Want to very seriously pimp and improve the Linux Lucid file browser called Naulitus? When so, follow the instructions from the below.


After, you get additional features such as sub-headed sections in the left side bar grouping personal folders and favorites, various disk resources [devices] and all that's on the (W)LAN under [network].

Also see the top posts bar on right bottom for more great stuff.

It's not quite windows user friendly yet [too much stuff needs done via the command line] but it's closing in to

Thanks Sekerob--i have been installing 10.04 on all my machines--i think i will have to switch to 64 bit though--

A topic that came up in the CEP2 performance was some having set up Linux with NTFS, where mine is in ext4. Easy checking on filesystem in Lucid Lynx is with Systemmonitor in the Filesystem tab. See that the Windows partition is marked as fuseblk, mounted after each boot, so I can listen to ripped music from the NTFS drive... which may explain part of the time losses during use.

Still not thinking that Linux at LL 10.04.0 is a smooth operator. 10.04.1 is coming soon according https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-10.04.1. There was in last update a bunch of wifi backporting and still not 100%. The wifi craps out when under longer high loads. Firefox continues to be unresponsive even after latest auto-update to 3.6.7. Comparatively, Opera 10.6 performs on this platform superbly, but missing some of the must-have add-ons that make writing and archiving easy such as zotero and scribefire. Former says they're unable to replicate the functionality in Opera, so will continue to revisit the issue with FFX. Beta 4 is out, so who knows. It renders blazing fast and crisp.

On Lucid Lynx, there's a nice review by Ars-Technica also touching on Maverick Meerkat. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/20...-reviews-ubuntu-1004.ars/. One Greg Kroah Hartman reports there's a bunch of kernel refreshes coming, 2.6.32 to be maintained for several years to come i.e. the LTS.

Can't wait... so much to learn about the pitfalls to avoid on this platform... who'd thought NTFS could cause that much performance burden... no me.

linux noob out.

So simple it proofed, the indexing within Recoll of Windows partitions. Appeared that the none-native store resources had entries in /media, for instance the C:/My documents was in /Media/HDD. Swiftly added to the table of directories to index and instant supply of lists of files that meet the search criteria. Evil thought as just got into scripting, adding mnt commands to scripts, then auto-start. How about adding those remote data stores, so having an immediate view of any redundant copies. Recoll is nice because it only indexes when taking the menu option. The continuous indexing in Windows proofed quite a CPU hogger, the worst part being that somehow BOINC on Linux is caused to crawl all 4 processes on the quad, when on Windows it only seemed to affect the core where the normal priority process is running. Did I miss something here? Can that be controlled somehow?

Today also figured out how to add a repository to the PPA (Personal Package Archive) for auto-updating and low/behold Recoll/Xapian were updated upon finding new point releases.

I'm no Linux adept, still not, but I'll give it a chance, whilst it is way way to hot to work outside, just 37% humidity... need a sombrero I think... a big one. Maybe they sell them at the Mexican restaurant at the Riviera. Hats to protect against the sun are not very popular here. Tanning is an illness... some hormones that cause kind of withdrawal symptoms it seems when missing a day.

Short but enormously sweet. The teeth grinding slowness in Lucid Lynx particularly in Firefox (3.6) and visiting sites such as PhotoBucket which has a lot of scripts running it was remedied by 2 steps, the second not really necessary, but what the heck:

1. Visit System > Administration > Hardware Drivers. Check if version 'Recommended' is selected. (it was not on mine). After, blazing saddles.

2. Got the latest ported NVidia 256.35 drivers with help of Webupt8, a gem of a website, having this page up: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/how-to-install-nvidia-25635-display.html
. After, howling on blazing saddles.

And to celebrate the new found speeddemon, put GnoMenu http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/probably-best-5-gnomenu-themes.htmlon integrating well with GLX-Dock (Cairo-Dock). Now there is a search box in the Menu so just typing a few letters will find instantly what you want to launch, and it starts to look like Windows 7... a real glossy desktop and speedy, howling on blazing saddles

(Bet you, lots of CPU cycles are returned now to the crunching cause).