October 11, 2007 —
The first thing I did was to get the wireless network going. I am aware that F8 ships with a new
driver
October 10, 2007 — I decided to give Fedora 8 test 3 a spin to decide what is new and how it stacks up to Fedora 7. By and large I would say that there are definite improvements and there are still some disappointments which may be fixed by the time F8 goes production. This version is the feature freeze version and from now till its release, ....more....
July 3, 2007 — As I mentioned in the previous page, the wireless installation went OK. I was now ready to take the plunge and apply the solution to installing the ATI proprietary drivers and get direct rendering. ....more....
July 2, 2007 — I finally decided to do a review of Fedora 7. I think by now everyone is already aware of the fatal issue with the ATI driver fglrx and Fedora 7. I posted about the issue on the Fedora Forum. ....more....
May 6, 2007 — Now that Fedora 7 Test 4 has been out for a couple of week,
I decided it was time to publish
my first impressions about it. So, I downloaded the dvd ISO and burnt it on to a disk. I ran
May 6, 2007 — As I mentioned in the previous page, the installation and first boot all went well. I like the new look and feel and life is good so far. I then decided to shut down and do my usual ritual, install ndiswrapper and the ATI drivers. ....more....
March 24, 2007 — You may have noticed that the Fedora kernel tends to get updated quite often. Grepping through the yum logs revealed no less than 8 updates since November 13th, 2006. So for those who have opted to use software that is not automatically updated every time .....more ....
March 24, 2007 — Now we proceed with installing the video driver. Note that the drivers currently at the ATI homepage will not work with the latest Fedora kernels. As I said in the last part of this post, Michael Larabel has been kind enough .....more ....
January 28, 2007 — There have always been some issues with using the 64 bit firefox browser on Fedora Core. Mostly these issues have to do with the lack of plugins for the browser and with good reason. I have also written about this issue in the past. Well I can now say that the situation has improved .....more ....
December 17, 2006 —Well, finally!!! We now have 3D! Well, I must say that, that was a nice holiday surprise from ATI. ATI has finally fixed the problem with their driver and I am happy to say that the latest drivers from ATI work with the dv8000 without any changes in the BIOS, .....more ....
November 19, 2006 — A constant question that comes up with 64 bit Fedora Linux is the availability of software. People usually bemoan the dearth of choices in 64 bit software. Well, Firefox comes in 64 bit -- so we don't have a problem as far as browsing is concerned. However, one problem is that some of the standard browser plugins .....more ....