**I know that many web pages are indeed programmed "incorrectly" and suffer from many programming errors, which is probably the cause of Firefox's rendering issues. However, as the end user in no position to fix such problems on the web site's end, I have little alternative then to use IE's sloppy but visually correct rendering.
Why not use both? I have IE sitting on my Linux desktop. Anytime I have site that won't work, I use IE. For the rest I use Firefox. Firefox is a much better experiance, why not just you both?
After reading this excellent piece of writing the author makes it obvious (maybe not to him) why his Xgl project failed to get acceptance. The Gnu community does not want to move forward on this until there are open drivers to support the OpenGL desktop...and there is the problem. We will be years behind MS and Apple because they lack such requirements.
If Nvidia and ATI released their specs today Linux would still be at least 2 years behind Windows and OSX- thats how long it would take to make drivers from these specs equal to closed drivers made by ATI or Nvidia (especially Nvidia). We don't even have that. As far as I know, only one decent set of open 3D drivers exist, those for the (now very outdated) 9200 ATI cards. Those in the community that demand open drivers will happily hold back the Linux desktop till the open drivers are ready, even if the closed Nvidia driver is better today.
Unlike the author, I see the solution in the "bandaids." No way will many in the community switch over to Xgl when good open drivers for 70% of graphic cards don't exist. The solution is to sneak around these people.
Step 1: Modularize Xorg. This will hopefully push ATI to make better Linux drivers (they already did much better this year).
Step 2: Extend Xorg with EVA and the like. Let them either use open source 3D acceration if its there (not most of the time) and closed acceration when its not.
Step 3: Watch as most desktop Linux users prefer to use the closed drivers that give them eye candy TODAY rather than wait for some open drivers to do it years from now. This gets around the developers that won't improve eye candy till the open drivers are there....
I am a rare species- someone who prefers Linux for its eye candy. I have bought two Nvidia cards because of the quality of their CLOSED drivers, and the fact that those plus xcompmgr make my desktop pretty. I don't care that EVA or Xcompmgr are kludges on top of bandaids. I care that they work. I care that I don't have to wait till someone makes the open source drivers to get eye candy. I want my fading, drop shadows, and wobbly windows NOW and I (along with most people) are more than willing to trade software freedom to do it.
The problem is that the freedom zealots in the community know that. The pratical ones know that most people don't give a damn about driver freedom, and that if they don't stop it (or slow it down by not helping Xgl) one day the Linux desktop will be like MS's or OSX's- seen through closed drivers only. I don't know if its the spoiled brat in me or what....but I don't care. I want eye candy NOW. Not 5 years from now when the open source solutions are in place. So do many other people. This want will get around the zealots and desktop Linux will be closed but beautiful....I hope.
1) Either you treat Linux as a public desktop operating system, which means that you have customers who are the desktop users and you are their developer (the fact that you work for free is your own damn problem)... OR you treat Linux as your own personal hobby operating system, which means that you answer only to yourself.
2) Either advocate the adoption of Linux and, in exchange, offer your services to your new customers (the fact that you work for free is your own damn problem)... OR stop advertising Linux for people who are not developers themselves and concentrate on making software for only yourself and your fellow developers to tinker with.
3) Either claim that Linux is at least as user-friendly as Windows and listen and address your customers' feedback (the fact that you work for free is your own damn problem)... OR make things only work as easy as you yourself would prefer and offer no user support for products you've developed
Who is this "you" you are talking to? The Linux community at large? A certain one from the community? Problem is you can't do that. There is no "you." This isn't like MS or Apple. Its "you all." "They." Plural. There is more human diversity in the Linux community than outside it.
For each of your options, a few of the "they" would pick the first option and a few would pick the second. Thats why you get the bipolar opinions of Linux. But it can't be avoided, because there is no single entity to control it. Linux's "marketing department" is not right down the hall from the "sales department" and the "finance department." It not unified. Thats what the whole freedom thing is really about...deep down. So it might stumble along in a way a company never would, but its still stumbling along. In TiVos, Cell Phones, Routers, Cars and Playstation 3's in the future.
