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+author: einar
+comments: true
+date: 2008-09-13 21:24:35+00:00
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+slug: new-pc-at-last
+title: New PC, at last
+wordpress_id: 448
+categories:
+- General
+tags:
+- Final Fantasy XI
+- hardware
+- Linux
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+All right, it didn't quite turn out as I had expected. This post wasn't "soon"as I predicted originally. The reason? The fact that the video card I bought died after three days of usage, and getting a replacement took a while. Finally though, I have a functional system. It's a Core 2 Duo CPU (7200) with 2 Gb of RAM and an ATI Radeon 3870 HD video card. 
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+I installed Linux on it, of course, but instead of Kubuntu I gave [openSUSE](http://en.opensuse.org) a try. It's quite polished, although I had to go through some hoops to enable font hinting, especially in Firefox (not that I use that browser a lot, but I still need it for some things). I'll be keeping Kubuntu on the Eee, as there's a larger community for customization. 
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+With this PC, I can do a few things, such as trying out FFXI on WINE and also try out some web application using the [Django framework](http://www.djangoproject.com). 
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+By the way, if you have seen some downtime in this blog it's due to the absolutely awful Wordpress upgrades I attempted, and mostly Wordpress's fault anyway.