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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	In the continuity of the "new Linux user journal", I have an update. Firstly, I fixed myself a kdm "bug" (currently filed as wishlist in debian bug tracking lists because it does only hinder users who have dual kde/xgl setups like mine on debian-likes, it seems), and posted about it on the ubuntu forums : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3166711#post3166711 :) Being able to easilly patch one's own OS is something very new to me, and quite specific to Linux as everything is open including bug tracking. Yaikes! In the process, I learnt a lot about the system and inner workings of kde/kdm. As of today, my "to stabilize list" includes : - fixing the couple of broken keys like "Windows" key. - fixing the green strip at the top when I play quicktimes using VLC media player and/or plugin for firefox. - fixing google earth (hangs at startup) - fixing eclipse (starts and runs greats, but whines about privileges when compiling - certainly some misconfiguration of mine) - fixing a couple of broken control panels related to ATI and the display (only when in XGL, I can work around this by using standard KDE) For the rest, everything seems to run great : I can play music and organize/synchronize it from Amarok, got niftey screen savers and my desktop all customized in 3d with Compiz fusion, can play any video media from Xine engine compliant software, can produce office documents using open office, browse great using Firefox and Flash 9, gimp away, Wine/Photoshop when I need to, etc... The latest addition to my software bank is Picasa itself :) Works a threat on ntfs or ext3 partitions, and certainly all the other types supported. Google earth should follow shortly, as it does work right from the start for the vast majority of Ubuntu/Compiz users, soo.. I also got all the screencaps I wanted to demonstrate how useful compiz can be in addition to eye candy, haven't got round to updating my flickr space accordingly, will do that this weekend. In spite of some Windows "conveniences out of the box" I am permanently disgusted and will never switch to Vista. My next powermac will, instead, dual boot on Kubuntu and OS X :) Probably the upcoming version, I am waiting for that to buy. Loading...
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