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Carlos Villela

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Carlos Villela is a Java developer working mostly with web technologies and AOP.
More Debian and Gnome coolness Posted: Jul 28, 2003 4:31 PM
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I'm still on a honeymoon with my Linux setup in this laptop. Despite still having loads of trouble trying to make some parts work (the usual suspects: modem, sound, usb, firewire, dvdrw...), I'm loving this Gnome thingie more and more.

Today I decided I'd put my video card to work well under X - with proper drivers, instead of the generic VESA one. After some two or three google searches, I found that I needed to upgrade my X installation. Fair enough.... I went to www.apt-get.org, looked for a shiny experimental build of XFree86 4.3.0, and loaded it up. Changing "vesa" to "radeon" in /etc/X11/XFree86Config-4 worked the first time I tried it. Sah-weeet!

So, fellas, if you are willing to buy a new laptop, take a good look at those Sony Vaios. So far, this PCG-GRV680 with Gnome 2 and Debian is definitely beating the living shit out a PowerBook with MacOS X in speed and I-can-get-stuff-done-with-it-ability, and costed something like $500 less than an Apple laptop with roughly the same features.

PS: Ok, Mac zealots, you can start with the threatening and finger-pointing now... but if you want to talk about eye-candiness, is your mouse cursor translucent? I don't think so :)

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