StartUp Manager for Ubuntu

You can now edit the bootloader – GRUB via GUI. StartUp Manager is well tested on Ubuntu. You can visit the official site for details.
You use the package in your OWN RISK – the official site said.

Cinelerra – Professional Video Editor for Linux

Anyone who find Kino is too simple for them, Cinelerra is your choice.
For hardware requirements, you should have at least 500MHz CPU, 256MB RAM and more than 1 GB hard drive space for very small project, an OpenGL display card. For details, please refer to official manual.
Download it here.
Updated on 2007-06-27 :
You may encounter [...]

Swiftfox

Swiftfox is optimized Firefox. It comes with many editions for your CPU. I downloaded it for my Athlon 64X2 box. It is loading and surfing very fast. I recommend all of you to use it.
My Firefox was left behind on the panel without touching since then.
Updated on 2007-06-21 :
I installed Fasterfox [...]

VirtualBox on Ubuntu 7.04

I read a lot of information about VirtualBox. Yesterday, I installed it on my Ubuntu 7.04 box and installed fedora 7, Ubuntu 7.04 SE (it is my remastered edition of Ubuntu), and Windows XP as virtual machines.
Without installing the Additions.iso of VirtualBox :
Windows XP required to give 64MB RAM as display memory to make [...]

GPG on Gmail under Ubuntu and Firefox

You can now use GPG on Gmail under Firefox.
Step 1 :
sudo apt-get install kgpg
The follow the instructions to setup your GPG key. Make sure your email address is valid.
Step 2 :
Install the FireGPG at here.
Step 3 :
Now you can compose your email with encrypt and sign on Gmail.
Enjoy!

preload for Ubuntu

preload is an adaptive readahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.

sudo apt-get install preload

All my application programs are starting faster than before.

GeForce 8500GT on Ubuntu 7.04

I replaced my ATi X550 to GeForce 8500GT with 512MB RAM today. ATi open source driver cannot run OpenGL 3D games properly but it can run beryl smoothly.
The drivers for nVidia of Ubuntu cannot be worked. It is required to download the nVidia official driver. The latest version by this writing is [...]

View media files from Samba server

To view media files (such as .avi, .wmv, .mpg, rmvb) from the Samba server under Ubuntu 7.04 is very simple indeed. You just need to install totem-gstreamer player.
sudo apt-get install totem-gstreamer
To view DVDs under Ubuntu 7.04 can be just install the related codecs and totem-xine player.
sudo apt-get install totem-xine
For codecs installation, please [...]

Glest – 3D RTS game for Debian / Ubuntu

Glest is a free 3D real time strategy game. It comes with Linux and Windows editions. You can download and install the Debian / Ubuntu packages.
Download
glest_2.0.0-0~getdeb1_i386.deb
glest-data_2.0.0-0~getdeb1_all.deb
Installation
sudo apt-get install libopenal0a libxerces27
sudo dpkg -i glest_2.0.0-0~getdeb1_i386.deb glest-data_2.0.0-0~getdeb1_all.deb
By the way, you can also download the Linux Games Live DVD for fun!

Scroll button on IBM T23

The scroll button (blue one) on my IBM T23 is not working under Ubuntu 7.04. I added the following to the xorg.conf to enable it.
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
I added the options to the script at ‘Section “InputDevice”‘, ‘Driver “mouse”‘ :
Option “EmulateWheel” [...]