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Fedora 13 vs Linux Mint 10 RC

Oct24
2010 Written by Mauldor

I have a desktop machine which I use purely for Linux, the specifications are Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz, 5GIG Ram, 80Gig Hard Drive, 19″ Widescreen TFT and nVidia 7600GT Graphics card. The on-board network has failed and it has an Intel gigbit server card installed (which Windows 7 will not recognise) and a PCI 54G Wireless Card. I had tested Fedora 13 on VMWare and liked the look of it – I set about wiping the present Ubuntu 10.10 and wanted to use Fedora instead on this machine – this is were it started to go wrong..

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Dell C840 Laptop – Another Linux Fail

Mar30
2010 Written by Mauldor

I dug out yet another Old Laptop – this time A Dell Latitude C840. The Tech specs I shall post in one second but for this exercise, I choose to download Ubuntu 10.04 Beta One (been new and all) and went to work installing Ubuntu plus working with Compiz to give me a radical 3D Desktop – this was not to be as you shall soon find out..

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Linux as the Main OS

Jul15
2009 Written by Mauldor

Can Linux (in this case Ubuntu) be installed on a machine, use all of the Ram, have better graphics and be able to do everything you require without any major hangups or having to jump to the console to perform black magic? I shall go through how it has worked out so far on a Laptop running 64Bit version and used on everything that I do to see how to copes.

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