Make Compiz Run Smoothly and Without Tearing
tombuntu.com — If you're running the Compiz window manager on your Linux system you might notice it doesn't slide windows around smoothly, and causes occasional video tearing. The fix? Sync up Compiz to your monitor's refresh rate. (Submitted by motang) More...
Transform Ubuntu into a Media Center with XBMC
tombuntu.com — Linux has come a long way in support for multimedia and graphics. Today we will see how to transform Ubuntu 8.10 into a media center platform. You can achieve this using various software like MythTV and Boxee, but we’re going to use XBMC Media Center (formerly XBox Media Center). (Submitted by ha3er0) More...
Metacity Compositing Effects in Ubuntu 8.10 | Tombuntu
tombuntu.com — You get some eye candy and can run applications that require or benefit from a compositing window manager. Metacity uses your CPU instead of a graphics card, so it’ll work on anything - even a virtual machine. It is very light on the effects. (Submitted by inactive) More...
Installing and Setting Up Avant Window Navigator
tombuntu.com — Today we are going to see how you can make Ubuntu much more user friendly and add eye candy. We are going to give Ubuntu a Mac OSX like dock and configure it to add applets and launchers to launch applications of your choice. I have done this in Ubuntu 8.10 but I am sure it should work in previous versions as well. (Submitted by motang) More...
Install Adobe Flash Player 10 in Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10
tombuntu.com — Adobe’s doing something interesting on their download page now. As well as a tar.gz download and a few for other distributions, there is now an Ubuntu deb package and an Ubuntu Apt-URL link. The Apt-URL link points to a package not in the Ubuntu repository (adobe-flashplugin),. (Submitted by motang) More...
Create An Encrypted Private Directory In Ubuntu
tombuntu.com — Ubuntu 8.10, the release of the popular Linux distribution due out Oct. 30 will give every user an encrypted private directory by default, one that mounts with you at login and protects your data from any command prompt trickery. In the meantime, the Tombuntu blog explains how to set up an encrypted folder in current versions of Ubuntu. (Submitted by inactive) More...
CodeWeavers Releases Chrom Package for Linux
tombuntu.com — CodeWeavers, a company which sells a proprietary version of Wine, has released an easily installable package for running Google Chrome on Linux. CrossOver Chromium is a modified version of Chromium (the open source code which runs Google Chrome) combined with CodeWeaver’s modified version of Wine. (Submitted by Fabzter) More...
Test Drive OpenOffice 3 Release Candidate 1
tombuntu.com — OpenOffice 3 should be released in time to be included in Ubuntu 8.10, but you can try the recent release candidate right now in Ubuntu 8.04 (or another Debian-based distribution) without disturbing your existing version of OpenOffice (you can even run both versions at the same time). (Submitted by motang) More...
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