blog.joaomorais.com » Fedora http://blog.joaomorais.com Blog about software development, personal projects and development tools. Mon, 10 Apr 2017 02:26:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Xubuntu 8.10 http://blog.joaomorais.com/xubuntu-810/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=xubuntu-810 http://blog.joaomorais.com/xubuntu-810/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:32:07 +0000 João Morais http://solidlocker.webhs.org/wordpress/?p=75 Great news, Xubuntu 8.10 was released last week.

Although I’m a big fan of Fedora I wasn’t very happy with the lack of speed while running a few applications, then I’ve decided to try a different Linux distribution.

The first one that I thought it would be a good alternative was Ubuntu, but after reading a couple of threads, I’ve finally decided to get Xubuntu.

Xubuntu is an official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system and it uses the Xfce desktop environment.

My laptop is running Xubuntu since last Friday and it’s very stable, one of the things that made me very happy, considering that I have an ATI Graphics Card (9200 series), was 3D support being enabled out of the box.

I’m also loving Xfce, I thought it would be minimalistic but it has great potential.

Another thing that I really appreciate is the speed of Synaptic while listing/installing new packages.

When I was using Fedora that was one of the turn offs because Pirut was slow and most of the times it didn’t allowed me to see the package installation process because it used to freeze all the time.

If you can’t waste much time in instalation processes and your system is getting old.. this is the right distribution for you!

]]> http://blog.joaomorais.com/xubuntu-810/feed/ 1 Gnome took the weekend off… http://blog.joaomorais.com/gnome-took-the-weekend-off/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gnome-took-the-weekend-off http://blog.joaomorais.com/gnome-took-the-weekend-off/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:42:53 +0000 João Morais http://solidlocker.webhs.org/wordpress/?p=40 Last week I’ve been installing and uninstalling stuff from my laptop trying to enable my webcam on Linux, unfortunately with no success.

If anyone has some informations on it tell me something, it’s a Lifetech FlexCam 760MP.

In the meanwhile last Friday I went to Évora and turned my laptop off.

Yesterday I got back, turned my laptop on, and for my surprise Gnome was gone too.. maybe he decided to take the weekend off.

It seems that something got screwed up while I was trying to enable my webcam and I didn’t noticed it till then.

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Yesterday I’ve downloaded it and burned it into a DVD. A couple of minutes ago I tried to install it with no success, since it kept giving me kernel panic when booting:

VFS: Cannot open root device “<NULL>” or unknown-block(253,0)
Please append a correct “root=” boot option.

Since I haven’t much time to spend on this at the moment, I decided to re-install Fedora 8. For my surprise it kept crashing on /sbin/loader while booting from DVD.

Am I lucky or what?

After reading a couple of posts at Fedora Forum I found a solution for this problem.

When booting, press:

<tab>

Then write:

linux acpi=off apm=off pci=noacpi

And that will solve the problem, it won’t hang up on /sbin/loader any more.

In conclusion… ain’t got Fedora 9 installed yet, but I will when I have time to spend on it.

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