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Succumbing to Temptation: Ubuntu Studio

Published on 12th December 2007 Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes

Because the fancy artwork that comes with Ubuntu Studio does look appealing, I got lured into converting my vanilla Ubuntu 7.10 into something a bit more avant-garde. The theme's all very dark (you can have a peek here; file size is 1.1 MB) but it has a very appealing look, even if the merging of the application title bar and top desktop panel due to their having the same colour and texture is a little disconcerting. My momentary lapse of discipline also got me adding a whole array of audio, graphics and movie applications that I may never use; it's good to have them if I ever fancy a fiddle, but removal is not off the agenda either. The other thing that came with the package was an alternate kernel that looks as if it might be of the real time variety, at least if the "rt" in its package name is to be believed. The main reason for mentioning that is that VMware has ceased working, so I need to snag the correct kernel source code to get things going again. Let's hope that it's a successful venture...

Update: After a spot of poking, Synaptic offered up the required kernel header files and VMware was reinstated with only a modicum of effort. All's well that ends well.

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