Monthly Archives: September 2009

ThinkPad T500: Initial Fedora Report – Marvelous!

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Peter

Well, after receiving my ThinkPad T500, I set about tweaking the pre-installed Windows Vista, and spent most of the weekend attempting to get it dual-booting Vista and Fedora nicely. For better or worse, neither Fedora’s GRUB nor Windows’ BCD bootloader … Continue reading →

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Fedora 11: Recent X.org/Intel 965 Update Breakage

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Peter

Those who have compiz (“Desktop Effects”) enabled on 965 GPUs should be very wary of today’s xorg-x11-server-1.6.3-4.fc11 (FEDORA-2009-8766) update. For some reason or another, it makes Compiz prone to crashing when starting up. The solution to this is to revert … Continue reading →

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