After messing about testing Compiz on Hardy, I decided that although it worked well it still had one main problem left. It can interfere with some of the other programs installed in Ubuntu, mostly games and programs that use OpenGL.
I began looking for an easy way to disable it without having to go into the [...]

XSane’s a great piece of software for scanning on Linux, but suffers from over complexity for new users & it doesn’t really fit in with the rest of your Gnome programs when it comes down to the looks department.
Gnome Scan is software that was originally developed as part of the 2006 Google Summer of Code. [...]

I've been updating the Ubuntu install of my Thinkpad Z60m from Dapper Drake 6.06 (if I remember rightly) to the latest one Gutsy Gibbon 7.10. In one of the updates from 6.06 and 7.04, the boot splash screen (Ubuntu uses usplash) stopped working. I tried to fix it with only partial success. But in the last update to 7.10, usplash got totally broken. While Linux booted, only appeared a black screen with a blinking cursor. As it is explained in the Gutsy Gibbon release notes this can be due a configuration error in the monitor resolution. But that was not my case.

Doing a bit of research I found that the links:
/usr/lib/usplash/usplash-artwork.so