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Beryl in Ubuntu Feisy repositories

Alex — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:17:00 +0000

I just did an update on my Ubuntu Feisty box and I saw beryl in the universe repository. The beryl-plugins package seems to be missing but I’m hoping this will change soon so I can apt-get install beryl

Tremulous: the best open source game I’ve played

Alex — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:10:00 +0000

For the past week I’ve been playing Tremulous, an open source game that blends a team based FPS (First-person shooter) with elements of an RTS (Real-time strategy). Its based on the Quake3 engine and the graphics are superb! Getting and installing Tremulous Linux users can download this package and run sh tremulous-1.1.0-installer.x86.run to install. Ubuntu users can install [...]

Overclocking ATI Radeon cards in Linux

Alex — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:09:00 +0000

First let me start by saying that overclocking is very risky, you can seriously damage your system, so please use this guide with care. That said lets start! Compiz, Beryl and some games work a bit slow on old video cards, so we overclock and improve their performance! I have an ATI Radeon 9550 card made by Gigabyte [...]

HOWTO Encrypt CD/DVDs in Ubuntu

Alex — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:25:00 +0000

This guide can be adapted to any distro, its not Ubuntu specific. Installing necessary tools sudo apt-get install aespipe mkisofs loop-aes-utils Chose a password You need to chose a 20+ character password and DO NOT FORGET IT, you will NEVER get your data back if you forget the password.

Festival: Linux Text-To-Speech

Alex — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:06:00 +0000

Festival is a free software for speech synthesis, it is distributed under an X11-type licence allowing unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use alike.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware. A [...]

Top 5 Linux Live CD/DVDs

Alex — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:02:00 +0000

#1 Knoppix There is no surprise here, Knoppix is the best linux livecd currently out there, they have been holding this spot for a few years now. The latest version of Knoppix packs a Linux 2.6.x kernel, KDE 3.x, xmms with mp3 and ogg support, GIMP 2.x and OpenOffice.org #2 SimplyMEPIS Based on Ubuntu, SimplyMEPIS comes with a very [...]

Ubuntu Customization Guide part I

Alex — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:52:00 +0000

Hello Hello! In this guide we’re gonna talk about customization, we’re gonna make Ubuntu look and feel the way we want, so lets start! You can adapt this howto basically on any distribution running GNOME. XGL/AIGLX and Compiz/Beryl I’m not gonna get in too much detail with this, its way too much eye-candy for my taste and it severely [...]

New Domain!

Alex — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:48:00 +0000

We’ve got a domain -> linuxmonitor.net/blog/ The old links will still be accessible on the blogger url.

Ultimate Ubuntu performance tweaking guide

Alex — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:41:00 +0000

Lets start first with the kernel:apt-get install build-essential libncurses-dev kernel-package cd /usr/src wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2 This will download the latest sources available, in my case linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2 cd /usr/src tar -xjf linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2 cd linux-2.6.20 Now lets apply the Con Kolivas patches, these are patches designed to improve system responsiveness with specific emphasis on the desktop, but suitable to any workload. wget www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-ck1/patch-2.6.20-ck1.bz2 bzcat patch-2.6.20-ck1.bz2 |patch [...]

Windows Vista (Aero) VS Linux Ubuntu (beryl)

Alex — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:10:00 +0000

Windows Vista Aero interface competing with Ubuntu Linux and Beryl.