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openSUSE Installation, DVD vs. LiveCD
Blog I added several more Linux distributions (it now multi-boots Windows XP Professional, Ubuntu, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, openSUSE and Fedora). You can not simply boot and run openSUSE from the DVD in the way that you can from the LiveCD, so if your...
[January 5, 2009, 14:16]
Chip makers release driver source code
News Although chip vendors such as Intel and ATI Technologies support Linux, they only offer graphics drivers for two of the major commercial Linux distributions, Red Hat and SuSE, according to the Intel and ATI Web sites.
[April 14, 2005, 15:00]
openSolaris 2008.11
Blog I have been wanting to look into something other than the mostly Debian-derived Linux distributions I've tried recently. None of the Linux distributions I have installed are using that any more - a few have still got 1.4, most have 1.5, and Ubuntu...
[March 20, 2009, 12:13]
HP "Entertainment PC" Revisited
Blog The two which had Linux preloaded were both rather old SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) systems, which worked reasonably well, but were nowhere near as complete or pleasant as the newer Linux distributions that I loaded.
[September 29, 2009, 14:27]
Fedora 11
Blog The display in particular seems very sluggish; admittedly, that system only has an Intel 950 display controller, but Fedora is noticeably slower on screen updates and such than any of the other Linux distributions I have loaded on it.
[June 28, 2009, 8:18]
PCLinuxOS 2009.1 Released
Blog For Gnome fans, there is also a community-developed Gnome edition - but I would point out that PCLinuxOS is one of the very few KDE-based distributions that I am able to use reasonably well, so even Gnome die-hards might want to give the KDE...
[March 13, 2009, 13:45]
Linux picking up its game
News Also, by adding hardware-accelerated OpenGL as a basic feature of X-Windows, Xfree86 4.0 will ensure future Linux distributions from major vendors -- such as Red Hat, Corel, and Suse -- will automatically create game-ready Linux PCs.
[February 4, 2000, 7:26]
HP Pavillion dv2-1010ez Entertainment Notebook
Blog More on this in the future, as I gain more experience with it, and some new distributions come out which will (hopefully) support the Atheros wireless card.jw 20/9/2009 I then set about installing (or trying to install) various Linux distributions.
[September 20, 2009, 9:12]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment Seriously, the problem has S2110 (ATI) problem has appeared with the Mandriva 2009.0 distribution, the 2008 distributions installed just fine - and I suspect that is why PCLinuxOS still installs smoothly on it, because it doesn't look to me as if...
[December 18, 2008, 7:15]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog A comment from Tezzer to my recent blog post about Two New Linux Beta Distributions got me thinking. Tezzer mentions using Debian, but looking at PCLinuxOS and others for systems that have "issues" with some Linux distributions.
[December 15, 2008, 10:12]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog Comment You are correct, of course, about degrees of "freedom" in various distributions, and sometimes even within the same distribution, which can be a major factor in making a choice. Likewise, it works flawlessly on my Lifebook S2110, which has the...
[December 16, 2008, 7:37]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog If you're interested in new Linux distributions, here are a couple of new Betas that I have taken a quick look at: Hopefully by the time the final VectorLinux 6.0 release is available they will either have a choice between LILO and GRUB (a couple...
[December 12, 2008, 9:37]
Nvidia tool enables Linux auto-update
News For all your GNU/Linux and open source news, from the latest kernel releases to the newest distributions, see ZDNet UK's Linux News Section. Nvidia and graphics chip rival ATI Technologies have shown increasing support for Linux over the past year...
[March 31, 2003, 14:35]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog Comment You have left 4 important considerations out of your grouping of GNU/Linux distributions, which plays a big role in how people decide which distribution: Most of the world doesn't have the luxury of broadband internet, nor the patience to...
[December 16, 2008, 7:36]
Linux serves up triple threat
News Red Hat, Novell's SuSE Linux, Debian and other Linux distributions had released fixes by Thursday morning. The third flaw affects the module for the kernel that supports ATI Technologies' Rage 128-bit video card.
[February 20, 2004, 8:05]
Three SMALL Linux Distributions
Blog The first thing you need to do when you start considering small Linux distributions is decide what your priorities are - what do you need it for and what are you planning to do with it? There are a number of different small/mini/tiny/whatever...
[January 16, 2009, 13:59]
SimplyMEPIS 8.0 Released
Blog Even the display driver came closer to being right than any of the other Linux distributions I have installed - it configured the display for 1280x800. I have now also installed SimplyMEPIS 8.0 on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 (Intel) and my Fujitsu...
[February 24, 2009, 9:26]
The Jaunty Jackalope is on the Way
Blog When you have a multi-boot Linux setup, as I do, the other (older) distributions are not able to understand the ext4 file system. Update: Whoops, sorry, I was wrong about some older Linux distributions supporting the ext4 filesystem.
[January 19, 2009, 16:15]
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) Released
Blog I suspect that this release will open the gates for a number of other releases, as various Linux distributions have been in "Waiting for Lenny" mode.jw 16/2/2009 Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110: AMD Turion 64 CPU, ATI display controller.
[February 16, 2009, 13:03]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment "The best news for me is that it installs flawlessly on my Lifebook S2110, without stumbling over the ATI display adapter as the new Mandriva release does. How's Mandriva stumble? Sorry if we covered this before.
[December 18, 2008, 5:33]
