HP 520 and Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10

After some time looking for a "suitable" laptop, I decided to buy HP 520 with Intel Celeron 1.6 G, 1G RAM, 80 G Hardisk SATA, Intel 945GM Video Card, Broadcom 94311 mini PCI, 14.1" Display, DVD/CDRW.
Why I chose HP compared to Acer or Toshiba? The first reason is HP supports open source. It is proven by the support for the HP printers which I can say Linux printers. When it released new products the driver for the printers are easy to be found. So I thought it is best for me to buy HP laptop.
The second reason is that most of my friends at Post Graduate bought Acer so I want to be different from them. The third reason is because I can afford to buy the laptop. It's only 5.400.000 rupiah. That's all the money I could get.
At first I took a look at Lenovo but it was only with 512 of RAM. The second is Toshiba L25 with Vista and Acer.
So be it. Here I am with HP 520.
Fortunately, I had just received 2 CDs from Canonical. Yes, they are Gutsy CDs, i386 and 64. So I installed Gutsy on this laptop. Everything works even the Fn Keys, except the wireless LAN. So I decided to use the Ndiswrapper and now it works.
First, I connected to the internet using the Ethernet Card, update my repository and find suitable apps that I need.
You can ask me the how to of course. Just comment on this blog. OK.

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Joomla and Wordpress - Open Source Product

Meantime I am working with my school local website. At first I use Wordpress for the website but then for the main page I use Joomla. I think Joomla is a bit more attractive than Wordpress but Wordpress has its good points on especially Comments.

Quick Impression on PCLinux OS

PCLinux OS with it's motto "Radically Simple" is a really simple Linux Distro. It's not difficult to run it on my computer since it is a live cd.
We have to option on login whether to choose "guest" or "root" account. On the login display the password is displayed. Running in a guest account will not give us the install option.
It runs smoothly with KDE on my computer AMD Duron 850MHz with 512M of RAM and I've tried in AMD Athlon 1600MHz with 256 M of RAM without any problem.
Then I tried the installation and it's radically simple. The most important thing is to know about the partitioner. It took only 15 minutes to complete the installation. All operating systems are detected well and store in MBR so we can choose what to boot, including Windows.
Everything we need on basic computing is available. Office, instant messenger, PDF viewer, Multimedia (Kaffeine, KMPlayer and Mplayer, Amarok) has already installed. The multimedia codecs are quite complete.
One thing that I feel disappointed is that Kaffeine crashes when I try to play VCD. But I can play it on KMPlayer and MPlayer. For MP3 collectors, you can play your MP3 with Amarok or other video players.
To manage the computer is easy since PCLinux OS use Mandriva as the basis.
Overall it is the linux distro that is suitable for everyone, newbies or even an expert in Linux.

OpenSuse 10.2 On Relion Laptop

My school have a laptop, Relion AMD 64 1.8G with 1 G of RAM and VIA Chipset with Ralink Wireless and S3 Unichrome Pro VGA.
I decided to install OpenSuse 10.2 32 bit because I haven't got the 64bit CDs. I've got all the five CDs + 2 Add On Cds plus some packages from Linux Magazines. I chose Suse because it gives me lots of package in the cds and if I don't have internet connection I still be able to install the programs that I want. So I start intalling...
No problems from start until I see the desktop. With add on Cds I can get Helix, Java, and some other programs to run.

Suse Linux 10.1, My Experience.

This is my experience installing OpenSuse 10.1 on my computer. Great.

After waiting for so long of my download, finally I was able to burn all the isos and boot from the first CD.

It's a bit different from Suse 10.0 and it looks new to me because of the difference.

I decided to use KDE because it's more familiar for me rather than GNOME.

It's not surprising for me that I can play mp3 on this distribution because it does not include the mp3 plugin as default.

But it doesn't matter anymore to me. I've got the experience in setting up mp3 in Suse Linux since 9.3.

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Adding Installation Repositories on OpenSuse 10.1

To easily install programs on OpenSuse you can add additional repositories. Complete instructions can be found on http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories.

But some requirements needed in order to do that:

They are:

1. You have internet connection. I suggest you don't use dial up because it's going to be very slow.
2. You have to be patient to wait for YAST setting up your repository, as I experienced, it took hours to complete. If YAST feels like it freezes, it is normal so all you have to is wait.

Packman is a good source for your multimedia, guru is good too. Take a minute to read the explanation on the page I give you here.



Enjoy your being OpenSuse users.

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