Let's just say: It ain't the cost of the distro, folks. It's keeping it running. That's expensive, and you guys all seem to think you deserve top dollar. You seem to think "If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." You know what? You're right. You keep the more esoteric parts of Linux close to your chest, just obscure enough so no one else QUITE knows what's going on, then you're "needed." That's exactly right, and that's why you are going away.
and this:
Remember, I'm not smiling about Linux issues: I'm out to get you.
Are awesome. Part blind emotion, part truth, part ignorance and part genius....
I have been thinking about it a lot. This whole Gnu thing seems to be a generational gap type of deal. We have the old guard, like this fellow would be more than happy to oursource all our jobs if it would make his product better and cheaper while not trusting anything that does not have the same selfish core philosophy, and you have the GNU "hippies" who go around giving everythign away for free in order to remain relevant and to save users from themselves.
I really liked this rant. I can not see through the other side, but I have come to some of the same conclusions....I just like the idea of increasing my value (this poster doesn't) and I like the idea of Libre software (this poster doesn't care). But we can come to the same conclusions. Neat.
Its irrelvent. Just like any generational trend, the younger crowd will end up winning. Linux might never be on the parent poster's Desktop, but it will sneek into his cell phone, his tivo, his car computer or his firewall. He would have to go out of his way to avoid it. And that is why the arguement doesn't matter. But its fun to read.
My bet is that there will be a significant "brain drain" out of the city/state. Young educated people are going to find a job somewhere else and not look back.
Well...the thing is...this has already been happening. I was born in N.O. and my family spent most of their lives there. But ever since the 80's N.O. has gone downhill...its traded its big port contracts for a bunch of drunk tourists. Already a brain drain was happening, and the economy was going downhill. This will just increase the effect....its so sad.
They will rebuild my hometown as some damn Las Vegas copy. Jump in head first with the vice and glamour to pay for all the damage. And all the decent folks will continue to move away. I miss my home state, but now it seems I might never be able to go back and make a decent living...
This is such an asshole comment. New Orleans was created because 200+ years ago we didn't have roads to get everywhere and the best way to transport goods was to float it down rivers. New Orleans, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, manages the traffic that want to go from the Mississippi River to Ocean- for over 300 years!. There are some of the oldest European landmarks in North American there, and thousands of people in the region help on offshore oil rigs that keeps the U.S.A. afloat. There is a good reason there is a city there.
But not to you, Mr. Asshole. To you, its THEIR fault this happened. Its my grandmothers fault that her house is under water right now (which is why I am so mad at your heartless comment). I mean 40 years ago she COULD have bought it somewhere else, except for the fact that my grandfather's job was in New Orleans and they didn't have the means to live else where. But no, you are right, its her fault.
This shit makes me sooo mad. And to see such cold tripe modded up....sad day...
Long opinion... I can see you are honest. I am a moderator at the Ubuntu forum, but you seem to be a prime candidate for SUSE. Its a little easier, and has a KDE/Gnome independent GUI tool for almost anything. Ubuntu is for nerdier people, or workstations for non nerds set up by nerdy people. SUSE is an easy to use desktop. Try 9.3 and see, its free.
On Windows and Mac OS X, I can download an app as a single file (not all the time) and it just works. I can copy an app from one system to another (or even when upgrading systems) and it just works. In most cases, I can even copy kernel extensions from one system to another, upgrading at the same time, and it all still works (sadly, the ext2fs driver was one exception to this). There is true binary compatibility there, and this just doesn't exist on Linux.
Thats because Linux is not an OS like OSX and Windows are. Its just a kernel. Now if you take a Linux based OS, you will have the same results. An Ubuntu deb you install from the server will just work. If you copy that deb to another Ubuntu machine it will just work again. You can copy the settings, and your config files and it will still just work. Every deb file made for an Ubuntu release will work with every Ubuntu install that is of the same version. Its pretty simple.
