I have updated to the new version of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron, its great actually. Although I updated at Alpha 6 and HAL wasn’t working I updated again to Beta 1 and that’s all fixed now. Got my wireless working within 5 minutes which is a record, having there is still an annoying problem yet to be fixed.
Hehe. I have got a new set of Ubuntu CD’ s to distribute now, took just over two weeks to get here I think, I am not sure exactly where they are coming from, but I think that they were bundled with my Brother’s delivery, yes that’s right, Rob ordered some too. Must have been slightly impressed when I fixed his PC with a dapper Live CD, he had the BSOD.
Woop, go OSS.
Right, you all know about The GIMP, the free image editor? It sounds great and ever since I moved over to Linux permanently its been doing a reasonably good job and simple image editing jobs, resizing photos, small touch-ups etc.. But now I have a project that requires a full set of imagery and as the title suggests its like trying to create images without any kind of user interface!
Coming from a full fledged Photoshop Graduate to this I feel very limited and somewhat annoyed about this product, simple things such as a non-visual layer representation, so you have to scroll through the layers, looking at the selection’s produced to know what layer you are on.. The move button is virtually useless and as for any kind of half decent in-built functions, you must be kidding..
The guys developing GIMP have done a great job but just now, I am downloading Photoshop CS2 and am going to have fun with that and WINE.. *Big weight lifted*.
EDIT: Meh, stupid Operating System checks. To the windoze partition!
