Beryl & Ubuntu on Fertile
A fewdays ago, I re-christened Mr. Fertile (my desktop), to Fertile. No No! It didn’t undergo any gender change, as you may think of! >:O) This is for these reasons:
- Discrimination in any sense is sin.
- There is nothing special with Fertile to justify its gender.
- “Mr” appear more like initials. But there aren’t any. Shudn’t be a parody of someone called “Mr”.
- Hostnames doesn’t allow dots. So I had to replace with an awkward underscore, which spoils the whole purpose.
- Fertile, whether being male/female/clueless will be & is fertile.
- Fertile’s friends, social networks & hangouts are genderfree. >:O)
Ok. Fertile after some initial hiccups, now runs Ubuntu Edgy. With projects such as EasyUbuntu, Linux has set-free from its Unix worlds. Play DVDs, MP3s, WMAs, DivX,… with a few clicks & an internet connection. Life in the Linux world has become so easy.
Running pirated copies of Windows is like allowing people to eat the food you prepare for their life time; that too for free & with no obligations! How does that sound? >:O) Being a software engineer & supporting/practising piracy is a blunder. If you have got money, buy a genuine copy of Windows. I hope you’ll have money to keep upgrading ur PC for every 3 years. The news is Windows Vista requires atleast 1 GB of RAM to run convincingly well, hold on, with the Aero interface switched off! It all boils down to our inability to open ourselves & adapt to the alternative systems. Think about it!
Ok. If you wanna some Vista like eyecandy in Ubuntu, there is a window manager called Beryl. Check this video:
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I’m able to run flawless on a Intel 915g chipset with a Pentium4. Alt-Tabbing is so much fun thing to do. The windows behave like as if its made out of flubber! Gives Vista’s Aero like interface. Glassy looks. This is super cool. Try it out. It’ll be sexy on LCDs.
This is a ScreenShot of one of the themes:
Notice the glow & background blurs? >:O) BTW, its done with HW accelerated OpenGL. >:O)
Janitri said,
February 23, 2007 at 11:29 pm
he ha ha… upgrading pc every 3 years??? I tht. it needs to be done atleast fortnightly :P
Man.. you really have a loooooooot of patience to write so very patiently with too many technical details and screenshots that ppl. like me who usually prefers to stay away from these can also understand :)
Janitri said,
February 23, 2007 at 5:59 pm
he ha ha… upgrading pc every 3 years??? I tht. it needs to be done atleast fortnightly :P
Man.. you really have a loooooooot of patience to write so very patiently with too many technical details and screenshots that ppl. like me who usually prefers to stay away from these can also understand :)
dreams said,
February 25, 2007 at 2:11 am
namma kadai pakkam vandhamaiku nanri! eppadi pidicheenga namma kadiaya!
enna ubuntuvo, en thambiyum itha install panni uyira vaanguraan :)
unga bloga vilavariya vandhu apparam padikiran okey!
dreams said,
February 24, 2007 at 8:41 pm
namma kadai pakkam vandhamaiku nanri! eppadi pidicheenga namma kadiaya!
enna ubuntuvo, en thambiyum itha install panni uyira vaanguraan :)
unga bloga vilavariya vandhu apparam padikiran okey!
Ponnarasi.K said,
February 25, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Inga paaru da :P Ithu peru thaan talent’a :P Screenshot full’a therilaye.. WHY?
Ponnarasi.K said,
February 25, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Inga paaru da :P Ithu peru thaan talent'a :P Screenshot full'a therilaye.. WHY?
Ranjhith said,
February 26, 2007 at 10:45 am
Janitri,
Welcome back. You come like a Storm & go like a Breeze. >:O) Yep – Screenshots & other examples would convince people to try it out! What you are mentioning is a side effect. >:O) Thanks for noting it.
Dreams,
Welcome to thŕattle dreams. Namma sidebarla irrukara BuddyBlog list aa paarunga, link puriyum. >:O) Ubuntu superinga, Windows ikku thanni kaatuthu. >:O) Hmm. Vaanga Vaanga appala.
Goldu,
Vanakkam! Talent aa? Yenna sollurenga? It would hav been my talent if I had written Beryl – No No – I hav just installed it – ithula yengeenga talent? :(
This screenshot is like a PassPort size photo :P – venungarathu mattum highlight panninaa poathum! :)
ranjhith said,
February 26, 2007 at 5:15 am
Janitri,
Welcome back. You come like a Storm & go like a Breeze. >:O) Yep – Screenshots & other examples would convince people to try it out! What you are mentioning is a side effect. >:O) Thanks for noting it.
Dreams,
Welcome to thŕattle dreams. Namma sidebarla irrukara BuddyBlog list aa paarunga, link puriyum. >:O) Ubuntu superinga, Windows ikku thanni kaatuthu. >:O) Hmm. Vaanga Vaanga appala.
Goldu,
Vanakkam! Talent aa? Yenna sollurenga? It would hav been my talent if I had written Beryl – No No – I hav just installed it – ithula yengeenga talent? :(
This screenshot is like a PassPort size photo :P – venungarathu mattum highlight panninaa poathum! :)
Nirek said,
February 27, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Beryl gives interesting interface to ubuntu. Hope it clicks!
Ranjhith said,
February 27, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Nirek,
Yep. Its really interesting to work with it too. But, has some problems with ATI/nVidia cards. But so far its a hit! >:O)
Nirek said,
February 27, 2007 at 11:38 am
Beryl gives interesting interface to ubuntu. Hope it clicks!
ranjhith said,
February 27, 2007 at 11:55 am
Nirek,
Yep. Its really interesting to work with it too. But, has some problems with ATI/nVidia cards. But so far its a hit! >:O)