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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

A few tip & tricks to speed up your ubuntu

1. Disable IPv6
Edit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases and change the line:

alias net-pf-10 ipv6

to

alias net-pf-10 off #ipv6

2. Run boot processes in parallel
Edit /etc/init.d/rc and change:

CONCURRENCY=none

to

CONCURRENCY=shell

3. Aliasing hostname to localhost
Modify /etc/hosts’s first two line as follows:

127.0.0.1 localhost yourhost127.0.1.1 yourhost

where yourhost, is your chosen hostname. This will fasten up applications load.

4. Preload
Preload is an adaptive readahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.

sudo apt-get install preload

Read the complete post over @

http://yoten.blogspot.com/2007/04/speed-up-ubuntu.html

How I installed ubuntu on my ASUS A6000 laptop ( dual boot with XP ).

1. Put in the live CD, boot with it and double click the install icon on the Desktop.
2. Create a swap & / partition
3. Install ubuntu ( and browse the internet at the same time .
   YES…you can browse the internet using the live-cd and install ubuntu at the same time…that’s better than reading those boring microsoft messages when installing windows….)
4. After the install I installed Automatix and ran the program ( applications -> system tools )
5. Install the video card drivers ( system -> administration -> restricted drivers manager -> enable driver )
6. Install XGL ( because otherwise the visual effects won’t work on this system )

   sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl

7. Reboot the laptop
8. Enable visual effects ( system -> preferences -> appearance -> visual effects )
9. Install the compiz manager with synaptic package manager
10. Install Gnome-Art with synaptic package manager
11. Install gdesklets with synaptic package manager

thats about it

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