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You might not want to buy those pricey MacBook Pro and use non-free operating system, but that can’t stop you to have a Mac OS X look for your Ubuntu.
Lauri Taimila has written a step-by-step tutorial to turn your Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) into Mac OS X look-alike in no time!**
Just take a look at this screenshot before and after :
Visit his website for a simple howto to turn your Ubuntu Dapper into OS X
These are the extra Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 LTS repository. Put these in the /etc/sources.lst, and run apt-get update. :)
deb http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/ dapper-cafuego all deb-src http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/ dapper-cafuego all #firmware files Broadcom 4306 based wireless controllers. deb http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/ dapper-cafuego bcm43xx deb-src http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/ dapper-cafuego bcm43xx #beagle, xpm2wico deb http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/ dapper-cafuego custom deb-src http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/ dapper-cafuego custom #Microprose transport tycoon deluxe reimplementation deb http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/ dapper-cafuego openttd deb-src http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/ dapper-cafuego openttd #Network utility for use with WPA protected networks. deb http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/ dapper-cafuego wpa deb-src http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/ dapper-cafuego wpa #This is a Java client for the proprietary Zing Meeting System deb http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/ dapper-cafuego zingthing deb-src http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/ dapper-cafuego zingthing #PLF packages deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf dapper free non-free deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf dapper free non-free deb ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/ubuntu/plf/ dapper free non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/ubuntu/plf/ dapper free non-free #Cipherfunk - Ubuntu Multimedia Packages deb ftp://cipherfunk.org/pub/packages/ubuntu/ dapper main deb-src ftp://cipherfunk.org/pub/packages/ubuntu dapper main # Gauvain Pocentek - Ubuntu Repository deb http://gauvain.tuxfamily.org/repos dapper contrib deb-src http://gauvain.tuxfamily.org/repos dapper contrib
Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06 LTS) has been released earlier this month. Some of the improvements introduced by Dapper Drake is the complete GUI installation screen and the inclusion of tango icon.
But it is nice to know that you always have the option to ‘improve’ the Dapper Drake GUI a bit and spruce it up with custom icons.
Here’s a page that lists a collection of of improvements to make Dapper look even “better”, I’ve personally tried it for the gaim and Firefox, and it blend nicely into environment!
Why don’t you try it now?
I guess you can find the most helpful howto on this subject at Aysiu’s website. It teaches how to detect a windows partition using the console. IMHO, it’s handy for a newbie to mount windows partition.
Please refer here : http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows.php for a complete howto.
If for some reason you want to use OpenBSD ksh which is a modified version of pdksh (Public Domain ksh), then look no more. Somebody has taken the trouble to port the OpenBSD ksh to GNU/Linux.
So what’s the deal with the OpenBSD ksh? First, it is free being modified by the OpenBSD project people which really emphasis on software freedom. Secondly, OpenBSD people has cleaned the public-domain ksh and enhanced PD ksh with great features.
So if for some reason you need an improved open implementation of ksh, then try downloading from this website : http://www.delilinux.de/oksh/
The OpenSUSE project has released the Live DVD version of its latest OpenSUSE 10.1 release. This is the first time OpenSUSE project has released a LiveDVD version of its distribution.
The LiveDVD which contains 4 GB of Linux software compressed into a 1.7 GB iso image however is smaller than the Knoppix 5.0.1 Live DVD, currently sized at 4.04GB.
Unlike Knoppix, OpenSUSE live DVD is not installable to hard disk, but can be used to test hardware compatibility, perform system rescue tasks, or evaluate SUSE Linux 10.1
You can download the OpenSUSE Live DVD at the official release page http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version