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Jaunty’s no joke

By william_berry ⋅ April 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Shuttleworth wasn’t kidding when he said user were in for a surprise with the latest flavor of Linux, Jaunty Jackalope.  While the title follows the traditional goofy naming convention of past Ubuntu distributions, this time Ubuntu is packing some serious heat.
My personal favorite, and perhaps where the distribution got its name in the first place, [...]

Gnome-do: A Launchy + dock replacement for Linux

By william_berry ⋅ April 30, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

For what seems like an eternity, I have been searching for a dock in Linux that emulates physics that are closer to what RocketDock for Windows offers. I have tried them all — from AWN to Cairo to Kiba, I just could not ever find one that felt smooth enough, or wasn’t extremely limited in [...]

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