And I am using gOS’ version of Gparted to partition the hard drive on which I will eventually install gOS. I haven’t yet used the Gparted from a Ubuntu-derived live CD, since I have Puppy for that purpose. But since the version of Gparted on the last few versions of Puppy Linux have taken up [...]
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I’m a sucker for a Linux or BSD distro with a live CD. Even if you can’t do an install directly from the disc, at least you can figure out whether the damn thing will boot and how your hardware will react when it does.
One of my favorites, ZenWalk, just released Zenwalk 4.8 Live. [...]
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I know what you’re saying, “Why not try Fedora 8?” Well, I already had Fedora 7 burned, so I figure I’d try it.
This is all specific to the Gateway Solo 1450 laptop, so here’s the quick analysis on how they booted:
Neither managed the fan (big detriment). CentOS 5 does control this fan, and that makes [...]
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