“A friend asked me to install Linux for him several weeks ago.
He got curious after seeing Compiz Fusion in action on YouTube.
Since I finally had a lot of free time last weekend, I agreed to
install Linux for my friend.“The first thing that I considered before the installation was
of course choosing the right distribution for him and his machine.
The first distro that came to my mind is OpenSuse 10.3.
That’s right. I know it messed up my main
workstation but I wanted to give it a chance as it might properly
work on other hardware configuration…”
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