Day of Ubuntu Wallpapers

- Dawn of Ubuntu


- Noon of Ubuntu


- Dusk of Ubuntu


- Midnight of Ubuntu

I found these wallpapers via Dylan McCall's PPA. Dylan has taken the Dawn of Ubuntu wallpaper that used to ship with Ubuntu and created an animated desktop background. The background changes according to the time. You can download Day of Ubuntu .deb here or install his PPA.

I'm not a fan of transitional wallpapers so I download the source and extracted the wallpapers. If you just want the wallpapers, you can download them here.

Dawn of Ubuntu has been a personal favorite of mine since Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, it's nice to have noon, dusk and midnight added to my rotation.

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Install Chromium

Chromium is the open source project behind the Google Chrome web browser. While Chromium is still in development, it is shaping up to be a feature rich browser. It's already fast, has native theming support for Linux, flash support, and extensions.

Like the installing Firefox 3.5 guide, this how-to will use a Personal Package Achieve (PPA) to install and update Chromium as development continues.



Step 1: Add The PPA
- Go to the PPA for Ubuntu Chromium Daily Builds Webpage
-Select your distro, the PPA has builds for Hardy (8.04), Intrepid (8.10), Jaunty (9.04) and Karmic (9.10).


- Add the Chromium daily build repository for your distro to your source list
in a terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

- Paste, save and exit

Step 2: Add The Repository Key:
- Copy the key from this public key server page (use the 1024R Link)

- Paste it into a text file

- paste, save and exit

- Go to Software Sources (System->Administration->Software Sources)

- Under the Authentication Tab select "+ Import Key File..."
- Navigate to where you have saved the PPA key.
This will leave you in the root area of your hard disk, if you saved the key in your Home folder you will have to navigate to it. (File System->Home->user folder)
- Import the key

- Update your Repositories
in a terminal type:

sudo apt-get update

Install Chromium
in a terminal type:

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

I watched an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicals on Hulu and a couple of YouTube videos. Playback is decent, but I'd really like to know what you think of it.

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Install Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 has some great features planned. As of the time this article was written it is still in development and some plugins do not work or conflict with new features. If you'd like try out Firefox 3.5 before it's officially included in Ubuntu, there is a is a Personal Package Archives (PPA) with a daily build of Firefox 3.5 that makes installation easy. To install Firefox 3.5, codenamed Shiretoko, you have to add the PPA and its key to your repositories.

Add the PPA To Your Repository:
- Go to the Mozilla Daily PPA Page
- Select the correct packages for your version of Ubuntu (8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10)

- Copy the Mozilla daily repository to your source list
in a terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

- save and exit

Add the Repository Key:
- copy the key from this public key server page

- paste it into a text file


- save and exit

- Go to Software Sources (System->Administration->Software Sources)

- Under the Authentication Tab select "+ Import Key File..."
- Navigate to where you have saved the PPA key. *This will leave you in the root area of your hard disk, if you saved the key in your Home folder you will have to navigate from your File System->Home->user folder

Update your Repositories
in a terminal type:

sudo apt-get update

Install Firefox 3.5

sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5-branding firefox-3.5-gnome-support xulrunner-1.9.1 xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support

It will install under it's development name Shiretoko, in Applications->Internet

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