Nowadays laptops come with Dual Core Centrino processor which most of the old linux distributions doesn’t support. The other hardware areas where the older distribution fails to support are, 1. Wireless Cards. 2. USB 3. TrackPad 4. ACPI – suspend to RAM etc 5. SATA Harddrive 6. Video resolutions higher than 1024/768 To support all [...]
Archive for December, 2006
The usefulness of the application outweighs the performance impact it has on the system – a feature of a successful app.Eg Konsole is a very nice KDE application and is the only one of its kind. Stability is an area where KDE sucks and GNOME is quite stable. But I think KDE would still be [...]
The Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, I had installed in my PIII 384 MB RAM started slowing down as soon as I started using it for running my applications. There were a whole set of applications running, that I don’t even use.For eg, there where evolution , ssh-agent , getty ttys(1 to 6), openoffice etc eating up [...]
No doubt JSP code are a nightmare to work with. You miss a <TD> and there the trouble starts. Here are some life saving tips for new programmers to follow when coding JSPs, 1.Use taglibs whenever possible, but some say this has a performance overhead. But your life is happy as long as the code [...]
Mandriva 2006 was quite a good fit to Dell D620 , since the free edition could recognize the duo core processor and SATA hard disk. The only unusable hardware was the wireless device. The kernel version was bit old for the wireless driver. The resolution achievable was 1024 – 768 as X 6.9 version didn’t [...]
A brief review of Fedora core 1, Redhat 9, Mandriva 2006 and Ubuntu 6.10: Fedora Core 1 It was long back since I used this distro. The GUI part seldom worked in this version. Needless to say the looks were good. Though the GUI was colourful a lot of them didn’t work or might have [...]
