You're welcome, Sina. Nice site, BTW. Good to see another Drupalista / Linuxer :D

Thanks man, saved me lots of time.

Unfortunately you cannot using this resource, as it relies upon the European Central Bank to supply rates, and they are not supplying cross-rates for the CLP. :(

How can I do CLP (Chilean Money)

ths very useful software

i haven't dowloaded the soft yet
so no comments, until seeng the contents
ok !

Excellent tip
works with mw 6.5
jaunty ubuntu and evolution mail client as well

Thanks for the warning. I was looking at Biweaver because of the whole php/mysql deal and a shared host. Now I will look elsewhere

Rado:

Sorry, it may well do so now. This is an old post, and Virtualbox has moved on a lot since then. I no longer use it, as KVM is superior, so I cannot confirm or deny current versions handling of this.

I had options on my snapshot to revert to the current snapshot or to discard the snapshot and state. I discarded as the post says to and it destroyed my virtual machine. I couldn't start it after that so I don't think it it merges it.

Hi Elliott,

From my experience there is little need to go to Intrepid over Hardy for the majority of users. In fact because Hardy has Long-Term-Support, it may be better for a lot of people who don't like change. Think about XP...going since 2001 and they still cannot bury it...even though it has many quirks and foibles.

As for the level of hardware required, that is not a function really of the Kernel core of the Linux distro, but more which Window Manager runs on top. In ZevenOS it is using a mix of components around XFCE, which is lightweight, so it runs well on old gear.

So yes, I recommend it for your old laptop. Possibly the only other I would tell you to check out would be Elive. That is faster, but also quirkier, and runs the e17 Window Manager. This is buggy and flakey at times. It is also a system for those who know what they are doing with Linux- not newbie friendly IMHO.

Thanks for the excellent review of ZevenOS.

I've checked Zeven in the live CD mode only, so far.

I'm glad you explained why it appeals to you. I'm not experienced enough with Linux to appreciate the BeOS connection.

My Sotec 3200 laptop (1.2 Ghz celeron) ran fine with ZevenOS and I liked the interface, but I wondered why I should opt for an older version of Ubuntu, rather than Intrepid. That was my dilemma.

Maybe it's a better system for older computers. If so, I'm not sure anyone has made that point.

But certainly, ZevenOS is an impressive system, and the talented people who created it have my greatest respect.

3 guesses on how I found you and the first 2 don't count. I was actually surprised that it took so long for me to find out why I was being hit hard by search live. Guess it goes to show how many pages are now on the Internet. Aside from the obvious (multiple hits using very specific categories), I think it's interesting to note that I use the free Windows Live Writer. I maintain a number of blogs both professionally and personally and it's a very useful tool. I'll have to read through the TOC and see if there was something in there that might have indicated my use would result in these types of hits.

This script saved me hours I guess!

two things were missing for my case:

-e 's/ß/ß/g' -e 's/„/„/g'

and sed is complaining about missing whitespace between regex and backslash at line 6 and line 20

many thanks
Oliver

:::UPDATE:::
As of July 29 2008, I can safely say that Heron is a good thing. The updates that have been going on constantly, bringing version to 8.04.1, have worked wonders for system speed and stability.

I have been running AWN successfully too, without weird glitches. Version currently: 0.3.1.bzr777.1~gutsy For the AWN-Core. It's smoother and faster also. Squish and 3D Turn are very cool.

I have loaded the UbuntuStudio theme from the repository, as this has a nice balance of light to dark. Still using the Compiz wobbly windows and 3D desktop cube. It is actually handy, and a real let down when I have to work on a windoze machine.

I'd be lying though if I said I'm not tempted to give another distro a whirl, just because I can, but I also know "if it's not broke don't fix it!", so I'll leave the Ubuntu Hardy Heron there as my main work and play setup, with everything else as and when I can on VirtualBox or another partition.

Well done Ubuntu community!

H9290: You're welcome. Pay it forward! :-)

Seems like everything is working
restarted and it still works,hope it doesnt get screwed again
THANKS for the wonderfull guide and for the extra help

If you can get the fglrx driver loaded ok first, then come back to compiz...

use Syanptic. search for compiz
do complete removal on everything installed.

reboot

then use synaptic to install compiz again.

the do the following:

sudo gedit /usr/bin/compiz

Replace this top block of code with the following, paying special attention to the lines containing the word WHITELIST and X600:

COMPIZ_BIN_PATH="/usr/bin/" # For window decorators and compiz
PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/lib/compiz/"
GLXINFO="/usr/bin/glxinfo"
KWIN="/usr/bin/kwin"
METACITY="/usr/bin/metacity"
COMPIZ_NAME="compiz.real" # Final name for compiz (compiz.real)

# For Xgl LD_PRELOAD
LIBGL_NVIDIA="/usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa"
LIBGL_FGLRX="/usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa"

# Minimum amount of memory (in kilo bytes) that nVidia cards need
# to be allowed to start
# Set to 262144 to require 256MB
NVIDIA_MEMORY="65536" # 64MB
NVIDIA_SETTINGS="nvidia-settings" # Assume it's in the path by default

# For detecting what driver is in use, the + is for one or more /'s
XORG_DRIVER_PATH="/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/+"

FALLBACKWM="${METACITY}"
FALLBACKWM_OPTIONS="--replace $@"

# Driver whitelist
WHITELIST="fglrx nvidia intel ati radeon i810"

# blacklist based on the pci ids
# See http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/Hardware/Blacklist for details
#T=" 1002:5954 1002:5854 1002:5955" # ati rs480
#T="$T 1002:4153" # ATI Rv350
T="$T 8086:2982 8086:2992 8086:29a2 8086:2a02 8086:2a12" # intel 965
T="$T 8086:2972" # i965 (x3000)
#T="$T 1002:3152 1002:3150 1002:5462 1002:5653 " # ati X300 X600,X600 X700
BLACKLIST_PCIIDS="$T"
unset T

Save and restart X, then see if you can start the 3d Desktop Effects.

I did remove the fglrx drivers,and had the ati drivers from the ati/amd site
the new driver is 8.7
i tried trouble shoooting but no use,but to think about it,even when i installed the new ati driver,i didnt uninstall the compiz,i might try that
i didnt understand (whitelisting necessary for the X600)
Ubuntu live CD works fine,didnt try another,even fglxr driver with compiz worked fine for a week(still didnt figure how that can possibly happen)

H9290:
It sounds like the compiz stuff is busted.

Have you tried going through the troubleshooting steps to remove the fglrx drivers, test, then reinstall? And reinstall compiz, ensuring that you do the whitelisting necessary for the X600.

Have you tried loading a livecd to see if that will work? I think ones like the new Sabayon 3.5 live DVD have the drivers already installed, you just choose them at boot.

Can you take a look at the log file to find the issue?
sudo cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log >> ~/xlog
then
cat ~/xlog