Gianvito’s

• Do you had (and i think have now… if you hadn’t fix that) problems with nvidia drivers?
• Do you have a new graphic card (from nvidia (8,9,GT200 series))?
• 2d performance are so poor?
• Especially, gtk performance are poor?

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Static page (I’ve not updated benchmarks):

• http://gianvito.wordpress.com/gtk-engines-benchmarks/

Link:

• http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/how-participate-linux-community

Source: http://www.hwupgrade.it/news/software/una-guida-per-contribuire-allo-sviluppo-del-kernel-linux_26208.html

Links:

• Ati HomePage
• Ati Linux Driver (x86) Page
• Ati 8.5 drivers release notes

WorkAround to (A little watermark on the right lower corner —> “Ati – Testing use only”)

Open a terminal and:

• sudo nano /eti/ati/signature
• delete UNSIGNED
• copy and paste this string into /etc/ati/signature
• Reboot

“A cached pacman implementatioin”

Pacman Description

Tupac (rapper) R.I.P.

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New Compiz-Fusion Plugins

I’ve just updated compiz fusion (git) in the repo… You can install it from there adding this and then:

sudo pacman -S compiz-fusion-git

“Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org. You can write your own scripts, too. Check out http://wiki.greasespot.net/ to get started.”

by “https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/748″

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Let’s see how to install it on ArchLinux…

Update 10/04/2008

• Gnome 2.22 in [extra]
• Gnome 2.22.1 released

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The Space… An infinite universe where I think we aren’t lonely… but we have to do great steps to know if there is intelligent life in the other galaxies.

Today we’ll talking about a great software written by Chris Laurel.

CELESTIA

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” There are many things that are broken, non existent or flat out ugly, and we are well aware of that. Some things also work rather well. The purpose of this release is to inspire folks to stand up and help us finish Amarok 2.0.”

From Amarok Main Site (21/01/2008)

Waiting for the next great release of this wonderful music player. We’re going to see how to install version 1.4.8 and configure postgresql to manage collections.

(See how to install it and configure it clicking on the right “pages”)