PCLinuxOS goes the extra mile
Ever since my exploration of the various PCLinuxOS spins, I’ve been impressed with the project. Now that I’m having so much relative success with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, it’s unlikely that I will be running...
View ArticleUbuntu 8.04 — a disturbing development
My initial elation with Ubuntu 8.04′s ability to Suspend/Resume the Gateway Solo 1450 has given way to doubt. First of all, Suspend/Resume doesn’t work all of the time. I’ve had a few situations where...
View ArticleRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 — a way bigger deal than you might think
I stumbled across this on Slashdot, which led me to Red Hat’s own release on all the new things in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (and eventually in the free CentOS clone of RHEL). The most shocking:...
View ArticleDebian Lenny gets new X packages; but no help for my problem
I’ve talked for some time about the ghosting I get on the upper panel and in portions of Iceweasel/Firefox when using GNOME and Xfce in Debian Lenny. All I have to do to make the problem go away is...
View ArticleI think I’ve fixed my Ubuntu 8.04 screen/keyboard/mouse-freeze issue … but...
Every time I write about Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, which I’ve been running on my Gateway Solo 1450 laptop since its release in April, I mention that it’s the only GNU/Linux distribution I’ve used that...
View ArticleUbuntu 10.04 beta 2 with 2.6.32-20 kernel – suspend/resume appears to be...
Every Linux release, from Ubuntu Dapper and Debian Etch, all the way through the present day and my testing of the Ubuntu Lucid beta, I look to see if suspend/resume will ever work on my old laptops....
View ArticleHow to stop GNOME 3 in Fedora 19 from suspending the laptop when the lid is...
I thought you could take care of turning off suspend when the laptop lid is shut under GNOME 3 by using GNOME Tweak Tool. That doesn’t work. Automatic suspend when the lid is closed doesn’t work for me...
View ArticleSuccess: Suspend/resume with open Radeon driver in Linux on the HP Pavilion...
It’s been my holy grail in Linux ever since I started seriously using it on the desktop back in 2010. That would be working suspend/resume. WITH the open-source video drivers. First you need working...
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