Sunday
29Jul2007
sunday afternoon pottering
Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 6:20PM
Just been playing with Beryl desktop effects on Ubuntu. Wonderful what you can get from 3-year-old hardware if you use an efficient operating system. For all the brouhaha about desktop effects on Vista, you'd think Microsoft had invented the wheel. Linux could breath life into many of the second-hand systems you see for peanuts in the newspaper.
Also been playing with my other site, but nothing ready to rock and roll yet.
Right, must get back to that copy...
Also been playing with my other site, but nothing ready to rock and roll yet.
Right, must get back to that copy...
Reader Comments (4)
I can echo that - my computer wouldn't, I don't think, even run Vista but it runs Ubuntu quite happily.
Hi Dave,
My desktop was cutting edge when I bought it. So even though it's a few years old, I'm pretty sure I could run Vista. Why I'd want to is another matter...
Switching to Ubuntu has been an eye opener to an old MacUser like me. And for that I thank Political Penguin who badgered me into making the switch.
Can anyone use Ubuntu?
Hi James,
Yeah - really easy to install, and if you can live without Windows software, there is no reason not to swap. Plus there is always WINE to emulate many windows programmes like office.
Don't go crazy though, drop me an email before you install