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17.05.2007 Melon Web team now powered by Ubuntu Seeing as I coded this blog system I guess its time for me to make a post.. but be warned, this is one for the geeks ;) Anyways, fed up of Windows XP with its pop-ups, spyware, random problems, and crashes etc I decided it was time to find another solution. I don´t fancy upgrading to Vista, as it´s basically XP with a pretty Mac style interface, a few bells and whistles, and will be shocking until a service pack to fix all the bugs. Speaking of Macs, you can run OS X on PC´s these days. Its a nice enough OS, but would be a nightmare to develop in, and I need 2 mouse buttons! Not to mention I wouldn´t hear the end of it from the rest of team Melon (every single one a Mac user). This brings me to Linux, a free, open source, OS built by a community of people to strengthen functionality, rather than profits. This results in a tidy, efficient, feature packed piece of software. Linux comes in many flavour´s (or distributions), but I am going to go with Ubuntu (which apparently means "Humanity towards others"), due to its stability, and a few nifty features it has. Why am I telling you all this? The image above (Enlarge image) is a screenshot of Ubuntu with Beryl, a desktop manager that enables multiple virtual desktops to be viewed on a cube interface. How cool is that? Your PC screen in a 3D environment! In this instance its more of a hexagonal tube that rotates, but you can add as many ´viewports´ as you like, and with dual screens makes a great way to multi-task. Now I can have my code, the page I am working on, my email, my remote desktop machines, and any other websites or programs running all nicely managed on their own virtual screens, free of clutter. Check out a video of it in action below. Chris (AKA Techie Chris, or ´the Geek´ :P) Click here for more... |
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