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Kicking off the Tech of the Month series

Started by Travis W, 2009-03-25T10:25:23-05:00 (Wednesday)

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Mark Sands

Mark Sands
Computer Science Major

Travis W

Yeah i felt like it was a very personal presentation. :-D
Also it was an excellent presentation i can't wait for the next one.

Travis

Robert Kennedy

Indeed.  Well done presentation. 

After seeing Brian's desktop I had to come home and install the main KDE packages .  Its really amazing to see the amount of customization options that users have with Ubuntu.  I really didn't have a clue. 

rdurham285

nice meetin you guys today. Wish I had saw this before I did my install. Was not sure at all how it would work out.

cool presentation.

-Ryan

Jarod Luebbert

Great presentation. Big thanks to Scott and Brian for taking time out of their busy schedule to do that. Those who didn't go missed out!
Jarod Luebbert
Computer Science Major

raptor

Ryan, Robert:

Welcome!  Glad to see you on the forums after the presentation.  One of the things  I didn't show but is REALLY neat are some of the cool visual affects you can setup with either Gnome or KDE.  It makes the fancy stuff OS X and Vista do look like childs play.  As long as your video driver supports it you can have some real fun.

Look at this article.  If you still have questions afterwords do some more googling, or post on the forum.  http://www.seoras.com/2008/07/27/eye-candy-in-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron/
President of CAOS
Software Engineer NASA Nspires/Roses Grant

richbria90

I was there and I would like a copy of the slides or to know what happened to the video... i couldnt find any of it anywhere brricha@siue.edu
thanks,
Brian

raptor

We will have it on the new site Mark is making. (How soon mark?)
President of CAOS
Software Engineer NASA Nspires/Roses Grant

Mark Sands

I'm thinking today. Let's see if that happens. If not, everyone expect Monday..
Mark Sands
Computer Science Major

richbria90

??? lol mark you fail tis monday night!!!  j/p but really i didnt take notes so i want to check out that page about the things you can do in ubuntu btw this presentation caused me to partition the hard drive and put ubuntu on it so congrats it was very good

Mark Sands

Well the site is in the clouds if you can find it.. it's just not pushed yet because the video's are a bit of a problem. I'm currently editing them, and tbh the linux presentation might not go up for a while...  However, the java presentation is done and will be up soon, followed by processing. And I think the ruby presentation is on youtube, oh and C# is also done.
Mark Sands
Computer Science Major

Robert Kennedy

Related to the Tech of the month...<a href="http://www.linuxmint.com>Linux Mint</a> is a Linux distro based on Ubuntu. 

I've been trying it out for a couple days now and from a beginners standpoint, its probably even more newbie friendly than Ubuntu is.  It comes packaged with a lot of things that Ubuntu doesn't that almost seem like a necessity to me (Thunderbird and JDK for instance) so there should be slightly less downloads to make on a fresh install.  However, to keep the distro light, they've left out all the programming tools and games, so you'll have to DL what you want.  This isn't too much of an issue to me though since Ubuntu doesn't come prepackaged with Eric or Netbeans anyway.

Also, programs like Opera, Google Earth, and Wine will show up by default in the Mint repository, so there's no need to add a bunch of software sources like I had to do in Ubuntu. 

Finally, its based on Ubuntu 8.10, so any updates to Ubuntu are also updates for Linux Mint.

Brian Pritchett

Quote from: Robert Kennedy on 2009-04-08T21:47:48-05:00 (Wednesday)
Indeed.  Well done presentation. 

After seeing Brian's desktop I had to come home and install the main KDE packages .  Its really amazing to see the amount of customization options that users have with Ubuntu.  I really didn't have a clue. 

I'm glad I could show you something you didn't know, but liked! Ask me any questions you would like.