VERY COOL - Screenshots from my new Linux box

[Robin Hood]

I just set myself up a new Linux box, I am running Ubuntu Gutsy Gibson 7.10 with a Gnome desktop. I installed Compiz-Fusion and a few other goodies, then went to work making it look like I wanted. What you are seeing in these screen shots is just the tip of the iceburg as far as eye candy. There is alot of animation that I obviously can't show you here, for instance the windows when minimized fold up and drop down, when closed they go up in flames ;D

Here is the basic desktop



By hitting the windows key + E I can see all four desktops at the same time, I also can drag windows from one desktop to the other here.



If I hit Ctl + Alt and LM button the desktop turns into a cube that I can rotate with my mouse to pick the one I want to work on.






If I hit Ctl + Alt and the down arrow it basically opens the cube up and I can pick from the side I want by using the arrow keys and hitting enter.



In closing I know I am a geek ;D I have always been one of those guys that would tear apart a brand new toy and see if I can make it work better, that is why I LOVE Linux so much, I can tear apart the OS, tweak it into exactly what I want it to be, I just wish more things supported it, if you think finding suitable shit for Mac is bad, try to find what you want for Linux But, alas, if I can't find it I just make it If you ever want to come to the dark side of the computing world I would be more than happy to spend HOURS upon HOURS on the phone with you setting up a new Linux system.

[Chicago Jake]

RH, I can't begin to understand the depths of your geekdom, but I truly do appreciate it! Thanks for sharing, and for giving me something to shoot for.....Jake

[Robin Hood]

Just to give you an idea of what the raw OS looked like BEFORE I done all the tweaking.

[Ardbeg... innit]

If Vista had had multiple desktops, it would have been worth some of the hassles. VERY COOL!

[♥ COVID-19♥]

Oh, sure, it *looks* pretty, but can it run VI?

[Robin Hood]

bukkakeboy said:

Oh, sure, it *looks* pretty, but can it run VI?

Vi weakens the mind, and is the tool of Trotskyist's and their running-dogs... Use Emacs.

[Ardbeg... innit]

I think vi was the first editor that I ever learned, back on a PDP11/40

[♥ COVID-19♥]

EDLIN for me -- on an IBM-XT.

[Ardbeg... innit]

hmmmm, forgot about edlin... I think that might have been the second for me on an original PC. I remember doing some class reports in vi, but my Masters Thesis was definitely edlin.

[♥ COVID-19♥]

I can't imagine writing *anything* of any considerable length/detail in either VI or EDLIN. I've only used either to modify system settings.

[Ardbeg... innit]

At the time, it was that or typing on a regular type writer. I would NEVER have finished, or I would have had to hire a typist if that were the case

[Robin Hood]

I remember using something funky on the Apple IIe's way back when, but I have no clue what it was, I wrote alot of reports on those damn things too. It amazes me how far the technologies have came in just 20 years. My first real PC was a 486DX50, it had the math co processor.... WOOT!! It had 4MB of RAM and a 200MB hard drive and it was a speed demon!!, believe it or not I still have it and it still runs, although the HD has long since shit the bed. I bought that machine in 1992. Sixteen years later and the PC I have now is amazing, the things I can do with it just blow my mind. I honestly can't remember the last time I actually sat down in front of the TV just to sit and watch TV, everything I do entertainment wise at home is done on the PC. If I am gonna watch a movie I do it on the PC, music, once again the PC, News the PC, I also play alot of online games. My wife is getting just about as bad as me as far as what she does online, that is why she has her own high end PC now.

[Ardbeg... innit]

RH, my first computer was an AT with 512Kb Ram and a 10Mb HD.. BUT (lets see how good your memory is)... I installed a 40Mb 'hardcard' a couple years later. Do you remember what a 'hardcard' was (no googling).

[♥ COVID-19♥]

I do! I installed one on one of my subsequent computers, but not my first. My first was one of those Kaypro all-in-one machines with the little 9" green monitor and twin 5.25" floppies that held 191K each (64K RAM) and ran the CP/M OS.

[Robin Hood]

I have seen those before, LONG LONG AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY........

They weren't very popular cause of the cost, they were a few hundred bucks if my memory serves me right.

[Ardbeg... innit]

A bit more expensive than than a traditional harddrive, but they were the first real sneaker net device. With 40Mb, I could pop that sucker out of my own computer, put it in my pack, take it into my campus office, plug it in there and have all of my data, ancillary info and write up a department computer. For us, it was REALLY worth the extra cost (the alternative was carrying 30+ floppies around, and bridging 20+ floppies with a single data file was a BITCH, especially if disk number 17 out of 20 went bad)

[Ardbeg... innit]

BTW- RH, where did you get that wallpaper?

[Robin Hood]

The wallpaper came from www.deviantart.com/

The Skydome behind the desktop cube is actual Hubble images from NASA.

[Robin Hood]

I made a quick video of some of the animations and effects I have on my desktop, please enjoy. The quality sucks, but such is Google Video.

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3717904270207211857&hl=en

[Ardbeg... innit]

RH... deviantart is a GREAT web site. Thanks for the link. I noticed that a lot of the "spacescapes" were developed on Bryce. I have had Bryce sitting on the self since I got the new computer last August. Viewing some of the submissions on deviantart has inspired me to pull it off the shelf and get it up and running again.