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Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 vs OS X Leopard - Part 4

In Ubuntu 7.10 Enabling Compiz-Fusion is your first step closer to getting eyecandy visual effects and functionality similar to OS X Leopard. If you havent enabled it yet, watch my video tutorial here.

The beauty of Ubuntu 7.10 is it comes with Compiz Fusion pre-installed and on supported hardware offers a wide variety of Visual Effects beyond OS Leopard .

Depending on your graphic card and GPU/CPU power you have from three levels of Visual Effects to enable (In Ubuntu Go to System -> Preferences -> Appearance ).


Visual Effects Tab shows the options which are:
None,Basic(simple visual effects like shadows , fading windows-menus) and Advanced.

I recommend you select Advanced to turn on effects like wobbly windows, transparency , animated workspace switching and the 3D Cube.


To further enable and customize more Desktop Effects, you need to enable the Compiz Configuration Manager by typing the following in a Termial Window:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
sudo apt-get install emerald
After you have installed this , you wil see the option "Advanced Desktop Effects Settings" as shown in the image above.

Now instead chose the menu option for "Advanced Desktop Effects Settings", and you will get a screen similar to this:


Notice under the "Desktop" heading of the configuration window there are visuals and features similar to OS X Leopard already, such as showing the desktop while having transparent windows, having virtual spaces and switching between them in various ways.


All of these and more can be done in Ubuntu aswell , just check off the boxes in the "Advanced Desktop Effects Settings" beside what you want. I found these to be a good balance of neat visual effects and functionality which did not affect my PC's performance.



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Written by PCWizKid on February 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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Ubuntu 7.x - Quick Installation Review


This is the first video review of Ubuntu 7, starting with a quick introduction of getting Ubuntu and installing it.



This Review shows the installation process with the assumption that you may have already partitioned your hard drives and have space ready for installing
the operating system in a dual boot scenario with Windows XP already installed.

Watch the quick review tutorial
SEE also PART 2 Review of Ubuntu can be read here

Written by PCWizKid on December 13th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Ubuntu 7.10 - Gutsy Gibbon - Pros and Cons

Are you ready to make that leap towards a different Operating system other than Windows? Cant afford a Mac? Well if "free" is in your budget look no further. The latest open source release of the OS Ubuntu 7.10 - codename Gutsy Gibbon is out and waiting for you. I must say I am impressed. Though If its Eyecandy your looking for, make sure you have a decent video card such as the GeForce 8500GTwhich is affordable entry level beauty.

Like with anything you buy (though Ubuntu is free) you're probably going to weigh the pros and cons first. Here are my observations in no particular order.

Pros:

Cons:

Conclusion:
The much anticipated wait is over. Ubuntu 7.10 is worth every penny (though its free) and I highly recommend it for all those who dont mind installing 3rd party open source apps.

Written by PCWizKid on November 19th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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