Published by Bart on Feb 18th, 2007 in Blog'n'Roll with 8 Comments
Compiz Fusion is collection of plugins for Compiz, an OpenGL based window manager for the X Window System (read: available for all Linux distributions, natively build in Ubuntu) that uses 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management.
Most of you have heard about that great piece of free software, and [...]
Tags: software, ubuntu
Published by Bart on Oct 11th, 2007 in Blog'n'Roll with 11 Comments
After few days of silence finally I’m back. Despite of the fact that most of readers are not interested in reading about more personal stuff in general, there are few things worth to share in a post. This time it’s a piece of my software ramblings - finally I’ve upgraded my Ubuntu to Feisty Fawn [...]
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Published by Bart on Sep 13th, 2007 in Blog'n'Roll with 3 Comments
I decided to add a picture of Linux Tux (more precisely - Ubuntux) to my little sidebar propaganda, I think it’s a nice addition to the green version of Firefox that is available there since I was starting with that blog.
By the way - this is good opportunity to show off with my own installation, [...]
Tags: linux, ubuntu
Published by Bart on Sep 3rd, 2007 in Blog'n'Roll with 16 Comments
Two weeks ago I wrote that we won’t ever figure out the girl from the famous Ubuntu Girl picture, and it looks like I was wrong. You see, resolving previous enigma of Firefox girl was pretty challenging, so this one was looking much more difficult, especially if you don’t speak Hungarian. Anyway, finally one folk [...]
Tags: chicks, ubuntu
Published by Bart on Aug 15th, 2007 in Blog'n'Roll with 109 Comments
Don’t waste your time on listing all advantages of switching to Linux from Windows, there are a few better ways to evangelize. For instance, I’m sure this picture will be much more successful than any other right-minded strivings…
digg_url = ‘http://florchakh.com/2007/08/15/ubuntu-girl-spread-the-linux-with-a-chick.html’;Photo was made by Ubuntu fans from Hungary, I’m afraid I won’t ever figure out [...]
Tags: chicks, linux, ubuntu
Published by Bart on Jul 11th, 2007 in Blog'n'Roll with 10 Comments
After one of upgrades my (recent) favorite browser Opera has started to generate strange errors on and on. When I wanted to install an upgrade, there appeared damn Dependency Hell phenomenon, so finally I was forced to hang it up and swap my default browser for Firefox. I have imported all bookmarks, configured user searchers [...]
Tags: chicks, firefox, opera, ubuntu