I tried the live ISO and it all looks slick and fast and stylish on a recycled core duo 2 laptop. The main problem I have with Unity is the...
This chap needs some project management! Just pop IceWM on it with a reasonably modern theme and get the thing out of the door FFS :twisted:
Excellent, *and* you have the services of a technician. I'm sure you will find something that works for you. I asked about the video card...
Excellent, you will soon have been running 'that' box for 20 years. 'That' because as the components change, the computer becomes a new one by...
The non-free live CD works ok for a simple install on a laptop client (iwlwifi firmware, Thinkpad X200s). See...
A computer that came with the client version Windows 2000 is going to be somewhat long in the tooth now I suspect. Do people here think that...
Hello All Downloaded and installed Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 LTS beta 2 on my test laptop (X200s Thinkpad core duo 2 with Intel chipset) as I wanted to...
https://wiki.freebsd.org/SuspendResume Looks like X200 samples can suspend to RAM and resume ok, scroll down for the table of tested laptops....
Well, my X200s only has the trackpoint, no touchpad, and it appears to work the same way as on Linux. I've discovered that the keyboard layout...
Hello All 'Beginners mind': I'm trying a BSD install after years of using Linux. Similar but different to the extent that simple things seem...
http://www.centos.org/docs/4/4.5/Security_Guide/s3-wstation-privileges-limitroot-sudo.html There is a specific example on the CentOS guide page...
Hello Durad I had a play with openbsd a few weeks ago, but the deafening howl of the fans on my Thinkpad X61s and the unavailability of...
OK, so suppose I wanted to run DigiKam, Krita and Darktable, along with Jack audio, Ardour and Pure Data, PD being used in input/map/output mode...
Haven't tried any of the tiling extensions as I am on 1024 by 768 on the laptop. I just had each application full screen in its own virtual...
1989-ish Google tells me. TWM is part of X basically - you can find it on anything with an X installed. So have twm running with Vi in a terminal...
Hello All What is wrong with twm anyway 8) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8403291/twm.jpg Seriously: gNewSense looks pretty...
Hello All Anyone [else] out there trying OpenBSD? Well; this forum is titled all things UNIX, so we ought to try something that isn't GNU/Linux...
Thanks for the link. Quote from the ZDNET page... ...so basically any decent GNU/Linux or properly installed *BSD system is probably going to...
Current situation is: much improved. The CentOS mailing lists might make interesting reading this month, because of the Red Hat deal. Link below...
Hello All Another vote for Stella, or at least the Nux Desktop repository http://li.nux.ro/repos.html I use that along with EPEL and a base...
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