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Jon’s Tech Blog: The Terrible State of Linux Screen Capture

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 4, 2006

“The past few days I’ve been using Ubuntu 6.06, ‘Dapper Drake,’
first as a beta, then as of last night, the final build. I’ve got
to say, I’ve been completely blown away. This is the first time
that I’ve seriously considered ditching my windows partition
completely and running strictly Linux… that is, of course, before
I tried to create a screencast of the amazing 3D graphical effects
of XGL and Compiz.

“As I’ve said before, I use Camtasia Studio on windows to
capture the featured distribution inside of a virtual
machine…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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