Compiz Fusion on a Radeon Mobility X1400 graphics card? Hell yeah!
Oh, driver hell. Proprietary drivers are the bane of Linux’s existence, as any Linux user with a current ATI graphics card can tell you. I have a Lenovo Z61m on which I’d like to install Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, but good luck — [...]
If you’re a debian user (this includes all of you Ubuntu folks!), then you may be familiar with the strangeness of status codes for dpkg -l. For example, let’s say you install postfix:
sudo apt-get install postfix
We can look at the package list with dpkg -l. Let’s take a look at postfix:
$ dpkg -l [...]