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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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Updates – get them while they are hot

Jun18
2010 Written by Mauldor

Every once in a while it is good to make sure you have the latest software running and today was a good point in question in that there is a few programs that have been updated and worth posting about in case anybody missed them. If you are already way ahead of the game – then no worries, nothing lost here but the one’s that I have seen so far are WordPress Updating to V3 and ATI getting to 10.6 on the Drivers fron as well as NVidia if your sporting a GeForce Card.

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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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Acer Revo R3600

Feb02
2010 Written by Mauldor

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The Acer Revo R600 is what is termed a NetTop PC, this been very small form factor, cheap and low wattage desktop computer. I Spotted this on sale at ebuyer via a mail shot for £149.99. What do you get for the money? Is it a good media centre PC? Can it play games? Read on to find out more.

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Nvidia Drivers 191.07 Boost Games

Oct06
2009 Written by Mauldor

Some games now run better with updated driver from Nvidia – the latest version just hit the shelf’s – 191.07.  Nvidia has released new WHQL-certified drivers for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and Ion desktop GPUs. As always with new drivers – there is the hope that it increases the speed of games you already own.

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