Archive for July, 2007

All the free software as you can eat ;0)

http://www.getdeb.net/browse.php

It’s getting a bit retro now, but here is a superb matrix screen saver that imprints the film characters within the matrix.  It’s a lovely effect to see animated. Available for linux and windows.

http://knoppix.ru/matrixgl.shtml

Installing Compiz Fusion instructions

http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=131

Testing Automatrix out, claims to be a simple application installer, looks good after first impressions.

Tried installing google earth and it wanted to install in the home/user folder rather than /usr/local/google/google-earth  not sure I like that.  Need to re run with sudo.

Picasa installed perfectly and worked straight off. So did acrobat reader.

Some of the other interesting bits include, gdesklets, xDVDShrink, Apatana, VMWare and others.

Just trying out ntfs-3g, which provides ntfs read and write support in feisty.  Simply search for the ntfs-config (a nice UI) package in synaptic (not the ntfs-3g) an install.

More information can be found on http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ including alleviating concerns over stability.

I’m very, very slowly being converted to the dark side or light side depending on your perspective.  Ubuntu is a great linux distribution with a breadth of opensource apps that can be installed. The synaptic package manager makes installing anything as easy as ever. 

After trying several of the articles out there in the big WWW, and after several failures, I finally found an article on how to get the 3D desktop effects going in ubuntu 7.04. The key differentiation is the need to roll back beryl to a previous version so you get the beryl-xgl installed.

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Ubuntu_Feisty_with_XGL