I know what you are implying. You are saying that Linux (as in everything that uses the Linux kernel) does not have binary compatibility. And this is true, because such compatibility is impossible. One version of Linux runs on a router. One runs on a cell phone. One works in my Tivo. One is just to make a computer into a firewall. One is for clustering machines. One is for desktop use. One is for servers. How are you supposed to unify all of these different Linuxs into one binary file? Can you install a Windows XP file on a Windows CE device? No? but Linux takes up the role of both....and fits into the market with both. Linux is just a kernel. Operating systems matter. OSes like Ubuntu, OSX, Windows XP, SUSE, or FreeBSD. Complaining that you can't install a file on every Linux install out there is like complaining that you can't install a deb file from Ubuntu into FreeBSD even though they use the same desktop environment....they are different OSes.
If even that. And I don't care if it's 'linux's (as in the kernel) fault, or the apps that we use or try to install - it all just needs to 'work'.
Very sensible. You blame Linux (Ubuntu actually) for the faults of VMware. And then you say "I don't care if its not Ubuntu's fault, that should just work." Your demands are unreasonable.
That's my experience in Windows, and I expect the same ease of use with Linux before I'll make the switch.
If your Linux box much match exactly your experiance with Windows, you will never be happy. Ubuntu is not Windows, nor is it a copy, nor is it trying to be.
But it does not matter in the end. Ubuntu and Linux do not need you and people like you: Windows users with high demands but no desire to help and make things better. Linux will get double digit desktop use by catering to most of the world that does not own a computer yet; people who have way less needs than you and are far less picky. Plus they might actually give something back besides complaints.
Enjoy Windows, I'm glad there is an option that fits you. Just please note that Linux as a whole gains nothing by your "conversion" so there is little reason to help you with it.
What can I actually expect it to give me? Is it merely a net gain, with some slowdowns in everyday operations? Is it just going to accelerate some graphics, like games, at the expense of everything else? Does it accelerate only special effects, like fade and drop shadows, that I can certainly do without?
Xcompmgr is like what OSX has on an Apple. It uses the graphic card to draw everything. With xcompmgr on, I can have my CPU at 100% and move windows without them blurring (since my GPU is doing the work). Its the future, but if that is a work machine I would say do without it. It IS kinda unstable....great for my play around desktop but maybe bad for you.
After installing/configuring/enabling Xcompmgr, FireFox starts in 7-9s, but mplayer still says my computer is too slow. However, the video plays at proper framerate. I'd like a benchmark app to run, to get real performance numbers out of the current config, and compare them to other people's perf. Then I'd know whether I'm just too demanding.
I like VLC more. It works nice with Xcompmgr and plays everything.
I do have another problem now, since I enabled xcompmgr (-fF). A FireFox window with an animated GIF, like (usually) the Slashdot homepage, with the mplayer video window over it, shows the animated GIF through the mplayer window (even though I have not run transset). And I don't actually see any drop shadows. Can I somehow have the compositing video acceleration, without any of the special effects like fade in/out, which I don't like anyway?
Drop shadows won't work on your card. If you don't like fading....hmm.....There are many options for xcompmgr. To get them out, you have to play with this. I like the defaults.
Also, a problem I've had since I got into this with Ubuntu is now even worse: When I choose "Log Out" from the System menu, it used to take 10-20 seconds to get the dialog of choices. Now it doesn't come up at all, and the entire desktop becomes "unclickable" (no response to clicking, though the mouse moves well). I can still three-finger-salute X into killspace, and shutdown -rf now from the CLI, but that's no way to run a desktop. Killing xcompmgr removes that problem.
Welcome to xcompmgr. Thats its most famous bug. Its not actually locked up, by hitting enter you can still logout. Another famous bug is problems with fullscreen xine. Thats because xcompmgr is new. Its the next wave. It only works good on Nvidia cards, so its not perfect yet. But its the only way to use your video card's 3D stuff to accerate your Linux xserver. KDE has a compmgr built in that is nice...there is nice GUI options in the control panel for it!
I wish I could figure out what exactly is the bottleneck. There's no way that i8000/1GHz/512MB/GeForce2Go-64MB should be running that slow on Ubuntu5.04.
Hello, I'm a moderator on the Ubuntu forum. After looking at your post I conclude you need to do two things:
First you need to install and enable the official Nvidia driver. You are lucky enough to have an Nvidia card (their drivers are the best) and so you might as well get your money's worth. The directions here will guide you.
Secondly, we need to get your apps starting faster. To do that, follow this how to. I know its a Warty How To, but it will work for every Ubuntu released. And after it is done, things will speed up...
