Compiz on Intrepid Ibex

I have successfully activated compiz on ubuntu 8.10 that I have and I'm so happy about it. Install it by going to the synaptic manager and choose the one with compiz manager and whoala, 3D animation and other compiz features can now be use by your pc. I really love it. I was also able to change each desktop background on every workspaces, which I found here.

Intrepid Ibex - Ubuntu 8.10

Today, before noon, I have successfully installed Ubuntu 8.10 after trying twice. I used a bootable USB to do it. I then customize the theme into pink one and change the wallpaper and panels...hehe I'm going back again to this nice-than-windows OS because it has plenty of features and advantages than the monopolized one.

Richard Matthew Stallman

Background...

• Born: March 16, 1953, New York City
• Parents: Daniel Stallman and Alice Lippman
• Atheist
• www.stallman.org
• Hired by IBM New York Scientific Center
• preprocessor for the PL/I programming language on the IBM 360
• Harvard University
  
• programmer at the AI Laboratory of MIT
• regular in the hacker community: “RMS”
• graduated from Harvard magna cum laude earning a BA in Physics in 1974
• knee injury
• awarded six honorary doctorates and two honorary professorships

Where it all began...

• MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) installed a password control system in 1977
• decrypt the passwords and sent users messages containing their decoded password
• to demonstrate that they were not increasing security, but only hindering free access to each other's software and discouraging sharing it

Works...

• AI truth maintenance system called dependency-directed backtracking with Gerald Jay Sussman
• early work on the problem of intelligent backtracking in constraint satisfaction problems
• TECO, Emacs, and the Lisp Machine Operating System
• Copyleft
• is a play on the word copyright
• practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions
  
• requires the same freedom be preserved in modified versions
• author surrenders some but not all rights under copyright law
• GNU General Public License, Tiny BASIC
• GNU Project
• “GNU's Not Unix”
• September 1983
• free Unix-like operating system
• free software movement
• GNU/Linux operating system
• incorrectly called Linux
  
• Free Software Foundation
• October 1985

Some humor...

• “I am also a saint, in the Church of Emacs--Saint IGNUcius...”
• "There are no godfathers in the Church of Emacs, since there are no gods, but you can be someone's editorfather."

Sources:
http://www.stallman.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
http://www.gnu.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft