Epidermis theme manager is an open source GTK application for managing, automatically downloading and installing themes of various types, in order to transform the look of your Ubuntu

While I will never encourage anybody to use Windows, any version of Windows, I do accept the fact that a significant percentage of users still have to use it. I also accept the fact that some users would like to dual-boot between Linux and Windows.

Fedora 14 is the latest update to the Red Hat-sponsored, Linux distribution. It is one of a handful of Linux distributions that use LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, as the default disk partitioning scheme. The installer creates three logical volumes by default, besides the non-LVM /boot partition.

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 10.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

Everyone of you should have heard about Unity replacing Gnome from "ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal" onwards. Well if you want to try Unity interface on your Ubuntu 10.10/10.04 Desktop well here's the easiest way to do it

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

In ubuntu 10.10 you can quite easily set your Desktop prefrences to "show home icon, trash icon, mounted volumes and computer icon in your ubuntu 10.10 desktop".

Here's how it's done:-

In this last (for now) post about the KDE Netbook Desktop, Jamie A. Watson focuses on what it is like to actually use it on a typical netbook. He will be using his Samsung N150 Plus, running PCLinuxOS 2010.7. This is a very typical netbook, with an Atom N450 CPU, 1 GB memory, 10" display, 1024x600 resolution.