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Hi Alex,<br>
<br>
I have a desktop with an ATI Radeon card, which I use with openSUSE
Linux and dual monitors. Unfortunately the open-source Radeon
drivers don't handle multiple monitors or 3D very well. As a result
I use the ATI Catalyst Proprietary Display Driver, which works very
well for both 3D performance and using dual monitors. While it's not
ideal from a free software perspective, it sure beats using
Microsoft Windows.<br>
<br>
You can find the drivers here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx">http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx</a><br>
(one thing to note: you do have to re-install this after kernel
upgrades)<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Ross.<br>
<br>
<br>
On 20/07/11 06:48, ALEX ARMANI wrote:
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I've been running 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium on a late
2o1o 3.2 GHz. Dual Core Athlon with 3 gigs of RAM, 32o gig
hard drive. The Acer Aspire 5551 {A crackin' li'l' laptop
for the price!} since February 2o11 having run Linux only
mostly Ubuntu Studio but also Desktop dual booting always 64
bit for 3 years, having run XP Pro prior to that never XP
Home or Vista. Now got Windows 7 Home Premium free with my
laptop. Bought and paid for. For home use. Mostly Facebook
games, java, flash and general web surfing. Running </span> Propriety
ATI Radeon drivers, and it's only BLUE SCREEN OF DEATHED on me
once and that was last Saturday all updated installed fine
registry clear fast and responsive. Running Google Chrome 12
with propriety Adobe Flash driver. DVD and MP3 codecs
installed. Libre Office. Defragged. And it's brilliant. And I
have a second crt screen plugged in so a window which is 1280
* 1o24 on the right and 1366 * 768 on the widescreen. And HDMI
output for the 47" Panasonic LCD. Just need an HDMI lead. Two
different pictures on each screen both 32 bit colour. Now try
whatever I run on Linux. Ubuntu Linux that is, I cannot get
the external 19" CRT screen to display in bigger than 1o24 *
768 and that was with the same image on both displays. And
that is the reason I choose to run Windows 7 Home Premium at
home, but for work I recommend 64 bit Ubuntu Studio always.
Google Chromium is always faster on Linux. And that is the
reason why I choose to run Linux. Ubuntu for web browsing. I
run 64 bit Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium on my laptop and
64 bit Canonical Ubuntu Studio 11.o4 Linux {The Natty Narwhal}
on my tower. And 32 bit Microsoft XP Pro on my 32 bit Celeron
spare tower. Full clean install last Saturday with all the
correct drivers. Spend most of my time using the laptop
really. XP Pro only for my old webcam (which is incompatible
with Windows 7 for my security system and so that I can see my
animals on the web when I am away from home working. Canonical
Ubuntu Studio 64 for all audio / media work. And speedy
browsing. Microsoft Windows XP Pro for emergency use only when
resetting. To be honest if i was given 64 bit Windows 7 free I
would choose to install it, but if the option was a 64 bit
Ubuntu Linux 11.o4 or a pirated version of Windows XP that
worked with no problems or a 64 bit free trial of Microsoft
Windows 7 Ultimate Edition that would stop working after one
month unless you paid money for a serial number. , I'd choose
any Linux distribution. 64 bit Ubuntu Studio is what I ran for
3 years. From The Intrepid Ibex, through Jaunty Jackalope,
Karmic Kuala, Lucid Lynx, Maverick Meerkat I had no problems.
I chose to run proprietry drivers with NVidia drivers for the
half gig spec graphics card I had bought which had a 512Mb
84oo graphics processor. System was always smooth, always
responsive, rarely crashed and was always available. WiFi
straight into the router which is hardwired into the tower. I
need to buy a Ethenet came or go see my parents cost I've got
two there i lent my dad. Having said that never had any
problems using the wifi drivers on Ubuntu ever. The question
was about Windows 7 though because we all know how brilliant
Linux is! Especially Ubuntu or even KDE these days if you're
moronic. Morninc? Is that the right word in the UK? A morning
person. ;) If it was free, would i choose to run it? Well now,
Microsoft have finally released a free virus checker to keep
your system clean and data safe, and you can still get the
Zone Labs ZoneAlarm firewall for free, and even if you choose
to pay, or trial a different security software supplier every
month it is still only £3o of so a year which is not a lot of
money. I just installed ZoneAlarm and the Microsoft Essential
Securty, and had no proplems or no issues after having run
Kaspersky and Eset Nod32 on month trials. If I had to pay I'd
choose Eset Nod32 over all the others for complete protection
but I got Microsft Security Essentials for free for my
Anti-Virus solution and ZoneLabs oneAlarm for my firewire and
that was free. So I had more money to buy my friends beer.
Free as in beer yes! And from freedome, came elegance. LX OS
4:2o v12.12 The Pathist Psychotic Piranha has gone RC! Release
Candidate not Roman Catholic silly! Sorry where was I? For
networking I have also found it excellent. Never down. Fast,
always responsive. I chose to install Libre Office for all the
other work. No complaints brilliant and better than having
Microsoft Office free trial for a month! All in all, fully
recommend it, for home use. And enterprise? Well, that one is
easy too. Any Linux distribution will always win over a 32 bit
XP Pro instalation.
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<div style="line-height: 17px;">So, to conclude I rank them in
order. In last place come Microsoft with Vista, and they've
also got second last place with XP Pro SP3. Then we have
Apple with MacOS. And then in a tie for first place for home
and work use we have 64 bit Ubuntu Studio with and 64 bit
Windows 7 Home Premium. Other OS exprimented with include a
32 Fedora 10 {Fine for internet use but I could never manage
to get it to play mp3's or dvd's!} on a 32 bit AMD Athlon XP
processor, and a 32 bit XP Home briefly on a 32 bit Intel
Celeron with 1 gig ram, For Enterprise always choose /
advise the latest Ubuntu over the latest Windows., and you
will always be sucessful and never be fired / unhappy! And 7
Home Pemium for occasional home use. Jennifer also
recommends a 64 bit Linux Ubuntu Studio install too, and she
is a rodent. So it must be good! ;)</div>
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