John Boyle wrote:
Scott Castaline wrote:
John Boyle wrote:
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Scott Castaline wrote:
Dave Craven wrote:
Also, OpenOffice is included with many linux distros, so the
installation issues are simply not there.
Good Point. Also probably why there were fewer downloads for
Linux than Mac. That surprised me at first.
Not all of us Linux users settle for their distro version. There
have been a few comments about how certain distros tend to "break"
OOo in customizing it for their release. I myself usually prefer
the original straight from OOo, although for now I admit I'm using
the one that comes from Fedora 9, but will probably switch later on.
In early 64-bit versions of Fedora, there were 64-bit released
issues so I needed to use the official release. In Fedora-8, I
needed to use the Fedora release because of an issue supporting
java. Now, in Fedora-9, I need to use the official release because
of a bug relating to macros.
To Andrew Pitonyak: There is also the issue of the NVIDIA drivers,
which does not seem to be a concern to the developers, although Ver.
10 is supposed to address that problem. I hope so! I use ver. 8
whitch works well with NVIDIA drivers, which I cannot figure out why
ver. 9 does not! :-(
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As I use nvidia drivers, what issue are you referring to in F 9? I
don't seem to be running into anything other than blanking off my
screen (video is actually shutting off), even though power save is
disabled, however I don't use all of the special video affects that
the newer drivers are supposed to be capable of.
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To Scott Castalne, et al: I have been led to believe that Fedora 9
does not like NVIDIA drivers very much! I gather it depends on whether
you are a Linux guru or not, as I am not and I get my blood pressure
too high with frustration so I will wait until the issue is cleared
up. I also understood that either a later issue of
Fedora 9 or even Fedora 10 may cure the problem. Please correct me if
I am wrong and maybe we can work to get this issue worked out in
regards to my Linux computer? :-\
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I haven't run into any problems, but then I believe that the problems is
with the special "eye candy" and desktop effects. As I don't use that,
(I've read that it really sucks up memory) and my eVGA board is low end
nvidia, I wouldn't run into problems. I am having a problem with the
video shutting off as though I have that function enabled in power
management. As I don't, I'm not sure whether it's a software issue
unique to nvidia or it could be the card itself. As I've said it's a
cheapie, but it gives me my DVI connection on a PCI bus, since I don't
have the newer PCI xpress on my Mobo. As far as having a smooth
experience with Linux, I would say that you may be better off checking
out Ubuntu. I just introduced my son to it and so far he really likes
it, having been an M$ user. Fedora tends to be a little bleeding edge
and caters to a more techie type, although that seems to be slowly
changing. Still bleeding edge, but it seems more plug n' play than it
used to be. Oh another thing, I'm not a game player, so I wouldn't run
into any demanding graphics situations. It does display mpeg video very
nicely though.
Sorry for the long winded reply, it runs in the family, all in da genes.
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