How to use DOSBox to play old PC video games
If you're like me, you have a box full of old PC CD Roms of games from the early to mid 90's. These games were probably written with DOS in mind; the Windows operating systems of the day were not game oriented. In Windows 95 and Windows 98, you had the options of bypassing Windows at bootup, creating a PIF file, creating a boot disk, or exiting out of Windows altogether. While cumbersome, these options worked.
As Windows has matured, its support for games improved - but not for these older DOS based games. In fact, with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and now Window 7 - these games are pretty much unplayable, at least directly. If you've been tempted to dig into some classics from your PC gaming collection, you may want to look at DOSBox.
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Fedora 11 Post Install Items
Fedora 11 (F11) was released recently. As Fedora prides itself on installing only truly open source software, there will always be a number of post installation tasks that you might want to take once installation is complete. Here's a quick guide of the tasks I performed. Hopefully they'll help you.
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Three easy Linux Desktop Customizations (Fedora 10)
If you've just installed Linux, you've probably seen some rather customized desktop interfaces. Part of the power of Linux is the customization abilities it offers, and the desktops are no different.
In the examples (and video) that follow, I'll show you three quick tricks to make your Gnome desktop (Fedora 10 is used for the content below) come to life in a manner that personalizes things just for you.
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Getting Intel HD Audio Driver to Behave on Linux
As I've mentioned recently, I purchased a new laptop. This is my third personal laptop. Each time I tend to personalize it by making sure I can dual-boot into Windows and Linux; and each time I have a few headaches getting everything to work. Obviously, the laptop you "just bought" at Best Buy or Fry's Electronics isn't in wide use yet. Thus, the Linux community cannot address all issues on this newer hardware. This laptop was no different, as I experienced a few annoyances with the built-in Audio.
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Fedora Core 6 Tryout, ACPI issues
Fedora Core 6 was released at the end of October. I was eager to switch back to FC after my tests with Ubuntu revealed that Ubuntu just wasn't for me. (I'm sure it's a fine distribution, but I had a few small issues that prevented me from getting used to it.) FC6 has the usual "Bleeding Edge" annoyances, but there was one that caused me to give up and go back to FC5.
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Kubuntu/KDE GL Screensavers Not Filling Display
Yesterday I ranted about some detractors from the overall performance of the Kubuntu Linux distribution. There was one issue I forgot to mention. It may seem petty, but it's about screensavers. Linux always has the most appealing screen savers, so it would be nice if they operate properly. Read On.
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Kubuntu: Easy install and run, not for power user
I've been loyal to Fedora Core since it's inception. It's been one of the many mainstream user-oriented
distributions for some time now, since Red Hat focused on branding its core product to enterprise applications. Lately, when I'm Googling to solve a problem or visiting Linuxquestions.org, I've seen a growing number of people
encouraging people to use Debian-based Ubuntu. This past Labor day weekend I spent some time trying out Ubuntu.
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Knoppix (and using the Intel ipw2200 driver with it)
I've talked about a few LiveCD distributions recently. Dynebolic (aka Dyne:bolic) and Backtrack both have their strengths, but don't have the good general use qualities of well-known Knoppix.
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Quick Custom Kernel Compile on Fedora from RPM Source
A few years ago, I'd often make it a point to do a custom compile on the Linux kernel. It was good learning, and an opportunity to improve system performance. Then, for a couple of years - the stock kernel that shipped with whatever distribution I was using seemed adequate. Then I found this thread at FedoraForum.org.
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Webmin and Fedora Core 5: "su: incorrect password"
In this post, I priaised Webmin. Unbeknownst to me, I was having a problem using Webmin's "Command Shell" module.
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Dynebolic 2.0
I've previously mentioned the Dynebolic LiveCD distribution. I first heard of the distro a couple weeks ago on Newsforge. The problem was, that I downloaded version 1.4. Version 2.0 is now available for download. I tested this distro out, read on for my observations...Continue reading "Dynebolic 2.0" »
Annoying "tooltips" from gnome-power-manager, Fedora Core 5
I've been pretty happy with Fedora Core 5. I'm a guy who will use Linux pretty frequently on his laptop, so I was quick to install the new flavor of Linux at my earliest opportunity. However, Gnome now includes the gnome-power-manager, which seems to want to inform you of your battery's charge status a little too frequently.Continue reading "Annoying "tooltips" from gnome-power-manager, Fedora Core 5" »
ndiswrapper and WPA on Fedora Core 4 (FC4)
Well, finally caving - I went with using ndiswrapper so I could have WPA protection on my wireless network. Now however, I'm wondering about the impacts of ndiswrapper on OEM support for linux.Continue reading "ndiswrapper and WPA on Fedora Core 4 (FC4)" »
WG511 (Prism54/PrismGT) on Linux (Fedora Core 3)
After fiddling for a bit, I finally got my Netgear WG511 wireless PCMCIA card working on my laptop with Fedora Core 3. This was a sidetrack from my recent efforts of testing my wireless security.Continue reading "WG511 (Prism54/PrismGT) on Linux (Fedora Core 3)" »
Wireless 802.11g and Knoppix
I downloaded Knoppix today. This was the first time that I tried this distribution. Suprisingly, Knoppix 3.4 worked with a Netgear WG511 without a hitch.
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