Category5 Technology TV - Ubuntu Unity Replacements

Ubuntu Unity Replacements

S04E38
June 14, 2011

Robbie and Christa take a look at scaling video to fill the frame in OpenShot Video Editor, and offer a couple viable alternatives to Ubuntu's default Unity desktop.

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Topics Covered:

Robbie Ferguson, Christa Wells and Hillary Rumball present in studio.
Robbie's recommendations and key points with regards to use of an external hard drive. Is it really safer than saving on your computer's drive?
Progress of our fundraising to purchase the replacement hardware.
Viewer Pictures: Congratulations to John Gallagher who joins us via Miro Internet TV from Glasgow.
Viewer Question: Where is Eric?
Viewer Question: @kgoosie asks: Are you still using your UnRaid box? If so, how is it still working out for your needs?
Viewer Question: @andrewjamison asks: My video camera does not support an external mic, is there an easy way to overlay an external audio track to sync with the [voice?]
What a marker is for in video production.
Viewer Comment: Great topic about the OpenShot video editor, but you really need a good computer to make it work. My computer goes very slow when creating video.
Viewer Tip: For users who want to test their web site across multiple browsers, try browsershots.org
Feature: Video Editing on Linux Part 2 - Scaling your media to fill the frame.
Hillary's dollar store find: Star Trek's Scotty
Top stories from the Category5.TV Newsroom.
Fears about Facebook's "Tag Suggestions".
Feature: Alternatives to Unity on Ubuntu Linux 11.04.
What Ubuntu Linux is.
Robbie's thoughts about Unity, having used it exclusively for over a month.
A couple of Robbie's biggest dissappointments with Unity.
- Desktop users are left behind the touch screen user.
- You cannot paste to the Alt-F2 run dialogue.
- It is buggy / causes applications to lose responsiveness.
Robbie recommends trying the lxde and xfce4 packages to replace Unity on the Ubuntu 11.04 desktop.
Why Robbie recommends using the xfce4 package and not the xubuntu-desktop package in Ubuntu.
Changing your default user session on Ubuntu so you can try LXDE and XFCE instead of Unity or Gnome.
Viewer Question: Can you do a walkthrough of moving my /home folder to another partition on Ubuntu 10.10?
Editing your /etc/fstab file.
Obtaining the UUID of your hard drive using blkid.