Freezing

I was planing to add some extras to Ubuntu recently, so I've installed Compiz Fusion. It's a mixture of Beryl and Compiz and it has pretty decent effects.
Here are some screenshots:




You can rotate and flip your desktop, draw lines with fire, change windows in a really pedantic way, some crappy water effects etc...
Now it's really obvious how far m$ software is behind GNU/Linux community.

Cheers

I've installed Wine today.
Impression : good.

$ wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

$ sudo apt-get install wine
$ wine

It automatically puts Wine in menu, so you have to choose Configure Wine:

Click 'Autodetect...' in drives section and that's about it.

C: is not your C: drive in windows, it's folder in linux where you put your windows applications.

/home/COMPUTERNAME/.wine/drive_c/

Now you can install all kind of windows-like applications.
example:

Choose your linux 'c_drive\Program Files' directory>

zomg:

And voila, it's working...


It emulates most of simpler programs like so:


but, for bigger applications (Photoshop, Sound Forge, games) you have to configure some crap, i tried to run PS but it blocked on splash screen, damn modules...

Anyway, if you want to get rid of windoze 4ever, install wine...

kthxbye

Highway to Hell

Another day finished.
I customized my Ubuntu a lil' bit, i deleted fu*king Evolution Mail and replace it with Mozilla Thunderbird. Also, i installed ubuntu-restricted-extras, shit capable for playing mp3, avi etc.
When i got home today, i turned my b0x on, and power-supply cooler went wild. Some screws were badly attached, also it was full of dust. I took my vacuum cleaner and blow the motherfucker away.

Grub refreshed

I removed Xubuntu and installed Ubuntu. Why? I don't like Xubuntu at all.
Ubuntu comes with compiz, so it has really nice effects, gnome 2.20 is there too.
Openoffice has ubuntu's logo on splash image, so Feky tought ubuntu bought openoffice :D. Thing i really don't like is Evolution Mail, why didn't they put a better mail client, like Thunderbird. Oh well, their problem.
The VPN setup is really easy, you just have to install pptp-linux and
network-manager-pptp, configure it in a gui and browse the net.
Also, bluetooth is working 'out of the box', and Duffman said :"Oh yeaaah!!"

Messing with xfce

I messed up little with xfce, and now my desktop looks like this:

It looks pretty nice, but when i put some effects it will be better.
I'm starting to like xfce less then gnome, i dont know why.. Maybe i'll put Ubuntu instead Xubuntu later, but im suffering to put Back|Track in grub. Xubuntu didn't recognized it, and B|T doesn't have any boot files in its folder, so maybe i'll erase it, and copy the 'pentest' folder out of it to xubuntu...

Ubuntu

And, after long expectation new Ubuntu version is released. It is called Gutsy Gibson, v7.10.

Ubuntu's ranking got on top, on Distrowatch.
I downloaded Xubuntu, to try out the xfce desktop environment. I'm quite satisfied, the new release is updated with plenty of drivers and packages.
I plan to install beryl on it, and make my desktop super fancy.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

zZz...

Another sunny morning...
Best of '91 is moving pretty fine, now it has 7 writers. There're some brutal, interesting posts, and few pics. Enjoy..
Last night was great, i went out with some friends on a drink.

Anyway, new GNOME is released, check it out.

Scroll on Slackware

As you already know, you can't scroll in Slackware by default, you have to set it by yourself (stupid, but life is a bitch).
Open your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and find Section "InputDevice" - Identifier "Mouse1". Edit the folowing with:

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "4"

And your mouse scroll will work.
P.S. Next to Option "Buttons" type how many buttons do you have, i have 4, so i typed "4"

Learning linux...

Ah, i finally managed my partitions to work, with few tips from Feky and guys from elitesecurity.org, all partitions have been mounted (nano). Today, Feky visited me and learned me how to install packages which i downloaded for testing. He also brought his HD from his old b0x (30 GB :D). Few needles are broken and we were unable to start it, so he gave it to the local computer store to fix it.

Anyway, im starting to learn linux, it's not that hard as i thought, i just have to adjust to it, and realize how it works. I was suffering to set the monitor's frequency, and after editing the xorg.conf, it finally reached its fastest, 100 Hz. Now i hope my eyes won't heart :) (i really must to buy a tft monitor).

I downloaded today Diskinternal's Linux Reader, and im quite impressed. It's a simple program based on Windows Explorer which can read linux partitions like ext2, ext3 and swap. Also, you can copy the files, but not to delete or make them in those partitions.
See the pics :

Slackware on my box

Yesterday, Feky installed me a new edition of oldest linux distro, Slackware.
I'm amazed with its functionality and great look. It comes with many programs in packages, desktop environments like KDE, XFCE, but there isn't GNOME.
It's very easy to use, but u know, have to learn how to install things. Anyway, i suggest to all linux maniacs, or 'i'll be 1337 when i install linux' maniacs to try the Slackware.