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Install BURG in Ubuntu Lucid

Install BURG in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) BURG if you didn’t notice is GRUB backwards and actually stands for “Brand-new Universal loadeR from GRUB” which was probably decided a while after picking the letters.. Basically though it’s a much nicer looking alternative to the very dated looking GRUB bootloader. Installation Until only recently it’s seemed far too much hassle of installing something which only gets displayed for a couple of seconds at boot and isn’t seen again unless something goes wrong, but now that a PPA has been created for it (for Lucid anyway) it seems like its worth the very little bother. First add the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bean123ch/burg Now type the following to install the loader, emulator and some themes: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install burg-pc burg-themes burg-emu You’ll be prompted to do some configuration settings in order for it to install, for these I just hit enter for each with the default to options however make sure to double ...

Install BURG in Ubuntu Lucid

Install BURG in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) BURG if you didn’t notice is GRUB backwards and actually stands for “Brand-new Universal loadeR from GRUB” which was probably decided a while after picking the letters.. Basically though it’s a much nicer looking alternative to the very dated looking GRUB bootloader. Installation Until only recently it’s seemed far too much hassle of installing something which only gets displayed for a couple of seconds at boot and isn’t seen again unless something goes wrong, but now that a PPA has been created for it (for Lucid anyway) it seems like its worth the very little bother. First add the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bean123ch/burg Now type the following to install the loader, emulator and some themes: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install burg-pc burg-themes burg-emu You’ll be prompted to do some configuration settings in order for it to install, for these I just hit enter for each with the default to options however make sure to double ...

Install BURG in Ubuntu Lucid

Install BURG in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) BURG if you didn’t notice is GRUB backwards and actually stands for “Brand-new Universal loadeR from GRUB” which was probably decided a while after picking the letters.. Basically though it’s a much nicer looking alternative to the very dated looking GRUB bootloader. Installation Until only recently it’s seemed far too much hassle of installing something which only gets displayed for a couple of seconds at boot and isn’t seen again unless something goes wrong, but now that a PPA has been created for it (for Lucid anyway) it seems like its worth the very little bother. First add the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bean123ch/burg Now type the following to install the loader, emulator and some themes: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install burg-pc burg-themes burg-emu You’ll be prompted to do some configuration settings in order for it to install, for these I just hit enter for each with the default to options however make sure to double ...

Install BURG in Ubuntu Lucid

Install BURG in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) BURG if you didn’t notice is GRUB backwards and actually stands for “Brand-new Universal loadeR from GRUB” which was probably decided a while after picking the letters.. Basically though it’s a much nicer looking alternative to the very dated looking GRUB bootloader. Installation Until only recently it’s seemed far too much hassle of installing something which only gets displayed for a couple of seconds at boot and isn’t seen again unless something goes wrong, but now that a PPA has been created for it (for Lucid anyway) it seems like its worth the very little bother. First add the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bean123ch/burg Now type the following to install the loader, emulator and some themes: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install burg-pc burg-themes burg-emu You’ll be prompted to do some configuration settings in order for it to install, for these I just hit enter for each with the default to options however make sure to double ...