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| Darren:
Well I'll be slapped across the face with a wet kipper, Using Gmail of late I've had to revert back to the old basic set-up, no colour, no fancy gizmos etc because with their latest incarnation I just couldn't get it to load before it timed out With Linux in full mode Gmail is loading in a flash, it's instant... Vista was a memory hog, it never released memory when programs were shut down. Even on boot-up with no open programs it hogged 65% of my laptops 2Gb memory. I've been playing about with Linux, opening this and that etc and currently it's using 26% of memory. Conclusion, Vista is dire .... I hadn't realised just how bad it was ..... |
| CrewCab:
Your a dam good salesman Darren :coffee: ................. I'm currently downloading Linux Mint 7, though it's got an hour or two to go yet (1Gb Broadband is as good as it gets here :zap: ) I'll try and give it a go at the weekend. CC |
| Stefan Pynappels:
Glad you're liking it Darren, it is the one I tend to recommend for Linux newbies now as it is a nice gentle introduction to it. Plus it is based on Ubuntu, which we use as our server distro too, so I'm familiar with it's CLI too. I've installed it on the laptop my wife uses for her email and browsing and she loves its speed, she doesn't miss Windows at all. I have to use all three flavours (Win, Lin and Mac) for work so for me it is just what falls to hand first. CrewCab, I hope you are as impressed as darren is with it. |
| Darren:
One issue has cropped up, I loaded Skype and called up John/Bogs Can type to each other ok, but no voice calling. Seems to be my sound, looked into it as best I could but couldn't seem to resolve the issue. As I'm only running off the CD I'm thinking it could be a simple as needing to install linux to my HD. Any tips would be really appreciated :thumbup: |
| Stefan Pynappels:
--- Quote from: Darren on October 22, 2009, 04:32:34 PM ---One issue has cropped up, I loaded Skype and called up John/Bogs Can type to each other ok, but no voice calling. Seems to be my sound, looked into it as best I could but couldn't seem to resolve the issue. As I'm only running off the CD I'm thinking it could be a simple as needing to install linux to my HD. Any tips would be really appreciated :thumbup: --- End quote --- Have you got any sound at all? It might be resolved when you do a full install and enable all the repos so your soundcard can be recognised and the driver package can be installed. Check for any issues with your specific sound card too, although I have not been able to find many cases of this. |
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