Submitted by admin on Mon, 06/09/2014 - 02:49
Both Ubuntu and Linux Mint have OpenJDK in their repositories, and that should work fine for most stuff.
But when you are into serious development, especially to install the Eclipse IDE, you need Oracle Java.
To install Oracle Java 8 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty / LinuxMint 17 Qiana, use the following commands in Terminal:
Submitted by admin on Sun, 06/01/2014 - 08:25
Note: I did this for a friend's Dell Studio 1435 Laptop, while installing the latest LinuxMint 17 Qiana Mate Edition. This should work on Ubuntu / LinuxMint for any machine which has a Broadcom BCM4312 wifi (802.11b/g) adapter.
You can make sure that you have the correct device mentioned here, by typing in the following command in the Terminal:
lspci | grep -i bcm4312
It should show something like this:
