Linux Desktop Users

[Sean]

Just getting the social groups system rolling, thought I would add an Ubuntu group

 

[Eric Rose]

Hi Sean. So I have Mandrake or as it's called now Mandriva. Does Ubuntu have all the same stuff?? I need a webserver for testing, an FTP server and be able to tie it into my winblows network.

 

[jd callow]

I'm a geek!!! and it look like I'm a joiner too. Geeze i need a life

 

[Eric Rose]

Also anyone have experience with Joomla?

 

[rob champagne]

I'm not an ubuntu user. But I've played with Joomla. It's OK. Very powerful but there is alot to get your head around. Really depends what you want to do with it and whether there are plugins already available for what you want to do.
If you need to write your own plugins, then there is a a very steep learning curve to do so.
I find some of the Joomla sites I have visited to be slow performing. Its very heavy on php and MySQL so you need to run it on a quick server.

As for webserver testing, take a look at

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

there is a version for Mandrake and it makes life really simple for setup of everything you need.

 

[Sean]

I think I'll rename the group to Linux Users

 

[Trond]

I have been using Linux for the last nine years. Currently a very happy Debian user, running Debian testing on my laptop, and Debian stable on my webserver.

I set up a Joomla site a couple of years ago. It worked fine, although the administration interface was incredibly confusing and overly complicated. Hopefully it's better now. Currently I'm using Wordpress, and I am happy with that.

 

[Ian Grant]

Another long term user of Linux, starting with Red hat quite a few years ago.

 

[Denis P.]

Another long-term Linux user here (SuSE for the last 5-6 years as my main OS)

 

[Sean]

looks like my ubuntu auto update just took me to firefox 3.0 gold, cool off to get some ZzzzZzzz

*edit, actually i think it might just be RC2 'help-about' doesn't say. it's speedy though!

 

[Lee L]

Been dual booting since I recovered an entire XP hard drive that wouldn't boot in Windows any more, using a Knoppix live disc. Still dual boot, but have booted XP only three times in the last four years for specific programs. I've run several distros, but settled on Ubuntu since 5.04. I keep an extra box to try out interesting new distros.

Lee

 

[Ulrich Drolshagen]

Hi,

I use Linux since the early 90's. It was Slackware-Distribution with Kernel 0.96pl12 or something like that then. Very early stage. I got it on dozens of 3.5" diskettes copied by a friend of mine using a PC-pool at the university. Sold my SVR4 afterwards. It was a PITA anyway. I am using SuSE 10.3 just now.

Ulrich

 

[Ian Tindale]

I use Ubuntu to teach my students about Linux, but at home I run a headless Gentoo machine.

Oh, I see, I join this end of the message queue, not the end I thought I was responding to. That means I've read each message backwards, and therefore my response will make about as much sense as a Martian cheesemonger.

Oh, and someone start up a group about beer, will you?

 

[jd callow]

your wish:

Oh, and someone start up a group about beer, will you?


My command...

 

[Sean]

So.. what desktop do you guys prefer? I am currently on Gnome, I use a panel at top for shortcuts and one below for active windows. I use compiz so I can mousewheel between desktops. I have not tried other desktops yet so how would you go about trialing one without losing your current setup?

 

[Lee L]

Sean,

With Ubuntu (and probably many other distros) you can install multiple desktops and choose when starting X which desktop environment you want. I have a second box that will do xfce, kde, or gnome, and remembers user preference for each user in my family. There are meta-packages in the repositories for doing this: xubuntu-desktop = xfce, kubuntu-desktop = kde, enlightenment, and some others. You can choose which to use with the "Session" button when logging into X.

Lee

Just checked, and it looks like openbox, fluxbox, icewm, and fvwm are also in the repositories. I haven't run them on ubuntu. I have tried fvwm and icewm before, fvwm with an early RedHat, but haven't used them extensively.

 

[Sean]

Cool, I'll have a look when I feel a geek moment coming on

 

[Sean]

wow, all day apug has seemed slow, so i pop open my firefox console and lots of errors. but i go to to other vbulletin sites and same errors. I switch to the RC previous and everything is lightning and no errors. So just fyi, maybe my install is corrupt or the latest rc has issues. I think they are going gold any day now so maybe that will help..

 

[Lee L]

Two monitor gamma setting utilities that I thought might be useful for those here:

gammapage
http://www.pcbypaul.com/software/GAMMApage.html

monica
http://www.pcbypaul.com/software/monica.html

gammapage is available in the ubuntu repositories and at getdeb.net for anyone with a debian based system.

Lee

 

[arigram]

Unfortunately I've found that the Linux photographic workflow is seriously lacking.
Gimp doesn't do 16bit, my Canon inkjet is not supported fully (I use it to print CD/DVD labels, not pictures),
there isn't a more intuitive way to handle color spaces, etc.
Atleast Vuescan is pretty good, much better than XSane which screws up on negative scanning for example.
Thus I am forced to run Photoshop through Wine and double boot to Windows XP for the printer.
Oh and Hardy for some reason doesn't burn UDF disks well, making them appear empty...
Good thing I don't do digital photography!
I sound grumpy, but I am very happy with Ubuntu and Linux in general.

 

[Sean]

I am close to trying photoshop and dreamweaver in wine. I didn't have much luck but maybe the new release is better. Will try it and post back. Oh, and if anyone is into streaming radio I tried quite a few apps and settled on Amarok which has all the shoutcast radio stations listed 100's to choose from and stream. great for working to!

 

[Lee L]

I worked out a business model shooting film and scanning and editing in linux, using native linux software or other software under wine. My film scanner's M$ driver support was dropped by the mfgr when XP appeared, but it's supported through Feisty in Ubuntu, and runs great with Viewscan. I use Picture Window Pro 3.51(?) under Wine, 16 bpp (before Photoshop was) and much more intuitive for a photographer. You can also use Pixel (commercial), Krita, and Cinepaint for 16 bits/pixel in linux. Gimp should be 16bpp with the next major update after 2.4, when the GEGL integration is in place. This fall?

I like VLC for streaming audio, and have also used Rhythmbox happily to play FLAC files from another networked computer.

I quit using Dreamweaver when I moved to linux. I found Nvu worked for what I needed at the time, now it would be Kompozer, but I don't maintain web pages anymore.

Lee

 

[arigram]

Is there a plugin for Gimp that clears dust out of a print?
Infrared only works with negatives in VueScan and somehow, the scanning process is able to pick up dust and hair from a print that are impossible for the human eye to see. As much as I clean the scanner and print, they don't seem to go away.

 

[Lee L]

Ari,

Have you checked the bottom side of the scanner glass, opposite the print? Mine needs to be cleaned, but I haven't had the time to disassemble and clean it. Newer versions of the GIMP have a "healing brush", but I don't know of an automated dust removal plug-in off the top of my head. I usually do that in Picture Window with scanned negatives.

You're aware of the GIMP plug-in registry? Dead Link Removed

Lee

 

[arigram]

Thanks Lee, but I went through all these steps before I asked for help here. I even posted in Ubuntu Forums, but I rarely get any answer to my questions and problems there.