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Intel Graphic cards, Linux, Xorg and UXA performance boost

For people having Intel graphic chipset under Gnu/Linux, performance using 3D applications or Compiz-* window manager effects has always been a problem. Intel drivers for Xorg never gave problems but have also never been brilliant. I always looked around searching for xorg.conf tuning configuration entries. Today I was simply browsing Ubuntu Wiki and discovered the

How to have both Mac Os X and Linux installed and share the same home directory files

So much time since my last post! I’m sure that the best way to come back to blog posting is a nice tutorial. I’m going to write how to have the same home directory shared between Mac Os X and Gnu/Linux. Let me call Gnu/Linux just Linux from now on. A unique place for your

Fedora 10, thank you very much! (macbook review and fixes)

I’ve never been a big fan of rpm-based Gnu/Linux distributions, since I’ve always preferred the stability of Debian and Debian based distros, with their great dpkg system. The problem with Debian on Macbooks is that I do not see both the stability and performance anymore, as I have to use Lenny/Sid. Etch is too old

Testing Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) beta on a Macbook (updated!)

It’s a very long time since I abandoned Ubuntu, 1 year and 9 months being precise, although I continued to use Ubuntu derived distros. I decided today to give Ubuntu 8.10 beta a try. Obviously, every time I decide to try a Gnu/Linux distribution it happens that a new release comes out: I downloaded Alpha

Installare OpenGEU su Macbook

Ho appena pubblicato sul Wiki italiano di OpenGeu una guida su come installare OpenGEU su un Macbook. Estratto dall’introduzione: Questa guida vi aiuterà ad installare OpenGEU e qualsiasi altra distribuzione basata su Ubuntu sul vostro Macbook / Macbook Pro. La stessa Ubuntu è installabile seguendo questa guida. L’how-to è mirato a come partizionare l’hard disk

How to install OpenGEU on Macbook

Introduction This guide will help you to install OpenGEU and every other Ubuntu based linux distribution on your Macbook (either “normal” or pro). Even Ubuntu will work with this how-to. The tutorial is aimed on how to succesfully partition the hard disk and to correctly boot the distribution. For a better post-install configuration I suggest