Linux gOS Space 2.9: A personal review
In one of the previous posts, I mentioned that I'm using gOS Space 2.9 now in place of my PCLinuxOS 2007. After close to 3 weeks with gOS, I thought that I ought to write a simple review of the OS installed on my laptop.
For starters, I'm using a Compaq Presario V3125 (AMD Turion64 X2 TL-50) bought in Nov 2006. It has 1GB RAM, 80GB HD space, a nVidia Go6150 GPU and a Broadcom Wifi card.
I won't be writing on the installation part as it's quite simple to perform and is no different from the ones on Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS (they all install using almost similar GUIs nowadays ). Once successfully installed (I'm dual-booting with Windows XP btw and was automatically recognized by GRUB ), I enabled the Restricted Drivers under System -> Administration so that I could use my Wifi card and also my nVidia graphics card. The drivers were downloaded automatically via the net and was hassle-free. After that, I turned on Compiz and could enjoy the gorgeous 3D desktop interface that's famous with most Linux distros.
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