Archive for the 'Desktop' Category
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
I am currently running the latest version of Firefox (8.0) and Google Chrome (15.0.874.121) in CentOS 6 64-bit using the Gnome 2.28 desktop.
Both work fine, however Firefox renders fonts significantly better than Chrome.
The Fix: The following steps fix the problem.
1. Open the file .fonts.conf in your home directory, if it does not exist create it:
$ […]
Posted in Desktop, Red Hat, CentOS | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
I’m migrating away from Fedora as my desktop operating system. I’ve been testing CentOS 6 which was released recently and I feel I would be much more efficient using it instead of Fedora.
I still have quite a few quirks to resolve, but I have no doubt I’ll find the solutions.
I bought a new desktop some […]
Posted in Fedora, Desktop, Opinion, CentOS | 7 Comments »
Monday, April 5th, 2010
I have been on a 3 year quest to dump my old Sony CRT monitor and replace it with an LCD monitor, but I keep getting sidetracked.
I am looking for suggestions (recommendations really) for a high end/quality LCD monitor.
Resolution must be 1920×1200 or higher (NOT 1080), and most likely 24in display.
It would be really nice […]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Desktop, Hardware | 2 Comments »
Friday, October 10th, 2008
The admins running Wikipedia are almost complete in migrating their servers from a mix of RedHat and Fedora to Ubuntu. The primary reasons behind the switch, according to Brion Vibber (Wikimedia CTO), were personal preference, Ubuntu availability on the desktop and better support/stability compared to Fedora. As a server, one might think that an enterprise […]
Posted in Fedora, Server, Desktop, Opinion, Red Hat, CentOS | 4 Comments »
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
After spending a good deal of time configuring Fedora 9 I thought I would take this opportunity to provide my thoughts and feedback. The following is my Review of Fedora 9 (F9).
“Sulphur” smells only just a little.
Installation Media
The first thing I was happy to see was that the team finally decided to offer Fedora 9 […]
Posted in Fedora, Software, Distributions, Desktop, Hardware, F9 | 7 Comments »
Monday, July 16th, 2007
As mentioned in my Fedora 7 Review, there were some ACPI regressions in functionality. The basic problem is as such: Before I hit ‘Suspend’ my mouse is working fine, however the mouse fails to activate after the computer is resumed.
To get the mouse to work again, I must run the following, after which the mouse […]
Posted in Fedora, Devices, Desktop, Hardware, F7 | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
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Posted in Fedora, Software, Distributions, Desktop, Hardware, Setup, F7 | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Dell’s IdeaStorm provided a method for Dell customers to provide feedback to the company on what consumers really wanted. Not surprisingly, the biggest request was for Dell to pre-installed Linux on their Desktops and Laptops.
Currently there are vendors who support Linux on their computers, however most of this focus has been on enterprise […]
Posted in Linux, Distributions, Desktop | 5 Comments »