My machine is a PIII with 384MB RAM so KDE and GNOME seemed quite resource hungry so I started looking at XFCE. I had a chance recently to play with 3 popular XFCE Distros (actually 4 , the excluded one is XFLD of which I have already written). They are 1.Xubuntu 6.10 2.ZenWalk 4.6.1 3.Debian [...]
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For the past 2 months, I have been using Open suse 10.2 in my laptop- Dell latitude D620. It’s a pretty decent OS. KDE is no more buggy as it used to be, no hangs and system reboots, it ran perfectly well!. Open suse is much similar to Redhat and mandriva and I didn’t feel [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The following is an easy way to configure your Mandriva, if you are planning to connect to broadband at home. The usual way is to, use Mandriva Control center –> NetWork –> Set up a New Network Interface And in the wizard like screens fill in the static IPaddress and Gateway etc. But the problem [...]
