I was bored the other and figured I’d see how my friends on World of Warcraft were doing. I usually get daily updates through our guild forum, which is the mother of all spammers and father of all off-topic threads, but It had been a while since I played with them and it would be nice time spent idling in Undercity and talking nonsense with the guild. To take my time killing initativ even further I decided not to reboot to Windows, but have World of Warcraft run on Mandriva. Read more…
A follow-up to my article below. Here are some quick snapshots showing Mandriva running on the M50Sa with Compiz Fusion and KDE 3.5.9. Read more…
I recently replaced my old Asus M6V notebook with one of Asus’ latest 15,4” widescreen configurations, the M50Sa. My model has the Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 CPU, 3 GB of memory, 320 GB hard drive and the AMD/ATI Radeon 3650 graphics adapter (among other nifty features).
Around the time the switch was made, I was a fairly eager gamer and also wanted something that could tackle Funcom’s latest project; Age of Conan. Of course I didn’t expect my purchase to run the game at the highest possible settings, but I was confident it would deliver the performance I sought. And it does. I do not regret my choice one second, however, I’ve grown tired of gaming and that basically means the M50Sa sports a fairly higher specification than I currently need. My lack of interest in games also meant this was a good time to toss out the bundled Windows Vista and replace it with a good Linux distribution. Now, I don’t consider myself a Linux savvy person. Although I’ve made the switch from Windows several times and feel confident in my knowledge of the basics, I still wanted an easy to use distribution with as little need for extra configuration as possible. A couple of days before I decided to give Linux another shot, an article at the Norwegian technology site Hardware.no saw the light of day. It praised Mandriva for its ease of use, claiming it surpassed even Ubuntu in that particular area. With this at the back of my head, the choice was made. Besides, I’ve always been a sucker for KDE (and their fourth major release looked too slick to ignore with the new Plasma interface). Read more…