It's good to be back in Linux. My SATA hard drive arrived today, first things first, shove it in and get Ubuntu on there! Much relief was felt when the install had finished and I saw Ubuntu boot from my hard drive. The SATA drive was a bit of a gamble and I wasn't 100% sure it would pay off.

My computer is now very fast, I couldn't notice it in Windows so much as I seldom run Windows on my computer anyway. For some reason Linux flys on my new rig. Firefox and OpenOffice open much faster than they do on Windows. Not sure why and I really don't care

As for games (I was stuck in Windows for three days I had to do something) my system seems to have no problems running Doom 3, Half Life 2 or Need For Speed Most Wanted all will the highest settings I throw at the box that includes full AA and AF.

Such a speedy system with Beryl is really impressive as Beryl has a new level of "smoothness". Plus kudos to nVidia for their Beta drivers which allow Beryl to run directly on X without the need for XGL or AIGLX. Installation of Beryl is now a simple task of install nVidia drivers, install Beryl, restart X, start Beryl Manager.



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achaycock Location: Joined: 16/07/06	"For some reason Linux flys on my new rig. Firefox and OpenOffice open much faster than they do on Windows. Not sure why and I really don't care" Quite simply SATA drives are significantly faster than their IDE equivalents.

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