Changed the Operating System (OS) on the laptop again (Advent 9415 with an SIS graphics card - nevery buying anything with SIS again if they won't support linux). Its great to have a spare laptop to cycle through the various Linux distro's seeing what each is up to. Anyway, the usual problem with the SIS graphics card presented itself. Having installed Fedora 13 I was met with the ugly 800x600 screen resolution with no option to change it.

I got so sick of Vista I installed ubuntu on my Advent 9415 laptop. I'd have done it a lot sooner but the better half of me and the half that controls the food was 'used' to vista and had no clue what linux, unix, ubuntu or any other those nasty terms was. Eventually I could bear it no longer. Even at the risk of having to cook for myself I wiped the harddrive clean and installed Ubuntu...only to be met with a screen resolution stuck on 800x600.

After installing Centos 5, javascript was running very slow no matter what broswer I used - firefox or Opera. The issue is an out of date driver. Update your driver or switch drivers.