Monday, June 12, 2006

Yay for *nix

Not to me outdone by Carly's geekness I now also have Ubuntu installed on my comp. Here is how it looks after spending a couple of minutes to get E running and looking pretty:



So yeah, I think I got this for doing work from home ... just in case I feel to lazy to walk outside to the bus. Now that I am done blogging let me boot back into into the 3v1l empire to game.
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7 comments:

  1. Shawn Penson20:19

    Did you use a second hard drive or just partition the one you had?
    Did you need space on your primary drive for a boot partition because ive heard linux needs that? Are you useing GRUB or LILO?

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  2. Carly07:29

    I see you got E working, it was a bit of a pain but you needed to install a few more bits from Synaptic.

    My next trick will be to somehow play midi's. I'm learning to play backup and I can't play fiddle and mandolin at the same time so I found midi files.

    Yeah for geekiness!!! And you win, I never posted screen caps (though I have posted about linux several times....)

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  3. frank07:47

    I partitioned the drive I have since my old drive was sarting to fail. GRUB bootlader, LILO has some problems with large drives that I do not care to deal with.

    What you need to do to get E running proper on your machine is do a middle click, go into maintanence and hit "Regenerate Menues" ... for some reason E does not do this on initial boot. Then change your menus to your hearts delight and restart E :)

    If you are looking for audio recording/editing programs here are a couple of good linux ones to check out:

    1.) Sweep
    2.) Freecycle
    3.) Audacity
    4.) Glame
    5.) ReZound

    Sweep was desiged for and used by Pixar and is now freeware, it's supposed to be really cool ... I have not really used any of these myself much, but hey mybe you can find these useful :)

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  4. Carly18:55

    The regenerate menus thing still hadn't worked for me until I loaded in another module.

    As for the midi playing, it's not the program so much as getting the midi player integrated with the midi part of the sound card. You can get players that will take midi, convert it to some kind of wav or something and feed that to the sound card but that's not using the midi capabilities. Anyway, I'm following it up (slowly) in the forums.

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  5. Shawn Penson19:55

    It's also good to have the newest versions of KDE and Gnome because Enlightenment steals their menues. You get all the KDE and Gnome apps appearing in your E menues as a result.

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  6. frank09:27

    Agreed with shawn the KDE/GNOME support is exellent since there are many great tools programmed for K/GTK ..

    Well sounds like you have wverything figured out Carly, have fun wreteling with your soundscard.

    On other news, I got ut2k4 running in linux as well, asn with ubuntu getting the propriatary videodrivers going was a breeze ... i should have tried this earlier. Could have stuck with cedega, and not sold out to the man. I still feel dirty because of that :(

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  7. Shawn Penson21:57

    Dito. I wash and wash but the stick of windows will just not come off. Oh the shame.

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