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Ubuntu 10.04

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I am using the standard gnome desktop with compiz manager (stable)

Additional software

Ubuntu is very flexible when installing new software.

Software from Ubuntu Tweak

Ubuntu Tweak:

Sources:

• Adobe Flash PPA
• Medibuntu
• PPA for AWN Windows Manager testing, see Issues
• PPA for Ubuntu Wine Team
• SMPlayer
• Virtual Box official source
• P7zip-full

Programs:

• Ubuntu restricted extras
• Flashplugin64-installer
• Google Chrome Unstable ( version 7.x)
• Skype
• VLC
• Wine

Software from Launchpad

• Popper Email Notification
• TLP Powersave, also see TLP article
• Rhythmbox radio browser
• Nautilus Terminal

Other Software

• Bit Defender Antivirus for Linux with free licence for non comercial usage

Other Issues

AWN and run apps dialog

There is a problem with using AWN and the run apps dialog (Alt+F2). It simply doesn't work any more, when you disable gnome-panel (which you have to, if you like to run awn only).

A good replacement for the build-in gnome-panel dialog is Gmrun:

sudo apt-get install gmrun

Then do the following steps:

1. disable the run dialog in compiz configuration settings -> Gnome comaptibility
2. disable the Alt+F2 key combination
3. add a new key combination for gmrun and assign Alt+F2

And the best: now the launch entry in the awn main menu is working.

Faster internet browsing

1. Disable IpV6:

> vim /etc/sysctl.conf

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1

Reboot.

2. Install a Webproxy:

> sudo apt-get install squid

Squid runs on port 3128. I recommend to take the following entries in the configuration file (according to [1]).

> vim /etc/squid/squid.conf

#http_port 3128
http_port 127.0.0.1:3128
http_port 127.0.0.1:8080

# icp_port 3130
icp_port 0
 
#  TAG: no_cache
…
#We recommend you to use the following two lines.
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
no_cache deny QUERY

#Default:
# cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 100 16 256
cache_dir aufs /var/cache/squid 100 16 256

#Default:
# forwarded_for on
forwarded_for off

#Allow ICP queries from local networks only
#icp_access allow localnet
icp_access deny all

# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
# should be allowed
#acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8    # RFC1918 possible internal network
#acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
#acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16        # RFC1918 possible internal network

sudo mkdir /var/cache/squid
sudo /etc/init.d/squid restart