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How is it doing that?
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| Most impressively, the machine can flawlessly
| stream a 1280Ã528px 1536kb/s *.mkv file over my
| wireless network.
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| As a comparison, I have a Windows Vista machine
| with a 2.3GHz processor, 4GB of RAM, and a
| 512MB video card upstairs that canât play the
| same file without special codecs and the help
| of a program called CoreAVC. Even with these,
| it plays the file imperfectly.
|
| I canât explain how this is possible, but
| needless to say, I am astounded at the ability
| of Linux.
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http://thelinuxexperiment.com/guinea-pigs/jon-f/how-is-it-doing-that/
Recent:
Ubuntu Is Pretty Cool (My Linux Experiment)
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| * I had an old Windows XP laptop that was slow and
| required constant attention. One of the great
| things about almost any Linux distribution is that
| is small and efficient. It is often recommended as
| a good way to get some new life out of an older
| machine.
|
| * Ubuntu makes it easy. I picked the Ubuntu
| distribution because it was easy to figure out and
| install. The software takes you step by step
| through the process and even gives you the option
| to split your hard drive so you can have both
| Linux and Windows (or whatever) on the same
| machine.
|
| * I am not sacrificing much (if anything). As the
| title to this post suggests, Ubuntu is pretty
| cool. True, the user interface is a little
| different but, having oriented myself (and pretty
| quickly for an old guy, I am proud to say), it
| seems a little better than Windows. It does well
| all of the things my old Windows machine did
| poorly. I have faster web-browsing now through my
| trusty Firefox browser. Web apps (like Google
| Docs) are operating system agnostic and I have yet
| to run into a major plugin that is not also
| available for Linux distributions. Open Office (a
| free Office-like application) works very well with
| most of my Office files (and others). There are
| also tons of new productivity and gaming
| applications to explore as well, all with little
| (some would say no) risk of virus or malware
| infection.
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http://sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com/2009/09/ubuntu-is-pretty-cool-my-linux.html
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