Also I know for a fact that your card will work with Xcompmgr. Look at the guide here. Don't use the drop shadows (the -cC command), just use the fading (-fF) and everything else will speed up as well (no more draw issues). I usually run the program in a terminal in my fourth desktop, out of my way. With xcompmgr and prelinking with the official drivers, on your laptop Ubuntu will fly!
Thanks for posting so much info so I could help, have a nice day.
The best way to run E17 is inside of Gnome. I call it Enlightened Gnome. Then Gnome Apps look nice, you get to have nice Gnome things like it panel and its volume manager without dealing with the worst problem in Gnome (its default Window Manager-Metacity).
If you want the full effect you have to go into Gconf and tell nautilus to not draw the desktop, but otherwise it works pretty good. I have found that overall its faster than Metacity, and is more stable with xcompmgr. I just wish I could find another way to task switch in E17 that is not alt-tab, and I hope that one day E17 will conform to Freedesktop standards so I can use Kompose with it!
Searching for information on digital cameras, especially less popular ones, often yields dozens of pages of sites that want to sell one and no descriptions of user experiences or reviews.
Simple answer, put this in Google (or whatever):
cameramodel review -checkout -buy -shipping
Then get what you want. The engines can't read your mind. They don't know if you want to buy one, see a review for one, get a hack for one, sell one, etc.
That's because there is nothing special about it. Haven't you zealots learned this yet? It is not just the idiots that run IE, many people have tried both and firefox is no better.
You are modded flamebait for a reason. If Firefox was no better, then the next IE wouldn't copy part of its feature set (RSS, tabs, etc.)?
I personally can't live without tabs anymore. Everytime I have to use IE and I have to open links in a new window I almost cry. Yeah I know "real people have more important things to do than sit around and browse the internet all day," but why not use the best tool for the job when you have to? The only places IE 6 beats Firefox is in its resource use (Firefox loves eating my CPU) and Active X crap. Otherwise, Firefox is very "special."
BTW I have never been able to figure out how to use the cd burner in nautilus. I must be looking at it the wrong way.
If you are trying to burn music CDs from Mp3s or something...it won't do that. That burner is only good for CDRs or DVDRs. You need to install Graveman or Gnomebaker (I like Graveman more). The next Ubuntu will have a program installed for this purpose by default.
So there I am all ready to apt-get gtkpod and......where is the ppp dialer? It's not there. Now I know that ubuntu tries to be lightweight but surely something could come out to make way for a gnome ppp program? Not being able to get on line pretty much ended my quest to get the ipod working.
It seems to have wvdial so I could probably have got online that way. But that is not going to help the mums and dads, though.
I'm one of the biggest helpers on the Ubuntu forum. I personally believe that Ubuntu is a broadband OS. The updates are big, and it doesn't shine till you can use synaptic on a fat pipe. I point dial-up people to Debian.
Beats the hell out of saying "A GNU/Linux/X/KDE/Gnome/etc Open Source Based Operating System combined by Linspire".
No....call it Linspire, an OS. The grandparent is right. Linspire uses the Linux kernel and GNU (and other) applications, but it is not "Linux." Using Linux as a brand for all the Distros is confusing to some..the differences might be small to some, but most of the major ones are different enough to be their OS. Mandiva OS. SuSe OS (they call it that I think). Fedora OS. Ubuntu OS. etc.
Most of the major distros provide drivers and programs and whatever people need in some sort of package system.
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Why not use both? I have IE sitting on my Linux desktop. Anytime I have site that won't work, I use IE. For the rest I use Firefox. Firefox is a much better experiance, why not just you both?
If Nvidia and ATI released their specs today Linux would still be at least 2 years behind Windows and OSX- thats how long it would take to make drivers from these specs equal to closed drivers made by ATI or Nvidia (especially Nvidia). We don't even have that. As far as I know, only one decent set of open 3D drivers exist, those for the (now very outdated) 9200 ATI cards. Those in the community that demand open drivers will happily hold back the Linux desktop till the open drivers are ready, even if the closed Nvidia driver is better today.
