Linux

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:33 pm

WaeV wrote:I've always wanted to do this:...

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Update to the git master of Compiz. There is a "cylinder" mode that will make it a lot smoother. Also, I could do a lot better by complicating things - multiple wallpapers would yield better results as I could make it nice and thin and still have the right number of, um, circle things.

Since you bumped this, I might as well post this video.

CompKronos · Post by **CompKronos** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:54 pm

wow i love the ring switch and btw how do i make the cube because i have the switcher turned on but it will only display 2 desktops not the full 6 or in WaeV's case 10-12

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:08 am

CompKronos wrote:wow i love the ring switch and btw how do i make the cube because i have the switcher turned on but it will only display 2 desktops not the full 6 or in WaeV's case 10-12

CCSM -> General Options -> Desktop Size:
Horizontal: 4
Vertical: 1
Number of Desktops: 1 (Compiz does not use "desktops", I'm still waiting for this to be removed...)

Ar5eNiC · Post by **Ar5eNiC** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:05 pm

WaeV wrote:I've always wanted to do this:...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/ ... esktop.png

I love Ubuntu and Halo as much as the next person, but seriously...

OwnZ joO · Post by **OwnZ joO** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:26 pm

I'm thinking about installing xubuntu on an older laptop to try it out.

gmp_gmp · Post by **gmp_gmp** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:55 am

Xubuntu works excellently on extremely old hardware. I installed it on my grandfather's old PC after I built him a new one, and set it up as a web browsing terminal.

1.3 Ghz P4 (First Gen or something)
384 MB of ram, it came with 128
and an 8GB HDD I found lying around.

The only problem is that the HDD ran out of space so XFCE fails to login *shrug*

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:03 am

I have Kubuntu install on my mac through emu.

OwnZ joO · Post by **OwnZ joO** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:16 am

gmp_gmp wrote:Xubuntu works excellently on extremely old hardware. I installed it on my grandfather's old PC after I built him a new one, and set it up as a web browsing terminal.

1.3 Ghz P4 (First Gen or something)
384 MB of ram, it came with 128
and an 8GB HDD I found lying around.

The only problem is that the HDD ran out of space so XFCE fails to login *shrug*

Sounds good, I think it's a PIII with 256MB Ram and 20GB ish HD, so it should run decently, probably better than xp at least.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:58 pm

My mom's old desktop crapped out and I have her using ubuntu's live CD. I should probably d/l a newer CD, I'm using 6.06 (Released 6/06)

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:18 pm

WaeV wrote:My mom's old desktop crapped out and I have her using ubuntu's live CD. I should probably d/l a newer CD, I'm using 6.06 (Released 6/06)

Get yourself an 8.04, released 5 days ago.

I used to run one of my family's desktops on a Live CD - it had a lot of viruses. It ran faster on the live CD than it did the day we installed XP. Even I was amazed.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:14 pm

Unless its my own dvd drive sucks...I have a hard time believing that.
Only coz when I ran live CD, oh many was that so horrible.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Thu May 01, 2008 8:33 pm

Actually I would say the speed of the drive is a HUGE factor in live CD speed. My mom's PC has two drives, one came with the PC originally (97-ish) and the other one is newer (it can read DVDs). It took twenty minutes for the live CD to boot off the old one, and only eight off of the newer one. (For comparison, XP came up in about 5-6 minutes when it ran).

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Fri May 02, 2008 1:34 pm

My CD drive is faster, and my DVD drive is iffy when it comes to actually working. Believe me, it ran faster, except when it came to starting a program with a large physical file size, you'd have to wait a bit, but it was the actual running that was faster. I won't ignore the possibility of a horribly slow hard drive, though, but I'm sure it's not that slow.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Sat May 03, 2008 1:34 pm

Well, it was an old computer.

Senor_Grunt · Post by **Senor_Grunt** » Wed May 07, 2008 2:38 am

Hey guys, was XUbuntu a good choice since my laptop here is a little on the slow side?

OwnZ joO · Post by **OwnZ joO** » Wed May 07, 2008 10:29 am

It's not bad, I can't get the wireless card for my laptop to work, but it's kind of a pos and I've only tried a few times.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Wed May 07, 2008 10:44 am

Senor_Grunt wrote:Hey guys, was XUbuntu a good choice since my laptop here is a little on the slow side?

I've been looking at gOS and it has pretty low system reqs, plus it has AWN dock w/o video hardware acceleration!

(Don't need a vidya card to use it,I think)
Also, it's pretty.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Wed May 07, 2008 1:58 pm

I don't know of any wireless drivers for linux, so that would be a problem. Try googling it before you erase anything.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Wed May 07, 2008 2:07 pm

If it's anything but a Broadcom chipset, it should work fine. That's the rule for wireless. Broadcom has announced that they will try and improve their support, though.

In related news, Valve has let leak some very crucial information: They're extremely interested in their own port of Source games. I say "let leak" because Valve themselves never announced anything - but they have job openings in their higher software development levels where the primary goal will be to port games to Linux (it says it word for word "port to Linux"). A full report was released by Phoronix (just the #1 news source for Linux). Also, Postal. Which is very specific when it came to a Linux port.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Wed May 07, 2008 3:11 pm

Sweet! Steam seemed to work pretty well with linux last time I tried it (about a year ago) so it should run just fine.