for a VirtualBox guest, and Chrome starts flickering in that guest. Go into Chrome's Advanced settings and disable "Use hardware acceleration when available" to solve the problem

Forget about fancy desktop environments and do a clean install of the awesome windows manager i3 on Debian 8.

Set up a Server in your VirtualBox in a few simple steps so you can fire it up whenever you need it, or simply use it as a playground for your VPS. A Nginx server is small, efficient, and easy to use.

Install Guest Additions for Debian to enable full screen display and more.

When creating a new virtual machine in VM VirtualBox, the network is set to NAT by default, and most of the time, you should have internet connection right away; but what are all the options and how do we choose among them?

Upon initial installation of Cinnamon in VM VirtualBox, you might encounter the pop up window "Cinnamon running without video hardware acceleration"

Debian without a desktop environment is simple, clean and full of potential. It is the ideal set up for installing your own choice of desktop environment that doesn't come with the Debian installer, or for setting up a Debian server.