After one year of using windows XP on my laptop, workstation and gaming machine I switched back to Ubuntu (Feisty) on my laptop. The reason behind this switch is that my laptop is a old Dell D800(4 years) and was very slow. When I installed ubuntu I was amazed! Wireless worked out of the box. [...]
Filed under: linux on April 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This should be a piece of me switching to ubuntu but… I didn’t. I installed it on my desktop to test it out. Some pro’s: I liked about ubuntu were that it booted very quickly and when I put a media in(usb,cdrom,…) it mounted automatically in nautilus. Clean polished. Sometimes I want like the windows [...]
Filed under: linux on May 6th, 2005 | No Comments »
I live in Antwerp and for the moment there are massive roadworks. They are everywhere and they are the cause my traveltime to work doubled. Just like I hate waiting in traffic I hate waiting until may PC booted. So today I start the quest to speedup this process. First off course i need some [...]
Filed under: linux on May 6th, 2005 | No Comments »
I did installed a non intrusice x on my “Sarge” debian system. It works nice with the transprancy and the drop shadows. But it need some polishing and some more stability. Afterwards I had a ubuntu install here on the desktop next to me so I tried the dropshadows and the transparancy also. Looks bit [...]
Filed under: linux on April 21st, 2005 | No Comments »
My longtime favorite windowmanager is fluxbox. Got a nice Aqua theme going on. Few nice icons on the right with idesk and on the left gkrellm. Love it clean and crisp. Got even a nice virtual desktop layout. ALT+F1 = Firefox ALT-F2 = Krusader + transparant aterms ALT+F3 = Remote desktops, vmwares, openoffice, … ALT+F4 [...]
Filed under: linux on April 14th, 2005 | No Comments »
Everything works. Got a good kernel(I didn’t compile the PC speaker). Printing works and all the other things I complained about before work too. So I’m happy and hope I never have to put in a new installation CD untill I geet a brand new laptop
Filed under: linux on December 5th, 2004 | No Comments »
I must admit. I compiled a lot of kernels when I started out with linux. But the past 2 or 3 years I didn’t do it that often anymore. When I started (RH 4.2) you needed to compile the kernel if you wanted your linux to work on your specific computer. Put from RH 7 [...]
Filed under: linux on November 2nd, 2004 | No Comments »
Ok now I’ve installed cups in my machine, but thunderbird won’t print with it. U got it working on my previous debian installation. Can’t find the problem, need some more testing. Hopefully I can recompile my kernel this week. For the moment I can’t use cpufreq and the fans are making me nervous I’ll compile [...]
Filed under: linux on October 18th, 2004 | No Comments »
I liked gentoo, but it isn’t workable. My laptop was always compiling something and each time I had to fix something. It was nice to work with all latest sources, something you never have in debian But I need to be sure when I’m at a customer I got a working laptop with X on [...]
Filed under: linux on October 12th, 2004 | No Comments »
I keep on compiling. But I just like it. I just got the things I need and nothing more: “less is more”. This means more speed and exactly knowing where is what. Thanks to good documentation is it easy to configure.
Filed under: linux on October 6th, 2004 | No Comments »