I am back and gutsified....(May be!)

It's been a long time since I've penned (typed) down something. A little bit of assignments, a little bit of ubuntu (linux distro) experience and a hell lot of lethargy has contributed to staying away from blogging. Nightouts with a purpose of ubuntufying my system and hell I've gutsified (Ubuntu 7.10 is code named gutsy gibbon) my system to the extent of it being gutsy gibbon.

Integrating compiz in gutys is a great feature. I am crossing my fingers for the next release of Ubuntu 8.04 code named Hardy Heron. Interesting philosophy behind the codification protocol is that every new release of Ubuntu has to has 2 parts. The first word has to be an adjective (like hardy, gutsy, feisty) and the second word has to be an animal (like Heron, Gibbon, Fawn respectively). The next release is due in April 2008. A little bit of head and you can guess the versions (6.06, 7.04, 7.10 and upcoming 8.04) are based on the month and date of release.

I'll talk a little more about what I have and how my desktop on Gutsy looks once I make my blog post from Linux. I'll also talk about how to be smart with dual booting having linux and windows together. The best part about this version is that for the first time on my lappy I have the famous compiz cube running.

Signing off...

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And who said linux wasn't eye-candy..

Ignorance is bliss but not always. Definitely not when you have not tried any of the latest distros of linux. Linux beats the eye-candy effect of any of the operating systems. Be it Microsoft Vista or a Mac. Don't believe me. See for yourself.

This is not even close to my average level of creativity. What you see is my desktop of Ubuntu 7.04 popularly called as Feisty Fawn. There has been an alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10 code named gutsy gibbon. But I have not upgraded as the support for the repositories is missing.

The fading fire that you see in this picture is not part of the wallpaper but is a functionality of beryl window manager. When a window is closed it fades away like the one is above picture. I could not capture the wobbly desktop effects. This is a true master piece. More and more softwares are being supported. As you can see there is Adobe reader, skype and opera to name a few.

To capture the essence of what I feel about open source, I have made an entry for ubunutu in vista's boot loader as "Crusader of Free World".

Let there be piece and people get more chances of unleashing the power of community development.

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Really Caught up..

I don't know when this happened, but I am not the same person anymore. I just got to know from Nik that Ubuntu has come up with a new alpha release code named gutsy gibbon. Call it for the flavor of open source or strong community support, none of the Linux distros have excited me more than Ubuntu. More about gutsy gibbon.

The first thing that I am going to go today is hit www.torrentz.com and search for partition magic for Vista. Install it. Simultaneously download gutsy gibbon and get back to my good old days of playing with Linux. I am sure I haven't lost a technique to prove myself worthy of being "Crusader of open source". Long live community development. Peace!