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A slick looking desktop is possible on Ubuntu!
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| Looking good is important for an OS — Mac OS would be a lot less cool if it
| wouldn’t be considered so well designed — and I think that this is where
| Linux stays behind. There are a lot of terribly awesome pieces of art out
| there on the Internet, but they aren’t always that easy to find. For example:
| the place to be for a good wallpaper is of course deviantART, but you have to
| know about it’s existence. If you want a good looking theme, go to
| GNOME-Look.org. There are loads and loads of elements, window borders and,
| the hardest part to make, icons.
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http://qense.nl/a-slick-looking-desktop-is-possible-on-ubuntu
Ubuntu Server: Lean, mean, cloud-making machine
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| Ubuntu Server is a fast, free, no-frills Linux distribution that fills a
| niche between utilitarian Debian and the GUI-driven and, some would argue,
| over-featured Novell SUSE and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/060109-ubuntu-server-test.html
Recent:
My favorite useful Compiz features
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| Personally, I am most concerned with the Compiz plugins that add
| functionality to my desktop. There are plenty of those too. I am going to
| outline some of my favorites and most useful.
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http://adventuresinswitching.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-favorite-useful-compiz-features.html
Compiz Support For Multi-Pointer X
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| In May we shared that Multi-Pointer X (or MPX for short) was entering the
| mainline X server. While it was merged to master that month, X Server 1.5 was
| already branched out and therefore it won't appear in X.Org 7.4, but it will
| appear in X Server 1.6 (X.Org 7.5) until next year.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjU4MA
Related:
Compiz is the Most Important Thing to Ever Happen to Linux.
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| If the Linux community wants to wipe Windows and Mac out of the OS business
| all they need to do in focus all of their collective efforts on developing
| Compiz. With the combine intelligence of hundreds of thousands of nerds we
| could develop the most pimped out windows management system known to mankind.
| The kids don’t want stability, they want an OS w/ rims that spin.
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http://fffff.at/compiz-is-the-most-important-thing-to-ever-happen-to-linux
Compiz is Cool – and Why That Matters
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| One of the most vexed questions within the open source world is when, if
| ever, GNU/Linux will take off on the desktop. Strangely, this isn't really
| about capabilities: as someone who has Ubuntu running on both of his main
| systems, I can attest to the fact that GNU/Linux is not just usable, it's a
| downright pleasure to use. In fact, I constantly marvel at how transparent
| open source has become: most of the time I'm simply not aware that I'm using
| it – it just works.
|
| This raises the interesting question: so what's missing? What more does open
| source need to do in order to capture the attention of the general user? I
| think the answer can be found on this YouTube video.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=701&blogid=14
Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.7.6 out in wild
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| In the new features there is now a new “Static Switcher” that shows
| thumbnails of all the open windows and moves caret instead of thumbnails.
| Place plugin received a rewrite that enhances it’s multi-display support.
| Gtk-window-decorator is now accesessibilit(a11y) sensitive and ezoom plugin
| now has area zoom, helping people with disabilities to work on computer with
| ease.
|
| Eye-candy? Full sphere!! I’ll let a picture talk for itself.
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http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/2008/06/01/compiz-and-compiz-fusion-076-out-in-wild/
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