Compiz Fusion - Pure Eye Candy

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An excerpt from the Compiz Fusion Wiki:

Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the well-known Beryl composite window manager and Compiz Extras, a community set of improvements to the Compiz composite window manager. Compiz Fusion aims to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to render each individual window and the entire screen, to provide some impressive effects, speed and usefulness. The first Compiz Fusion developer release was Compiz Fusion 0.5.2 on August 13th 2007, shortly after Compiz 0.5.2 was released. First stable release of Compiz Fusion is 0.6.0 released on October 20 2007.

Compiz Fusion is an open-source software project, meaning anyone can use it freely and contribute.

More Information @ http://www.compiz-fusion.org/

With this stuff all for free … who the hell wants to pay for Windows Vista?!

Hardy Heron - Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha4 Released

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Ubuntu 8.04 code-named Hardy Heron Alpha 4 was released February 02 and is officially available for testing.

At this stage it is still considered as unstable so smooth running is virtually impossible.

ISO Download Link:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-4/

The release is scheduled late April this year and it is expected to be supported for 3 years and 5 years, for desktop & server respectively.

Cannot Change Resolution Ubuntu 7.10 (guest on VMware)

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Diagnosis:

a. You load up Ubuntu 7.10 / 7.04 Live CD as a Guest OS on VMware Server 1.0.4 (Windows Platform) — Screen resolution too large/too small — won’t change.

b. You take a shot at installing Ubuntu 7.10 / 7.04 as a fixed Guest OS on VMware Server 1.0.4 (Windows Platform) — surprisingly enough — You try to change the Ubuntu’s Screen Resolution but again the action is simply ignored.

Notes:

This mostly happens to newly intstalled VMware server installations where VMware Tools has not been installed yet. Installing VMware Tools in your guest operating systems will help maximize performance, provide mouse synchronization and copy & paste functionality. The feature we will be using is “Auto-fit Guest”.

Solution: