Comments on: Fedora Core 6, first impressions

By: Dave Morris

Dave Morris — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:12:07 +0000

test

By: Des Traynor

Des Traynor — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:34:18 +0000

Ditto with Niall re: GAIM, although I didn’t like it in the first place. Needs must though.

re: Vista, Vistas main requirements are RAM and a graphics card.
You can run Vista on an 800Mhz proc with 512 RAM and any Dx9 compatible graphics card.

By: Aidan Delaney

Aidan Delaney — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:18:39 +0000

Yeah, it is being farmed off to the GPU, but I didn’t expect such a major difference. Yes MS are implementing the same tech, but we demo’ed aiglx on a 600Mhz laptop (throttled at the BIOS for demo purposes) with an Intel 845G last week at linuxworld. It worked perfectly. Bet Vista won’t run on 3-year old hardware!

By: Dave Cahill

Dave Cahill — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:58:03 +0000

Re the drop in CPU and memory consumption, I presume the workload is being farmed off to your GPU and graphics memory. Similar stuff going on in Mac OS X and Vista desktops, good to see it taking off.

By: Niall M

Niall M — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:56:22 +0000

using gaim2 in edgy. whats so amazing about it?

*It doesnt flash anymore in the taskbar when a message is received.
*its tabs are annoying a fill the tab bar.
*it now has a nasty red lightbulb outline that looks like the person is not available.

these are the only things i have noticed new about it, and i dont like them.
what makes it a work of art?