Mark Shuttleworth announced the addition of notify-osd to jaunty today, which is a small step towards many that we can expect to see in the upcoming releases of Ubuntu to improve desktop user experience. You can download the latest jaunty release and install it on a VM to check it out live, but it might not perform very well under a Virtual Machine since it depends on compiz for effects and alpha releases might not have the latest builds. Here is a nice guide to install notify-osd for people who wants to try it out with Ibex.

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Blender UI

If you are an aspiring Graphic designer you should be already familiar with blender by now, but if you are thinking about being a game developer or a graphic designer you should know that Blender is not only the best free and open source choice but also rivals all commercial 3d applications out there. You can look at two very detailed comparison here and here. Blender is the only free 3d application compared against the heavyweight industry favorites like 3d max (which costs around $5000+) and the only second application to support all three major operating system.

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I was pushing the limit on my new system and couldn’t resist installing several OS in seamless mode on several virtual machine and see how it goes. Imagine a system where you can move files around and copy/paste from one application to another application of different OS. This is what geek dreams are made of…

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If you don’t appreciate the reference to the internet meme, I understand; the rest can enjoy. :)

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I have nothing against commercial Linux distribution. As a matter of fact, my first Linux experience was a commercial version of SUSE 7 almost nine years ago. I remember it had 6 CDs in a very professionally made CD pack, and SUSE did a very good job at making the installation process as user friendly as possible at that time. (Before SUSE decided to go evil). Its safe to say that I thought that the experience was good enough for me to justify paying for a Linux distribution.

Enter iMagic OS

Its not everyday that you see an announcement of a new commercial Linux distribution. We obviously see a lot of Linux distribution popping up every few days, which is essentially just a fork of some popular distribution out there. So what’s wrong with iMagic OS that its worth talking about?

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