| Box
| Worked out of the box , i.e. after a clean installation.
|
| Conf
| It needed editing a configuration file or running a
setup GUI.
|
| Add-On
| Needed additional or patched software: download it;
follow instructions to compile and install it; it works.
|
| Fiddle
| As with Add-On , but it required some workarounds
in the procedure, which might seem minor to an experienced user
but which might prevent a newbie from making it work.
|
| Hack
| So you call yourself a guru? This one will challenge
your skills. But this guru eventually got it working.
|
| Fail
| I wasn't able to get this one to work, at least so far.
|
| N.T.
| Not tested.
|
| *
| I'm using some special security procedures, which needed to be modified
for OpenSuSE 11.2. Before that was done, the console user's session
was being registered incorrectly so it could not mount removable
devices. Once that was fixed, items marked '*' functioned according
to their color background.
|
| Item | Vista | Linux
|
|---|
| Does it boot at all?
| Box | Box
|
| | Time, power button to greeter | 51 sec | 42 sec
|
| | Time, greeter to desktop | 16 sec | 6 sec (twm)
|
| | Time, desktop GUI to shutdown | 21 sec | 11 sec
|
| OS Installation
| No prob | No prob
|
| Video (Radeon 3200HD)
| Box | Box
|
| | Linux: used radeonhd driver.
|
| Hard disc (250Gb SATA)
| Box | Box
|
| Optical disc,
|
| | Read data DVD | Box | Box
|
| | Movie DVD | N.T. | Add-on
|
| | Play music CD | Box | Conf
|
| | Read data CD | Box | Box
|
| | Write data CD | N.T. | Box
|
| | Read check | N.T. | Perfect
|
| | Write DVD | N.T. | N.T.
|
| Flash card slot
| Box | Box
|
| Wired Ethernet | Box | Box
|
| | IPv4 (dhcp) | Box | Box
|
| | IPv6 (RFC 2462) | Box | Box
|
| |
http://ipv6.google.com and
www.kame.net have their animated
logo images, indicating that IPv6 was actually used. On Windows this
was tested on both Firefox and MSIE-7.
|
| Sound
|
| | Microphone | Box | N.T.
|
| | Rear output | Conf | Muted???
|
| | Front output | See below | Box (dflt dev)
|
| | Vista: moved headphone from rear to front,
mixer said no device installed and there was no sound in front. Moved
headphone to rear, still says no device installed, but sound is still
playing there.
|
| Processor | Recognized | Recognized
|
| | Chipset | Doesn't say | AMD K8 IMC
|
| CPU speed modulation | N.T. | Box
|
| Suspend to RAM | Box | Conf
|
| | Vista: only the keyboard will wake it, not mouse, not
Wake on LAN.
|
| | Linux: Until the whitelist for the s2ram program is
updated, you will need to create a file /etc/pm/config.d/suspend
(name is arbitrary) saying S2RAM_OPTS="-f -p -m" (shell syntax). Keyboard
will not wake it; use the power button or Wake on LAN. 1 sec to sleep,
11 sec to wake; most of the time is for reconfiguring video.
|
| Suspend to disc (hibernate) | Not enabled? | Box
|
| | With XFCE, web browser, and normal accessories, Linux
takes 11 secs until power goes off (with a cute picture of a sleeping
penguin while copying the image) and 33 secs to wake up. The power button
or Wake on LAN will wake it.
|
| Wake on LAN | Fail | Some
|
| | In BIOS setup you need to disable low power mode and
enable Wake on LAN. With Linux it will wake from suspend (S3 and S4)
but not from poweroff (S5) even though the NIC has power. I need to
re-test Windows to see if it can wake from S3; I believe I tested this and
it failed, but I'm not sure.
|
| Random number generator | N.T. | Missing
|
| Hotplug
|
| | In Linux, my special security procedure
prevented the console user from mounting hotplugged devices and
CD/DVD media, until it was updated to get the session registration
right on OpenSuSE 11.2.
|
| | USB flash memory stick | Box | Box*
|
| | Flash card slot | Box | Box*
|
| | Data CD (internal drive) | Box | Box*
|
| | External DVD drive | N.T. | N.T.
|
| Item | Vista | Linux
|
|---|
| Web browser | MSIE-7 | Firefox
|
| | Vista: Browsertest, everything works except it only
plays AVI, WAV, MP3 media formats.
|
| | Linux: Browsertest, everyting works except it only plays
Ogg multimedia formats. Need to re-test after installing movie codecs.
|
| Play music from web | WMP | Sort of
|
| | Linux: Firefox can play Ogg using Xine, but other formats
are done with the Totem plugin, which is far from an out of the box
experience.
|
| Download and read PDF | Acroread | evince
|
| Instant message | N.T. | Pidgin
|
| | You need to add your accounts, of course.
|
| Speed benchmarks:
|
| | Windows Experience Index | 3.4 | --
|
| | (Subscores: CPU 3.4, memory 4.9, graphics 5.1,
3D graphics 3.5, disc 5.9)
|
| | Geekbench (overall) | -- | 1539
|
| | Integer (ratio to Pentium III Coppermine 1.0GHz) | | 1.702
|
| | Floating (matrix multiply, mflop/sec) | |
|
| | Graphics 2D | |
|
| | Graphics 3D | |
|
