Tag Archives: Windows

Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part4

Posted on 14 December, 2008 by izamryan

Awesome! I got suspend and 3D graphics working fine on the Dell E6400! Searching the Fedora / RPMFusion repositories revealed this: [izamryan@localhost ~]$ yum search nvidia | grep -i ‘driver’ : driver for NVIDIA graphic cards xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 : NVIDIA’s proprietary … Continue reading →

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Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part3

Posted on 12 December, 2008 by izamryan

OK … trying to get MS Office to run within Linux is do-able … just not easy to do for someone who doesn’t have the Office CD’s (i.e. me). I might have to drop by our local Microsoft distributor’s and … Continue reading →

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Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part2 (Updated)

Posted on 10 December, 2008 by izamryan

If you plan to use Linux on your Dell Latitude E-Series (E6400, E6500, etc), make sure you can live without suspend. 3D graphics support also seems very iffy. [Update: Both 3D graphics and suspend works now, after I installed new … Continue reading →

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Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part1

Posted on 10 December, 2008 by izamryan

Right after my laptop went blue screen of death on me … I received a replacement laptop. Unfortunately the replacement is paired off into a Windows domain that has very restrictive policies. Which means, no installing extra programs, no playing … Continue reading →

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Windows flaked out on me … perma-blue screen of death. Linux to the rescue …

Posted on 5 December, 2008 by izamryan

Just when I was stumped by Windows … it throws me the ultimate curveball, Blue Screen of Death. I was just trying (struggling more like it) to get Windows and my RoR environment to play nice (I’m using the Aptana … Continue reading →

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