Sanctuary
This isn't so much of a journal entry.
New software system on pc. This one I call sanctuary.
Ubuntu linux 6.10 + aiglx + beryl looks sexy as hell.
this is a screenshot of it running with banshee. Banshee is a music player. Notice that the panel have lots of useful things on them.
The left one has a show desktop button and a button which is like the startmenu only more compact. Then various programs followed by a listing of mounted drives (any drive but the main one) then I have a tool that downloads wallpapers from flicker according to tags and organizes it so I can pick from it or have it automaticly change it every little bit. then a notifications section (like the part of the start menu before the time) and the recylce bin
The top one has the normal menu setup for gnome followed by a window selector button, a note taking application, a link to the command line, a timer for when I'm cooking, the weather, media player controls, a address book searcher, a blog poster, the time, a button that lets me force an application to quit by clicking on it then the app, and a powerdown/logout button.
With linux you can customize everything you want without having to buy programs to do it. (most of which are much better then the windows apps) The window decorations are done by sometime called beryl which together with aiglx lets me customize the title bar and make my own theme but also it acts as a window manager. It's has effects similar to vista but it s much more feature enriched and advanced. (it does what vista does and more with less than 1/6 of ram)also I run 4 desktops on a cube that I rotate with my middle mouse button. I'm using the windows vista font and mouse cursor because they are both sexy and everything else is customized as well.
It runs alot of windows applications that were already made to support linux. Though it seems the general rule with linux is. Don't port applications to windows! Which is a pity for gamers because wine ( program that will let you run windows programs) is faulty still. Though it runs the macromedia programs and the adobe ones. Though cs2 is 100% working yet. Anyone that downloads through bittorent or mirc should know about Azureus and xchat which are not only supported on linux but originally came from linux.
The windows unlike windows are'nt static when I move them, they "flow' with the mouse cursor. One of the major reasons I got ubuntu originaly was because of comix. A comic viewer that's main feature (besides reading cbr and cbz files) was a comic library that indexs the comics and organizes them by front cover.
Well thats all on a system report for now. This is just for the people that are interested in what you can do with linux. Peace.