im back

sorry guys. school has sucked lately. but i just installed linux mint 5 beta and i must say its pretty good! the last versions wouldn't install right on my pc so this is the first time i have used it short of a live cd. the only thing i don't like is that for some reason i cant get full transparency on the gnome taskbar. not too many bugs so its pretty stable on my system. but ill probably use this for a while so ill continue my posts here.

YAY! 100 POSTS!!

well i reached 100 posts in the ubuntu forums under the username myusername...yeah i know its been a while since i posted here but i just started football and school has been terrible...sorry

Xubuntu Gutsy vs XP Pro SP3

I recently installed both Windows Service Pack 3 RC2 and Xubuntu Gutsy and after applying speed tweaks to both of them, i did a little speed test and here are my results:

.....................................................Xubuntu,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, XP Pro SP3

Time to boot ...................................48 sec ............1 min 4 sec
Ram usage after boot ...................125 mb ..........188 mb
Ram with firefox open .................145 mb ...........206 mb
Time to shutdown ........................19 sec ..............21 sec

I personaly think that is very good for both operating systems but for now i'll go back to xubuntu for my full time os and leave XP for games.
o and by the way my xubuntu install size is only 1.7 gb!!!

Windows XP SP3

I just installed SP3 RC2 and its pretty good...not much of a difference but it shuts down/boots up faster and all my games/itunes works

Minimal Gutsy Install

Right now i am experimenting with different distros...i did a minimal gutsy install and got everything setup back to the way i had...and i got the install down to 1.7 gb and running on 140mb of ram it is awesome

Upgrade

I just recently tried out Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.... and i must say it was awesome my wireless card worked really well (in gutsy it didn't work at all i had to use ndiswrapper), except there was a memory leak for me and i don't know why. So, i went back to Gutsy and then the Usplash wouldn't start and it took forever to boot...so after some googling i found startup-manager and with some manual edits of my own i fixed it...and so having everything fixed i downloaded a script on ubuntuforums that let me download and use hardys developing kernel and after that my wireless was perfect (aside from some random ups and downs in bandwidth but its still faster than ndiswrapper)

Theme Updated

well i guess i am still working on this