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I’m messing with linux more and more. I just installed it on my desktop (without a hard drive, as that causes a crash for some reason.. too many hard drives?). And got beryl and xgl and all that working. I’m not all too happy with this new version of ubuntu, it suffers from the same issue as previous ones (that damn Rocket 100 IDE Controller card driver), but it works, so why complain? It took me a while to get the ati drivers working too, although thats an ati driver issue problem. I had to add in the restricted repositories in order to get them to work. Lots of reboots later and it works. Next step is to get it working with dual monitors. Although, I did find an interesting program I wish I had found sooner: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ which lets two computer connect virtually in sort of a dual monitor config (one mouse and keyboard). We’ll see. Adobe has also released version of flash player 9 for linux: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/ (and some other goodies). Beryl also works well, and a lot faster than my laptop. Lots of next steps. Will keep you up to date.

If you’re curious as to what beryl is, some videos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=G3p8IBNNd88
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELwnG9f7lDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC_YbhhINHk

Think Max OSX, Vista, but free and expandable (to anything you can think and program).