Unlike the author, I see the solution in the "bandaids." No way will many in the community switch over to Xgl when good open drivers for 70% of graphic cards don't exist. The solution is to sneak around these people.
Step 1: Modularize Xorg. This will hopefully push ATI to make better Linux drivers (they already did much better this year).
Step 2: Extend Xorg with EVA and the like. Let them either use open source 3D acceration if its there (not most of the time) and closed acceration when its not.
Step 3: Watch as most desktop Linux users prefer to use the closed drivers that give them eye candy TODAY rather than wait for some open drivers to do it years from now. This gets around the developers that won't improve eye candy till the open drivers are there....
I am a rare species- someone who prefers Linux for its eye candy. I have bought two Nvidia cards because of the quality of their CLOSED drivers, and the fact that those plus xcompmgr make my desktop pretty. I don't care that EVA or Xcompmgr are kludges on top of bandaids. I care that they work. I care that I don't have to wait till someone makes the open source drivers to get eye candy. I want my fading, drop shadows, and wobbly windows NOW and I (along with most people) are more than willing to trade software freedom to do it.
The problem is that the freedom zealots in the community know that. The pratical ones know that most people don't give a damn about driver freedom, and that if they don't stop it (or slow it down by not helping Xgl) one day the Linux desktop will be like MS's or OSX's- seen through closed drivers only. I don't know if its the spoiled brat in me or what....but I don't care. I want eye candy NOW. Not 5 years from now when the open source solutions are in place. So do many other people. This want will get around the zealots and desktop Linux will be closed but beautiful....I hope.
2) Either advocate the adoption of Linux and, in exchange, offer your services to your new customers (the fact that you work for free is your own damn problem)... OR stop advertising Linux for people who are not developers themselves and concentrate on making software for only yourself and your fellow developers to tinker with.
3) Either claim that Linux is at least as user-friendly as Windows and listen and address your customers' feedback (the fact that you work for free is your own damn problem)... OR make things only work as easy as you yourself would prefer and offer no user support for products you've developed
Who is this "you" you are talking to? The Linux community at large? A certain one from the community? Problem is you can't do that. There is no "you." This isn't like MS or Apple. Its "you all." "They." Plural. There is more human diversity in the Linux community than outside it.
For each of your options, a few of the "they" would pick the first option and a few would pick the second. Thats why you get the bipolar opinions of Linux. But it can't be avoided, because there is no single entity to control it. Linux's "marketing department" is not right down the hall from the "sales department" and the "finance department." It not unified. Thats what the whole freedom thing is really about...deep down. So it might stumble along in a way a company never would, but its still stumbling along. In TiVos, Cell Phones, Routers, Cars and Playstation 3's in the future.
Both are. Synaptic in Ubuntu. The GUI might be nerdier than you would like, but you can't miss the HUGE update button.
Let's just say: It ain't the cost of the distro, folks. It's keeping it running. That's expensive, and you guys all seem to think you deserve top dollar. You seem to think "If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." You know what? You're right. You keep the more esoteric parts of Linux close to your chest, just obscure enough so no one else QUITE knows what's going on, then you're "needed." That's exactly right, and that's why you are going away.
and this:
Remember, I'm not smiling about Linux issues: I'm out to get you.
Are awesome. Part blind emotion, part truth, part ignorance and part genius....
I have been thinking about it a lot. This whole Gnu thing seems to be a generational gap type of deal. We have the old guard, like this fellow would be more than happy to oursource all our jobs if it would make his product better and cheaper while not trusting anything that does not have the same selfish core philosophy, and you have the GNU "hippies" who go around giving everythign away for free in order to remain relevant and to save users from themselves.
I really liked this rant. I can not see through the other side, but I have come to some of the same conclusions....I just like the idea of increasing my value (this poster doesn't) and I like the idea of Libre software (this poster doesn't care). But we can come to the same conclusions. Neat.
Its irrelvent. Just like any generational trend, the younger crowd will end up winning. Linux might never be on the parent poster's Desktop, but it will sneek into his cell phone, his tivo, his car computer or his firewall. He would have to go out of his way to avoid it. And that is why the arguement doesn't matter. But its fun to read.
