Ubuntu!

Anyone been tempted to play around with this linux distro, or any other for that matter?

I saw the XGL demos that wayne (I think) posted here and was suitably impressed - I'm a sucker for cool UI effects (but only ones that dont cripple your OS...vista!).

Anyway, I've been busily playing around installing linux (ubuntu), and then trying to get XGL effects to work - and it all works now! I'm totally addicted at the moment, its like I have a whole new computer with new tools I can use (and yes a cube desktop )!! I'm even playing around installing RubyOnRails at the moment, although I have no intent at all to rid myself of .NET and especially LLBLGEn....its just a nice change

Anyway, you should all have a play around, its a real eye opener to see how linux is doing these days - you learn a lot about what is crap in windows, but you also learn about what is good in windows !!

Thats me, have a good weekend!

MattWoberts wrote:

Ubuntu!

Anyone been tempted to play around with this linux distro, or any other for that matter?

I've had Ubuntu 5 and also 6 on my laptop for some time, but I recently purchased a wireless hub so I could access the network also from another location than my desk, but I couldn't make dapper drake use WPA with the wifi card in the laptop (dell inspiron). Of course everyone had this working except me, so after a lot of frustrating hours and countless tutorials, I gave up and installed Suse 10.1.

Suse is 'ok', but the GUI isn't as stable as you'd like (tip: go for gnome.).

I saw the XGL demos that wayne (I think) posted here and was suitably impressed - I'm a sucker for cool UI effects (but only ones that dont cripple your OS...vista!).

Anyway, I've been busily playing around installing linux (ubuntu), and then trying to get XGL effects to work - and it all works now! I'm totally addicted at the moment, its like I have a whole new computer with new tools I can use (and yes a cube desktop )!!

whoa! Is it now made more easier than it was a couple of months ago? I have a lame intel graphic thingy in my laptop so it won't even think of running on that I think. What I saw a couple of months ago to get it running was pretty complicated.

I'm even playing around installing RubyOnRails at the moment, although I have no intent at all to rid myself of .NET and especially LLBLGEn....its just a nice change

Anyway, you should all have a play around, its a real eye opener to see how linux is doing these days - you learn a lot about what is crap in windows, but you also learn about what is good in windows !!

hehe yeah, you'll soon learn that Windows is quite stable, nice, and deterministic. Ubuntu is more solid than the rest though.

MattWoberts wrote:

Ubuntu!

Anyone been tempted to play around with this linux distro, or any other for that matter?

I saw the XGL demos that wayne (I think) posted here and was suitably impressed - I'm a sucker for cool UI effects (but only ones that dont cripple your OS...vista!).

Anyway, I've been busily playing around installing linux (ubuntu), and then trying to get XGL effects to work - and it all works now! I'm totally addicted at the moment, its like I have a whole new computer with new tools I can use (and yes a cube desktop )!! I'm even playing around installing RubyOnRails at the moment, although I have no intent at all to rid myself of .NET and especially LLBLGEn....its just a nice change

Anyway, you should all have a play around, its a real eye opener to see how linux is doing these days - you learn a lot about what is crap in windows, but you also learn about what is good in windows !!

Thats me, have a good weekend!

I had it on my laptop for a while, but threw Windows back on so it could run WoW. At work, I have it on 2 of our servers, for use in Ruby on Rails development. Didn't SuSe/Novell start the XGL stuff? Any good tutorials for getting this setup on Ubuntu?

Just wanted to chime in that you can run generated .NET code (including LLBLGen code!!) on Linux using Mono, so you can still benefit from LLBLGen, you can't use the designer.

You could always use the designer inside of VMWare or another application like that, though!

wojo wrote:

Just wanted to chime in that you can run generated .NET code (including LLBLGen code!!) on Linux using Mono, so you can still benefit from LLBLGen, you can't use the designer.

You could always use the designer inside of VMWare or another application like that, though!

Yeah I wrote a Gtk# application using LLBLGen entities, all compiled under Mono. I used the win32 version of mono, not Ubuntu's though. Sharpdevelop is pretty good.

Yeah I looked at MonoDevelop on Ubuntu. I mean its great what they have achived and everything, but it doesn't come close to VS.NET for features, and the ASP.net stuff does seem a little behind... worth keeping an eye on though.

Anyway, getting cool xgl effects in ubuntu is easy!!! All you need to do is get your gfx card working properly, and then get to installing the xgl stuff. The guide I used which works really well is here: http://www.compiz.net/viewtopic.php?id=389

Its worth it for the 3d cube effects alone. I'm actually finding it can be pretty productive with these features too, most people think of them as just 3d eyecandy gone mad