The new ver­sion of ubuntu has been released. I have been using ubuntu for some years now and I am still a big fan of it. The deve­l­o­pers have now imple­men­ted 3D desk­top effects, which you pro­bably know from Apple. But this is only one of many impro­ved fea­tures of this Linux dis­tri­bu­tion. What I like most about Linux is the way to edit and pro­cess LaTeX docu­ments, the con­stant and auto­ma­tic updates of all soft­ware, and that it’s free. On my wish list would be using Pho­to­shop with Linux, but surely Adobe is to blame for that.

Amend­ment: I could upgrade easily on my IBM T40p lap­top, but faced some pro­blems on my desk­top com­pu­ter. The pro­blem was due to the ATI Radeon 9600 gra­phics card. After activat­ing a pro­prietary dri­ver for it, I could not use the advan­ced desk­top effects. Deac­tivat­ing the dri­ver fixed the pro­blem, now I can enjoy all these fancy, eye candy effects. I could find some use­ful hints on set­ting up and con­fi­gu­ring com­piz (the new win­dow mana­ger responsi­ble for the effects) at Forlong’s Blog. Now, ever­y­thing rota­tes and looks trans­pa­rent, my desk­top burns, chan­ging the app­li­ca­tion is a real event and my four desk­tops change with a nice cube effect.

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