Well...the thing is...this has already been happening. I was born in N.O. and my family spent most of their lives there. But ever since the 80's N.O. has gone downhill...its traded its big port contracts for a bunch of drunk tourists. Already a brain drain was happening, and the economy was going downhill. This will just increase the effect....its so sad.
They will rebuild my hometown as some damn Las Vegas copy. Jump in head first with the vice and glamour to pay for all the damage. And all the decent folks will continue to move away. I miss my home state, but now it seems I might never be able to go back and make a decent living...
But not to you, Mr. Asshole. To you, its THEIR fault this happened. Its my grandmothers fault that her house is under water right now (which is why I am so mad at your heartless comment). I mean 40 years ago she COULD have bought it somewhere else, except for the fact that my grandfather's job was in New Orleans and they didn't have the means to live else where. But no, you are right, its her fault.
This shit makes me sooo mad. And to see such cold tripe modded up....sad day...
Thanks a lot. Thats my home town....those are some good links.
Long opinion... I can see you are honest. I am a moderator at the Ubuntu forum, but you seem to be a prime candidate for SUSE. Its a little easier, and has a KDE/Gnome independent GUI tool for almost anything. Ubuntu is for nerdier people, or workstations for non nerds set up by nerdy people. SUSE is an easy to use desktop. Try 9.3 and see, its free.
Thats because Linux is not an OS like OSX and Windows are. Its just a kernel. Now if you take a Linux based OS, you will have the same results. An Ubuntu deb you install from the server will just work. If you copy that deb to another Ubuntu machine it will just work again. You can copy the settings, and your config files and it will still just work. Every deb file made for an Ubuntu release will work with every Ubuntu install that is of the same version. Its pretty simple.
I know what you are implying. You are saying that Linux (as in everything that uses the Linux kernel) does not have binary compatibility. And this is true, because such compatibility is impossible. One version of Linux runs on a router. One runs on a cell phone. One works in my Tivo. One is just to make a computer into a firewall. One is for clustering machines. One is for desktop use. One is for servers. How are you supposed to unify all of these different Linuxs into one binary file? Can you install a Windows XP file on a Windows CE device? No? but Linux takes up the role of both....and fits into the market with both. Linux is just a kernel. Operating systems matter. OSes like Ubuntu, OSX, Windows XP, SUSE, or FreeBSD. Complaining that you can't install a file on every Linux install out there is like complaining that you can't install a deb file from Ubuntu into FreeBSD even though they use the same desktop environment....they are different OSes.
Hope you learned something.
Very sensible. You blame Linux (Ubuntu actually) for the faults of VMware. And then you say "I don't care if its not Ubuntu's fault, that should just work." Your demands are unreasonable.
That's my experience in Windows, and I expect the same ease of use with Linux before I'll make the switch.
If your Linux box much match exactly your experiance with Windows, you will never be happy. Ubuntu is not Windows, nor is it a copy, nor is it trying to be.
But it does not matter in the end. Ubuntu and Linux do not need you and people like you: Windows users with high demands but no desire to help and make things better. Linux will get double digit desktop use by catering to most of the world that does not own a computer yet; people who have way less needs than you and are far less picky. Plus they might actually give something back besides complaints.
Enjoy Windows, I'm glad there is an option that fits you. Just please note that Linux as a whole gains nothing by your "conversion" so there is little reason to help you with it.
Xcompmgr is like what OSX has on an Apple. It uses the graphic card to draw everything. With xcompmgr on, I can have my CPU at 100% and move windows without them blurring (since my GPU is doing the work). Its the future, but if that is a work machine I would say do without it. It IS kinda unstable....great for my play around desktop but maybe bad for you.
I like VLC more. It works nice with Xcompmgr and plays everything.
I do have another problem now, since I enabled xcompmgr (-fF). A FireFox window with an animated GIF, like (usually) the Slashdot homepage, with the mplayer video window over it, shows the animated GIF through the mplayer window (even though I have not run transset). And I don't actually see any drop shadows. Can I somehow have the compositing video acceleration, without any of the special effects like fade in/out, which I don't like anyway?
Drop shadows won't work on your card. If you don't like fading....hmm.....There are many options for xcompmgr. To get them out, you have to play with this. I like the defaults.
