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Episode 26 - Ubuntu Linux, Mac OS X Leopard Style |
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This show was broadcast at the time of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. If you are using Hardy Heron, please [click here] for the show that teaches how to setup Hardy Heron with Mac OS style. Topics Covered: - Step-by-step procedure to making your Ubuntu Linux desktop look like Mac OS X Leopard.
- Setting your desktop wallpaper to the Leopard nebula graphic.
- Viewer Question: How do you make a mug of coffee last a full hour?
- Software Feature: The Avant Window Navigator Mac OS-style dockbar for Linux. Installation and configuration.
- Setting up and using Synaptic Package Manager to install applications in Ubuntu Linux.
- Why doesn't the Preferences feature of Avant Window Navigator work? Determining the problem, and fixing it using the Linux terminal.
- Using awn-manager to change settings in Avant Window Navigator.
- The key to creating working program launchers in Avant Window Navigator in Ubuntu Linux.
- What is the point in making your Linux look like Mac OS?
- Viewer Comment: I think the "T" is silent in "Avant".
- Installing and using Emerald to beautify and/or add impressive themes to Ubuntu's window decorating, replacing the default Metacity window decorator.
- Installing SVN (subversion) using apt-get in Ubuntu Linux to gain access to more windowing themes in Emerald.
- Installing Non-GPL themes in Emerald.
- Choosing the most "Mac OS'ish" looking theme in Emerald.
- Viewer Comment: Your show is really cool!
- Viewer Question: My computer is setup to dual-boot Linux and Windows. When the GRUB menu comes up at boot, even if we push the keys, we can't select Windows and Linux boots up after the timeout. Any ideas?
- Viewer Question: I am streaming online just like you, but with movies. How do I do this so that the sound works as well as the video?
- Viewer Question: I tried booting from my Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 6 Live CD and all I got was a bunch of orange blocks. How can I get past this?
- Booting the Ubuntu Hardy Heron CD into Safe Graphics Mode.
- Viewer Question: What can you do from the Ubuntu Live CD?
- Send free Mac computers to Robbie.
- A story of recovering data from a corrupted Windows XP partition using Ubuntu's Live CD.
- Viewer Question: Is it easy to mount a hard drive in Ubuntu Linux?
- Robbie's comments about the excellent turnaround of Ubuntu.
- Viewer Question: Can't you just update to the latest version of Ubuntu using the update system?
- Viewer Question: How do I get an MPG file I downloaded to play on DVD players?
- Using DeVeDe to convert an MPG file to a DVD VOB ISO file, ready for burning to DVD-R.
- Installing and using Miro to syndicate Category5 (and other web-based TV shows) to your computer.
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