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Faster PhotoViewer:
If you think the default image viewer (Eye of Gnome or Gthumb) is a little too slow in displaying those high resolution images from your new digital camera. Give "Shotwell PhotoViewer" a try. It can use multiple cores of your CPU to pre-cache the image and the speed difference is very noticeable. The following steps should get you set for Ubuntu (or any Debian-based distro)
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install shotwell
If you think the default image viewer (Eye of Gnome or Gthumb) is a little too slow in displaying those high resolution images from your new digital camera. Give "Shotwell PhotoViewer" a try. It can use multiple cores of your CPU to pre-cache the image and the speed difference is very noticeable. The following steps should get you set for Ubuntu (or any Debian-based distro)
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install shotwell
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Enable Root:
Ubuntu disables the root acccount by default, and instead provides certain user account with sudo privileges. If you still want to enable the root account, follow this procedure. In the terminal, type $ sudo passwd root.
This will prompt you for a new root password (after you provide your password to get sudo access), and you can set it here. After this you can use root as the user-name and set the password to get root access. If you want to again disable it in future, you can lock it as follows
$sudo passwd -1 root