A user profile on Ubuntu India – very interesting…

Just saw this user page by Mr Bharadwaj… on Ubuntu India…
Very interesting writings…

User:Bharadwaj.j@gmail.com – Ubuntu India

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polishlinux.org » GNU/Linux for everyone

A very very useful/interesting site for people looking for Linux distribution informations. It also has a page for comparing various distributions on some specific parameters

Also, allows individuals to write their views in a feedback/forum form.

polishlinux.org » GNU/Linux for everyone

For comparing distributions, visit http://polishlinux.org/choose/comparison/

Also interesting might be www.distrowatch.com

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Hardy 64bit beta Installed…

This weekend I installed Hardy 64 bit on my Core2Duo notebook and it flew… Just like that.

Earlier when I had gutsy for the first time on this laptop, I had plenty of issues with my hardware. Tweak here and tweak there, I had to do a lot of things to make it work the right way.

However, with Hardy this time, I would say, I felt happy for two reasons.. first it didnt complain about any of my hardware (probably because now my hardware is about a year old, and for gutsy it was so much newer..) and that its 64 bit installation.

I am yet to completely switch to this, especially since I encountered a bug with evolution and that Hardy is still beta, but I do see a way forward going with this version of Ubuntu for me.

As a result of this experiment, right now, I am triple booting, Vista business, Gutsy (32 bit) and Hardy (64 bit).

This is one thing I like so much about the PC notebooks, you can play around with them a lot more than you can do with an equivalent mac…

One of the guys on ubuntu forums posted this url for a better understanding of 64 bit systems… 64 bit Systems have more benefits than RAM only

Later on, I found this link, a very interesting collection of 32bit vs 64bit OS (especially Ubuntu) comparison.

Mac4Lin ver.0.2 – Mac OS X Leopard Transformation pack

Surprised to see that people are running independent project to make linux look/act like mac.

I am curious and would sure experiment with this.

Mac4Lin ver.0.2 – Mac OS X Leopard Transformation pack – Ubuntu Forums

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DVD Playback on Gutsy

Configuring DVD playback on Gutsy

For DVD playback, install VLC (accepted by most as the best DVD player, supports menus too);

sudo apt-get install vlc

And if you also want Totem to play DVDs well, you have to use the Xine backend instead of Gstreamer (this is optional, VLC will do just fine);

sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg

To get encrypted DVDs playing properly (check out no. 9 in the “Troubleshooting” section if you are having problems with new DVDs), paste these commands into the Terminal;

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 libdvdread3 libdvdnav4 build-essential debhelper fakeroot

then;

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

or if you get an error with that command;

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh

To set VLC as your default DVD player (I strongly advise you do) type the following command into the Terminal;

gksudo gconf-editor

Now expand “desktop” and then “gnome”, scroll down to “volume manager” but don’t expand it, just click on it and look over at the right pane. Scroll down and look for “autoplay_dvd_command” and change the command to “/usr/bin/vlc dvd://” (without quotes of course) by right clicking on it and selecting “Edit”, then click on “Set as Default”. Do the same for the “autoplay_vcd_command” as well.

From :  Complete Streaming, Multimedia & Video How-to – Ubuntu Forums

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Ekiga – PC to Phone on Ubuntu

It works, finally… it works.

I managed to configure my voipcheap account to work with Ekiga.
Though the phone numbers that u have to call look a bit awkward (sip:<phoneNumber>@sip.voipcheap.com), but it works.

I basically love the fact that I reduced another reason to boot into windows.  Loving Ubuntu every minute…

Here’s some documentation on How to Use Ekiga
Ekiga – Community Ubuntu Documentation

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Scrollkeeper flaky – Ubuntu Forums

Scrollkeeper flaky – Ubuntu Forums

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Linux desktop imitating OSX

Wonderful article .. full of info…

Linux desktop imitating OSX | Lauri Taimila

will report the exeperience..

Naming convention of Ubuntu Releases

I’ve always wondered why and how these people at ubuntu core group chose such names. 

Well, its hard to say that the names are good or bad, most of the times such word mean something or other in some or other language, for sure.

Still, if there was some scheme behind naming the versions, I didnt know about it.

Recently found out that, and here are details – DevelopmentCodeNames – Ubuntu Wiki   

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Photography on Linux

I myself was thinking about this since a few days..Actually ever since I got my Gutsy freshend up I was wondering if I could move all my daily works stuff from windows to Linux.  Photo management is surely one big area, especially with my interest in photos.

Check my interest here <http://raghavphotos.blogspot.com>

And then today morning, just by luck, I found this page..
Ubuntu Linux graphic software list « Linux Photography

Not read completely through it, but the Ubuntu forum page it refers to is sure useful.

Also interesting is this :

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-219756.html

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