http://www.realistanew.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:18:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment a man runs his girlfriend through a series of seemingly common tasks and sees how she does with Ubuntu. The bit about downloading an album online seems a bit sketchy (use amazon, not bittorrent) but the main one I want to talk about concerns, of ... http://www.realistanew.com/2008/04/30/thoughts-on-the-great-ubuntu-girlfriend-experiment/ It's that time again. Time to plan for a new release of Ubuntu, I mean. There are some rather large things in this list and so I doubt all of them will be implemented in time but it is always better to dream big and get as much done as ... http://www.realistanew.com/2008/04/30/plans-for-compiz-in-ubuntu-810/ It seems AMD's scripts to build an Ubuntu package for 7.10 include a diversion for /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager so they can add fglrx to the list of supported drivers. The problem is that they don't remove this diversion on upgrade/uninstall so when you upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 the /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager file will no ... http://www.realistanew.com/2008/04/23/fglrx-breaking-upgrades-to-804/ So tiny... This thing has an 800Mhz Intel x86, Intel 910 graphics, and a 5.6 inch screen. I got to play with one yesterday and I just had to see how well Compiz ran on it. It was surprisingly nice, no stuttering or anything, unlike the Classmate. Probably not very practical ... http://www.realistanew.com/2008/01/17/compiz-on-fujitsu-u810/ Whee, haven't done this in quite some time. Let's see, what has been going on since last time I blogged. First off, unfortunately it looks like the X3000/X3100 (also known as 965) intel chip will still be blacklisted in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (hardy). We tried switching to EXA so we could get ... http://www.realistanew.com/2008/01/12/compiz-updates/ Rather than reply to the comments left on my last post I've decided to write this so more people will see the answers. First of all, my source of info is me. I'm on the compiz team in Ubuntu. We've fixed the Intel driver so compiz+video works there unless you have a ... http://www.realistanew.com/2007/09/23/compiz-in-ubuntu-update/ Wow, I haven't posted anything here for awhile. Anyway, in a Technical Board meeting yesterday it was decided that we will have Compiz enabled by default in Ubuntu 7.10, barring any obscene blowups before the beta. Woohoo! :) I spent a couple hours today going through all the bugs open against ... http://www.realistanew.com/2007/09/12/compiz-by-default-in-ubuntu-710/ http://www.realistanew.com/2007/05/09/compiz-on-classmate-pc/ Woohoo, I got my website running again. Thanks Mez. :) As I'm sure you've heard by now, Compiz and Beryl are rejoining. On the compiz side we were in the process of splitting into 'compiz' and 'compiz-extra'. Compiz is the core and essential plugins like resize, move, etc. Compiz-extra is where ... http://www.realistanew.com/2007/04/17/im-back-compiz-beryl-merge/ Finally got my introspection work on compiz's dbus plugin to a point I consider done. Any other changes require API changes as well. Now to wait and see if the patch gets accepted. Might take some time, it's pretty big... configure.ac | 2 +- plugins/dbus.c ... http://www.realistanew.com/2007/03/04/fun-with-introspection/