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My OS News
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:59 pm

So its been a while, but I have some updates on my OS escapades.

First, I bought a new computer (well, my wife bought it for me), its an HP a6750y, Quad-Core AMD CPU, 8g of RAM, an onboard ATI HD3200 video card (which I replaced with an old ATI X1300 Pro from my old computer), and a 750g hard-drive. It came pre-installed with Vista 64-bit Home Edition, which isnt exactly my cup of tea, but honestly I just dont have the energy to try and roll it back to XP.

Anyways, I installed Kubuntu 8.10 as a dual-boot, along with the new Windows 7 Beta. I’m loving Kubuntu, and if I can find a way to get WoW and a few other games working I’m saying goodbye to Windows. However, there has been a slight hitch. I can’t seem to get the ATI/AMD proprietary drivers to activate through the Hardware Drivers program. For some reason it just greys out the listing for the driver and does nothing else. Oh well, the fight continues. Once I get the graphics working I’ll try to get the games up and running.

Until then, I’m having fun with Kubuntu.

Filed Under computers, glitch, hardware, kubuntu, linux

 

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