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    Linux Mint Elyssa, First Look

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Thomas, Jun 9, 2008.

  1. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Mint has long been considered the most user friendly distro. Mint 5, Elyssa, is no different. It brings loads of new features, Hardware Drivers (from Ubutnu 8.04), updated versions of the Mint tools, and
    Gnome 2.22. Released yesterday(officially, that is), it is a super fast, stable, and easy distro.
    My experience has been good, the ATI driver was installed easily, after prompting me for it, wireless was a breeze, much easier then in Mint 4. When I rebooted, wireless worked perfectly, Compiz was enabled, and everything was slick, clean, and fast. If your using Mint 4 Daryna, you should upgrade to Mint 5 ASAP, it is great. Now, enjoy my gazillion screenshots, all with compiz enabled.
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    I'll give a full review later this week or early next week.
     
    Thomas, Jun 9, 2008
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  2. Gintoki

    Gintoki Notebook Prophet

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    I look forward to seeing a good review from you Tom. :D
     
    Gintoki, Jun 9, 2008
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    gobetno Newbie

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    Hello everyone!

    I am new on this forum and like many we are all looking for answers about OSes on our notebooks. Over the years I have used linux and had a somewhat bad experience a couple of years ago when I installed PCLinuxOS on my aged Toshiba notebook. Everything worked in the initial install, but when updating things got broke and I was never able to resolve the issue.

    Here I am again and this time I have installed Linux Mint (Elyssa) on that aging notebook and for the better part it is working fine. Now I have a question. Earlier today I installed SimplyMEPIS 2007 and it was great. It filled up my screen, but I noticed on the Linux Mint install that I have a display of roughly 9x7 inch and it sits squarely in the middle.

    My question is if I am limited in choice, what would you recommend for me to try to get my display to use the entire screen area instead of the smallish one being displayed?

    Your reply (ies) are appreciated.

    Ron
     
    gobetno, Jun 9, 2008
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  4. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    hmmm, pic?
     
    Thomas, Jun 9, 2008
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  5. Gintoki

    Gintoki Notebook Prophet

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    What are the specs of the laptop? Have you tried ubuntu?
     
    Gintoki, Jun 9, 2008
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