Ubuntu
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
This guide will show you how to use the Free, Open Source driver for many ATI graphics cards called "radeon" or "ati". It will provide 2D and 3D acceleration in your video hardware.
The open source ATI driver (xserver-xorg-video-ati) - Community
Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more. Installing the .deb file downloaded from the Google Earth Website
Google Earth
Medibuntu ( M ultimedia, E ntertainment & D istractions I n U buntu ) is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons (copyright, license, patent, etc). Some of these packages include the libdvdcss package from VideoLAN , FFMpeg codecs not supported in multiverse, and the external binary codecs package (commonly known as w32codecs) used by MPlayer and xine . Patent and copyright laws operate differently depending on which country you are in.
Medibuntu
Free software for physicists
There’s a lot of free software available on the Web for academic and technical purposes. In the absence of anything better to do, here’s a list of the stuff I’m aware of and rate as being worth a try. First, though, some pointers to bigger lists on Wikipedia: