I just discovered this before when re-organising links I’ve accumulated over time. I have a lot, some I’m not sure are even worth keeping.
Anyway, you can add it as a bookmark to your browser, Firefox in my case, and when you come across something good, click the ‘Link This’ bookmark.
A little window pops up, showing the Blogroll -> Add Link page.
This makes organising bookmarks much easier, so long as I do it as I go.
I liked Xfmedia in Xubuntu Dapper.
It played my music, it played my videos, it played my DVDs. I liked it’s simplicity, minimal dependencies (don’t forget libxine-extracodecs for the good stuff), and it’s ease of use.
For Xubuntu Edgy, Xfmedia has been relegated to the universe repository and gxine has been promoted.
Don’t get me wrong, between gxine and Xfmedia there wasn’t a CSS protected DVD I couldn’t watch. Good times.
What am I talking about? Xfmedia; installed in 10 seconds and I’m happy again.
I do like the fact the gxine in Edgy doesn’t have that annoying mini-splash screen.
It seems like only yesterday I finally sorted out my PC and installed Dapper. Now I’m moving on up.
This time I thought I would give the LiveCD install method a whirl. Being short on time, patience and DVDs, I decided to try installing Xubuntu Edgy straight over the root partition of my Dapper install, leaving all my other partitions intact. This provision has always existed, but I’ve not been game enough to try it.
The LiveCD installation, for the most part, is a cake walk. The first steps allow you to set up the time zone, keyboard, and the first user.
Then onto to the partitioning.
For my upgrade scenario, all that needs to be done is to reformat the root (/) partition and then install Edgy on that. All other partitions can be mounted as they were previously and left untouched.
After the partitions have been arranged, a confirmation screen summarises the installation to this point. A major plus (in my opinion) for the LiveCD this time round; you can alter the location that GRUB is installed to.
No more indiscriminate MBR wiping. I wouldn’t say it was intuitive, but if you need to specify a different location for GRUB, I think you should probably know a little more about what you are doing.
Having installed Ubuntu Edgy on my work PC that day, using the text-based Install CD, I was surprised that the LiveCD installation on my PC was much slower to complete, despite being on a much better machine than my work PC.
Finally a reboot and to my great pleasure, I have Xubuntu Edgy, complete with all my previous customisations. Very slick.
Do not try to use the update-manager, from the XFCE -> System Menu to upgrade Xubuntu Dapper to Edgy.
From Xubuntu.org
Upgrading
If you are using Xubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake), you can easily update to version 6.10 (Edgy Eft).
Click here for instructions.
At the moment, it is not recommend to use this method, as there seem to be problems with it.The method of apt-get dist-upgrade is still safe for those who are familiar with it, the issue is only with the update-manager.
I was almost going to give an update from Dapper a try too. Admittedly a dist-upgrade, but glad I held off a little while!
I’ve been out of the Ubuntu/GNU/Linux community/forum scene for so long, I have no idea what’s been happening.
So Compiz has been forked into a project called Beryl. AIGLX, Redhat’s offering to accelerate graphics now works straight out of the box on Ubuntu Edgy.
I discovered this while playing with the Edgy LiveCD at work. I read several reviews, and watched more than a few YouTube videos.
The effects are just amazing.
I just had to give it a try.
In a lot of the reviews I read, I thought it was strange how the authors claimed that now GNU/Linux can match Windows (Vista I presume) and Max OSX for eye candy and looks.
Perhaps I just haven’t seen enough of what these other OS’es can do, because …
I’ve been using GNU/Linux for just over a year now, and in my opinion it has always been ahead of Windows/OSX in terms of eye candy. Even before Compiz/Beryl came about.
Just my opinion of course. Anyway …
Following the HOWTO from the Beryl project website, I was able to set things up in less than 15 minutes (I already had XGL).
I had to make some minor adjustments, for using XFCE, but minor being the operative word. Xubuntu uses the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) so setting up a custom XGL session was easy, and setting up Beryl to run over XFWM was not hard either.
I’ll try to go over it later, both for Dapper, and Edgy when I install it soon.
I don’t know where Compiz is at the moment, so I’ll wanna check that out too at some time, but for the moment I am just drooling at my the rain falling on my desktop, or my windows folding when they are shaded.
I also just love how many options there are to configure the behaviour.
This is just too cool!
