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A (few) very nice HOWTO on installing GFX Grub In Ubuntu.

GNU Graphics Grub is the new Grub boot screen which adds to Visual appeal of Boot Screen. Unlike older grub GFX Grub has now much better themes and customization options..

Your bootscreen can look like this;

For the howto’s click one of the following links ( they seem identical to me )

• http://tuxenclave.wordpress.com
• http://www.joejoe.org

and be carefull !

if you don’t know what your doing this could end up in a non bootable computer……..

The latest Ubuntu release brings the best of open source together on a platform that is here to stay with 3 years of free updates. With hundreds of improvements and the addition of the latest version of Firefox amongst other outstanding applications, more and more users are assessing why Ubuntu wins more and more converts with every release. This tour will help you discover this for your self.

Check out some screenshots over at zdnet.com

Click the image to start the tour

GNOME Art is a tool for downloading and installing GNOME themes from http://art.gnome.org/ website.
It provides a nice theme list with options to preview, download and install them.

To install ( under ubuntu ) just go to Synaptic Package Manager and search for gnome-art and install the package.

After you installed it go to System -> Preferences -> Art Manager.

I’m not a linux guru, I just enjoy playing around with it. My favorite distribution is ubuntu because most hardware just works after a fresh install.
However, my videocard uses what they call ´restricted drivers

My videocard is an ATI X1600 and ubuntu offers the drivers, but I was unable to enable the visual effects within ubuntu 7.10

After a google search I found a program called ENVY that automaticly installs ATI & Nvidia drivers for you.
You can find it here ; http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

I had some problems getting the flash player to work in the latest release of ubuntu (7.10) and did a search for it on google;
This site explains why it’s not working and how to fix it ;

http://tombuntu.com