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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I have a fat32 partition for sharing- I find it easiest to settle the partition stuff and then reinstall both OS's. By the way, the maximum size of a fat32 partition is about 196GB- learned that the hard way... Question: Why do you need wireless drivers on a desktop? "[i]maybe due to the partnership between Dell and ubuntu[/i]"- what are you talking about? The OpenCD Project has been around since at least early 2005. This is my little laundry list whenever setting up Linux: [url=https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu]Enable metaverses[/url] [url=http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/]Add the Medibuntu repositories[/url] [i]Medibuntu is a packaging project dedicated to distributing software that cannot be included in Ubuntu for various reasons, related to geographical variations in legislation regarding intellectual property, security and other issues.[/i] Can't compile anything without this package: [b]build-essential[/b] [i]Contains gcc, make, etc...[/i] My wifi chooser was this: [b]Wifiradar[/b], but the stock [b]Network Applet[/b] (I believe that's what it's called) is pretty good about it nowadays. It's what's running on my laptop... Install these for movies: [url=http://www.videolan.org/vlc/]vlc[/url] [url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/screen.html]mplayer[/url] and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEncoder]mencoder[/url] [url=http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html]NVIDIA drivers[/url] and [url=http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html]Envy[/url] [i]If you're not an NVidia boi, don't worry about the NVidia drivers. However, take a good long look at Envy. Don't know anything about ATI except some bad Juju- good luck.[/i] All this stuff and others used to give me this huge line to run as root: [i]apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras vlc mplayer mencoder w32codecs build-essential xchat frozen-bubble chromium xmms banshee libdvdnav4 libdvdplay0 libdvdread3 libxine1-ffmpeg xchat-gnome libdvdnav4 libdvdplay0 libdvdread3 libxine1-ffmpeg envy generic-mouse-server[/i] more visualizations for totem- [i]apt-get install libvisual*[/i] [b]frozen-bubble[/b] and [b]chromium[/b] are games, but the old version of Frozen Bubble was much better. I use Chromium to test out if my video card is giving me love. I perfer [b]xchat-gnome[/b] to [b]xchat[/b], but YMMV- especially on KDE. [url=http://banshee-project.org/Distributions/Ubuntu]Banshee[/url] is an iTunes-like music app. I explained Envy above- look at the [url=http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html]page[/url] to see if you need it. That [b]w32codecs[/b] is all of the codecs, though [url=http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/]Totem[/url] will prompt you to download decoders for anything you don't have. Totem is for Gnome, however, but there'll probably be some similar function in KDE. Add [b]k3b[/b] to that for CD/DVD burning. It rocks, but I've never had to use it (well, recently- used to use it a lot). After all that is set up, I will probably spend 6 weeks at http://www.kde-look.org/ downloading every theme, icon pack, wallpaper, window decoration, and other misc. crap I don't need... You need to go to [url=http://www.reallyslick.com/]Really Slick Screensavers[/url] and download the "Helios" screensaver. You'll never take your eyes off of the screen again... Other fun packages include: [url=http://stellarium.org/]Stellarium[/url] - Look into the night sky [url=http://www.shatters.net/celestia/]Celestia[/url] - Navigate the universe [url=http://mods.moddb.com/5727/openarena/]Open Arena[/url] - Quake ]\|[ Arena clone [url=http://www.blender.org/]Blender[/url] - though I would kill for 3D Studio Max Look at my earlier post about installing Photoshop because the GIMP never quite did it for me. Keep in mind that all of these packages can be installed by checking the boxes in the Synaptic GUI, but I perfer typing all of that and going out for some nachos while it works. Also keep in mind that you can only run apt-get as root- so either type "sudo apt-get blah blah blah <return> password" or type "su <return> password <return> apt-get blah blah blah". Note that some people frown upon the second one, but it's the only way I do it. Get XGL and Beryl or Compiz working and it will [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYgV2GlsufI]blow your screen away[/url]. Though I must admit it gets old really fast and I don't have it on right now. Welcome to Ubuntu, argo. Ask any other questions right here or email me at petskull in the gmail-ness.. P.S. Isn't that installer to die for? Loading...
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