[TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway

[Cristóbal Palmer]

Beryl works on this ThinkPad T41 I'm using. I followed the
instructions in the beryl wiki.* The wiki seems to have gotten a
facelift since I was last there. Hopefully the content is as clear and
helpful as ever.

Cheers,
CMP

* http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Ubuntu

On 3/28/07, Magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
> jason at monsterjam.org wrote:
> > actually I downloaded the newest beta based on the Fiesty fawn and it looks pretty cool.
> > It runs as a live cd as well.. It picked up my cisco wireless card just fine. Didnt do
> > hardware accelerated X, but it looks pretty well integrated with XFCE. I might end up using
> > it on the wifes computer.
>
> Once you install it to your hard disk, getting any of the Ubuntu flavors
> to do hardware acceleration is easy.  Well, at least with nvidia anyway.
>
> http://ubuntuguide.org has a wiki that guides you through a lot of these
> common tasks that you want to do as soon as you have the OS installed.
>
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Cristóbal M. Palmer
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