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My foray into Linux
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| Posted by: admin |
4/6/2007 |
I've been playing around with Linux for a few years now, mostly just to see what all the commotion was about, not to use it on a daily basis.
In the past I've loaded up Fedora and have installed later versions of it since then. It never did a very good job detecting my hardware, so things like sound and video cards had to be manually configured which usually amounted to editing conf (configuration) files--not fun.
Lately I've been playing with several other distros including Ubuntu, openSUSE, MEPIS, and PCLinuxOS.
Ubuntu 6.10 looked and behaved a lot like Fedora Core 6. It also didn't detect all my hardware. So I wasn't very impressed.
openSUSE 10.2 did a better job detecting my hardware and I liked its layout and usability better. But it did not detect my ATI Radeon 9800 out of the box so I had to install the Linux driver available from ATI (now AMD.) After that I was happy and able to set up Compiz, the 3D desktop manager.
I also tried the MEPIS 6.5 liveCD and surprisingly it did detect my video card correctly along with all my other devices. Yay! I also liked its menu layout and how it functioned. Since the video card was detected, a 3D desktop (Beryl) was also loaded automatically.
PCLinuxOS, like MEPIS, also automatically detected my video card but did not automatically enable 3D effects (both Beryl and Compiz are apparently supported in this distro.) I was able to manually enable Beryl.
At this point, I'm torn over openSUSE and MEPIS. I'm running Gnome in openSUSE but I'm starting to think I like KDE better. I'm planning on giving it a try with openSUSE soon.
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