A Cajun-Asian View

Well, as I mentioned earlier, I had installed Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft 64-bit version onto my gaming system to see if I can get the Nvidia 8800 GTS card working with it. Since I went that far, I took the tiny extra step and setup Beryl to run on it, and this is the result! It is quite smooth, even with the blurring effects (which do have some buggy artifacts that occur at times. I'm sure that will be worked out over time). Too bad flash doesn't work (Adobe didn't release a 64-bit Flash Player version for Linux), but truthfully, I don't miss it....
Here's the main hardware specs of the system:

• ENERMAX CS-10182-BA Black/Silver SECC 1.0 mm Server Computer Case - Retail
• ASUS M2N-E Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra MCP ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Windsor 2.2GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor - Retail
• CORSAIR XMS2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
• FSP Group (Fortron Source) AX500-A, 2.0 version, 2 SATA, PCI Express, 500W - Retail
• Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JSRTL 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - Retail
• SCEPTRE X20WG-Naga Black 20.1" 5ms (GTG) DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 1000:1 Built in Speakers - Retail
• PNY VCG88GTSXPB GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - Retail
• Hercules Game Theater XP

I'll probably upgrade the ram to 3 or 4 Gigs sometime later this year.

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