[ Ubuntu-BD ] [ Linux.org.BD ] Ubuntu 7.04 released

Thu Apr 26 05:26:44 BST 2007

Tarin thankyou very much for your reply & thanks for sharing all this info'

Tarin Mahmood wrote:
> Sorry in a dvanced for this big reply :)
>
> About 3d Desktops
> I use Beryl and I love the 3D desktop, I can't even think of my 
> desktop without beryl. The experience is very good. Its highly 
> customizable (and there are a lot of themes on http://gnome-look.org/ 
> ), feels very snappy and It haven't crush on me once on my current 
> setup even after running for 3/4 days on a stretch (I was downloading 
> the last feisty updates, if you are curious, having a 56kb connection 
> is very painful and yes I am crazy). And Expose like feature is just 
> awesome and you can set many other options also like live window 
> previews. Transparency in the terminals are actually transparent.
>
> But Java applications fails to work properly with the 3D Window 
> Manager (Emerald). Eclipse, Net beans works perfectly but other Java 
> application won't resize properly, I had to restart the Window Manager 
> to make them work properly. So you are in for a wild ride if you are a 
> Java developer or intend to use Java based application.
>
> Also there is one huge problem, If I switch to terminals(Ctrl+Alt+F# 
> terminals) then the system hangs, So I had to turn off 3d desktop 
> before I switch to those terminals.
>
> if someone says it interrupts productivity then I will disagree with 
> him 99% as Managing many window is a snap and live preview is very 
> useful, 1% I agree cause sometime I just love rotating that cube 
> around... and as I love to customize my desk I spend many hours on 
> that too ;) you can use 4 types of shortcuts
>
> Ctrl+Alt+PageDown, Ctrl+Alt+PageUp
> Ctrl+Alt+Left, Ctrl+Alt+Right
> Alt+Tab
> WinKey+Tab
>
> And the best thing is it runs just perfectly on my 4 year old Geforce2 
> card without slowing down with most of the animations on, sadly the 
> latest NVIDIA driver ( 1.97x) do not support my card so I have to 
> manually install the Official Nvidia driver (1.96x). but that is 
> negligible. but I don't recommend for a inexperienced user, you are 
> better off with the legacy driver in the repositories, sadly which is 
> slow.
>
> If you have a system like
> P4/AMD with 256+ Memory and a decent Graphics card you should go for 
> the 3D desktop, It will  run on a lower configuration system but I'm 
> not sure How it would perform.
>
> ATI graphics card do not have good support for Linux and you won't 
> have a good experience with them, lake of a good driver is the key 
> problem and you are sure to have hard time (probably impossible) 
> setting up 3D desk with an ATI card. Sorry ATI guys
>
> And I have no Idea about Intel's builtin card. but I think it works 
> too and probably better then ATI.
>
> You want screen shots? You've just got it >
> http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53670004/
> thats my desktop
>
> About Feisty
> Up to now Feisty is just awesome. Documentation system have a big 
> improvement and I'm actually using this! It lists all the 
> documentation available in the system and they are easily available.
> Sudoku rocks :D and I hate chess as It always wins...
> Performance is very very good. Comes up first, goes down first too... 
> GNOME loads first and is much stable. After the final update it 
> haven't crushed on me for once.
> The default Firefox is very fast unlike Dapper or other older 
> variations. So I'm relieved from downloading and installing the 
> official version :)
> Auto-compilation in the terminal have improved a LOT! I've found the 
> improvements very useful.
> If you need a fast editor then I would suggest dumping Gedit(too 
> bloated) and use Vim (Install the full version) its blazing fast and 
> also very difficult to use for a newbie but Its perfect for me after 
> using it for 2/3 months and you'll feel the same after typing <esc> + 
> :w in MS Word or Open Office within a month, hi hi
> Many GTK Themes are now Customizable! You can change their colors now...
> Screen savers are still not customizable and I hate that...
> If you have a surround sound system and you are not getting any then 
> turn off "Analog/Digital Output Jack" from the Volume 
> Control>Switches, it freaked me out for a while.
> If you want to rip Audio CD as MP3 then don't forget to install lame,
> Well you can guess I'm very excited and happy about Feisty & Beryl ... :)
>
> Don't use automatix or scripts like it, it might mess up your 
> repositories and updating the system might break. Most of the stuffs 
> can now be easily setup in feisty, If you have problems then just go 
> through the Ubuntu forum, that community is very friendly and helpful
>
> @raihan hasnain
> Can you give us some hints about your problem, so we can try to help you?
>
> well sorry again for this big reply... :)
>
> On 4/25/07, *DarkLord (:=* <animator at ranksitt.com 
> <mailto:animator at ranksitt.com>> wrote:
>
>     */raihan hasnain /* wrote:
>
>     downloaded fiesty for the 4th time ... now everything is perfect
>     (except
>     3d desktop)!
>
>     why ? what happend?
>
>
>
>     আপনারা যারা উবুন্টু ৭.০৪ ব্যবহার করছেন তারা শেয়ার করবেন উবুন্টুর 3d
>     desktop এর
>     অভিজ্ঞতা ?
>
>     আগেই শুনেছিলাম উবুন্টুর এই ভার্সনে ৩ডি ডেক্সটপ যুক্ত করা হবে , কারন আজকাল
>     সবকানেই ৩ডি। Vista (ওরফে বিষ্ঠা) , ম্যাক ওএস এক্স লিনাক্স......
>
>     তাই উবুন্টুতে নতুন এই ৩ডি ডেক্সটপ সম্পর্কে জানালে খুশি হব। স্ক্রিনশট দিরেতো আরো
>     খুশি হব।
>
>     আমি শিপইটে অর্ডার দিয়েছি উবুন্টু,কুবুন্টু ৭.০৪ এর জন্য আশা করি শীঘ্রই পেয়ে যাব।
>     আরো জানান উবুন্টুতে নতুন এবং স্পেশাল কি কি আছে।
>     তাহরে এক্সাইটমেন্ট আরো বেড়ে যাবে, আমার সবচেয়ে প্রিয় লিনাক্স যে।
>
>
>     আর রাসেল ভাই RBL এ উবুন্টুর মত ডেবিয়ান .deb প্যাকেজ ম্যানেজমেন্ট সিস্টেম
>     ব্যাবহার করলেই মনে হয় ভাল হবে।
>
>     RPM কে 2ND চয়েস হিসেবে রাখবেন 8-)
>
>
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