Also, a problem I've had since I got into this with Ubuntu is now even worse: When I choose "Log Out" from the System menu, it used to take 10-20 seconds to get the dialog of choices. Now it doesn't come up at all, and the entire desktop becomes "unclickable" (no response to clicking, though the mouse moves well). I can still three-finger-salute X into killspace, and shutdown -rf now from the CLI, but that's no way to run a desktop. Killing xcompmgr removes that problem.
Welcome to xcompmgr. Thats its most famous bug. Its not actually locked up, by hitting enter you can still logout. Another famous bug is problems with fullscreen xine. Thats because xcompmgr is new. Its the next wave. It only works good on Nvidia cards, so its not perfect yet. But its the only way to use your video card's 3D stuff to accerate your Linux xserver. KDE has a compmgr built in that is nice...there is nice GUI options in the control panel for it!
Hello, I'm a moderator on the Ubuntu forum. After looking at your post I conclude you need to do two things:
First you need to install and enable the official Nvidia driver. You are lucky enough to have an Nvidia card (their drivers are the best) and so you might as well get your money's worth. The directions here will guide you.
Secondly, we need to get your apps starting faster. To do that, follow this how to. I know its a Warty How To, but it will work for every Ubuntu released. And after it is done, things will speed up...
Also I know for a fact that your card will work with Xcompmgr. Look at the guide here. Don't use the drop shadows (the -cC command), just use the fading (-fF) and everything else will speed up as well (no more draw issues). I usually run the program in a terminal in my fourth desktop, out of my way. With xcompmgr and prelinking with the official drivers, on your laptop Ubuntu will fly!
Thanks for posting so much info so I could help, have a nice day.
Looks prettier. And can run faster (I know it sounds like I'm lying, but I'm not). Its amazing. Its just kinda harder to use.
I could kiss you. Thats exactly what I needed. Goodby for life Metacity.
deb http://ubuntu.nooms.de/ hoary/
To get it to work I had to comment out the Universe line.
If you want the full effect you have to go into Gconf and tell nautilus to not draw the desktop, but otherwise it works pretty good. I have found that overall its faster than Metacity, and is more stable with xcompmgr. I just wish I could find another way to task switch in E17 that is not alt-tab, and I hope that one day E17 will conform to Freedesktop standards so I can use Kompose with it!
Simple answer, put this in Google (or whatever):
cameramodel review -checkout -buy -shipping
Then get what you want. The engines can't read your mind. They don't know if you want to buy one, see a review for one, get a hack for one, sell one, etc.
You are modded flamebait for a reason. If Firefox was no better, then the next IE wouldn't copy part of its feature set (RSS, tabs, etc.)?
I personally can't live without tabs anymore. Everytime I have to use IE and I have to open links in a new window I almost cry. Yeah I know "real people have more important things to do than sit around and browse the internet all day," but why not use the best tool for the job when you have to? The only places IE 6 beats Firefox is in its resource use (Firefox loves eating my CPU) and Active X crap. Otherwise, Firefox is very "special."
Way off topic, but I had to say thats the best sig ever. I wasnt alive when the "daisy" commercial was aired, but I know what it is. Kudos.
This is so true. Remember people- its because of MS that people THROW THEIR COMPUTERS AWAY when they are filled with Spyware.
If you are trying to burn music CDs from Mp3s or something...it won't do that. That burner is only good for CDRs or DVDRs. You need to install Graveman or Gnomebaker (I like Graveman more). The next Ubuntu will have a program installed for this purpose by default.
I'm one of the biggest helpers on the Ubuntu forum. I personally believe that Ubuntu is a broadband OS. The updates are big, and it doesn't shine till you can use synaptic on a fat pipe. I point dial-up people to Debian.
No....call it Linspire, an OS. The grandparent is right. Linspire uses the Linux kernel and GNU (and other) applications, but it is not "Linux." Using Linux as a brand for all the Distros is confusing to some..the differences might be small to some, but most of the major ones are different enough to be their OS. Mandiva OS. SuSe OS (they call it that I think). Fedora OS. Ubuntu OS. etc.
Most of the major distros provide drivers and programs and whatever people need in some sort of package system.
As RMS says, Linux is a kernel.