Sep 22 2008
Fedora 9 with KDE4
I have been working with Linux for a while now but it has always been confined to server roles. Home installs of Linux distros have always been unstable. My first install of Linux Ubuntu started to boot into black screen after I installed some recommended updates.
My second attempt at Linux failed because the propriety driver for nvidia would give very low resolutions due to the fact that I had bought a modern graphics card.
And so my desktop has been gathering dust since I bought my Mac and only sees the light of day when I try a new version of Linux. That’s until I installed Fedora 9 and suddenly I have a fully working development environment. Compiz Fusion has taken over from Beryl and all of the drivers just worked.The only time I needed to use terminal was to get my nvidia 8800gts graphics card to work and I just had to add the livna repository to rpm.
su -c ‘rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm’
Linux is really getting there now and there is far less messing around in terminal and google trying to get things to work. All in all im happy with the install and will been using it as my main desktop moving forward.