“Hello from Linux! Today’s column, a follow-up to my first ‘Life
with Linux’ story, is being prepared using the KWord word processor
that’s included with the KDE desktop I installed atop Red Hat Linux
7.3 Personal Edition. So far, so good.“At the end of the last column, I was struggling with how to
change the screen resolution on my monitor. Turns out this is
managed by a piece of middleware called X Windows, familiar to all
in the Linux/Unix community. Alas, the only way to change the
screen from low-resolution 640×480 to a more useful 1024×768 was to
run a program called Xconfigurer from the command prompt. Or I
could simply reinstall the OS, which seemed like the easier way
out.“I used the opportunity to change machines, too. Moving from a
166MHz Pentium with something like 10MB RAM to a 500MHz AMD K6 with
256MB RAM had, as expected, a dramatic effect on system
performance…”
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