Linuxseekers

This time my primary test machine for  SimplyMEPIS 32 beta 6 was Dell

Inspiron 600m notebook equipped with Pentium M processor (1.4Ghz) ,

512 mb sdram, ATI Radeon 250 graphic,  AC97' soundcard,  IPW2100

built-in intel centrino adapter, and Broadcom BCM5705M gigabit wired

ethernet.

In this review, i wanted to know how good is the wifi support that comes

with SimplyMEPIS 32 beta 6 and whether it can handle 3D eye candy that

seems to be so popular these days.

As more and more of the desktop market share being metastatically taken

away by note-books equipped with wifi component, it is absolutely vital

that a Linux desktop be as wifi friendly as possible.  Otherwise, people will

continue to use windows.

As we all know, to run the xgl or aiglx 3d acceleration via linux doesn't need

extra resources like Window Vista.  I played with Vista for while,  it didn't

amaze me.  Aero or no aero it's still expensive and worst of all,  it needed

extra hardware power.   We are talking about  128mb of graphic memory and

about 1gb of pc ram !  On top of that many application just won't work on it.