Artificial Intelligence

My pleasure ^_^ You can make a cool Desktop without compiz; Here's one I made without running Compiz (well it was before compiz and beryl time); click to enlarge (1600x1200) No, compiz. The fake shadow on the lower bars are from gDesklets. Then I filled up upper bar with some usefull good looking desk applets. You can try with this one (a mac panel image which give some depth on your Desktop; With some GTK2 themes (depends which engine the theme is build around). You can drop an image into the panel, so the panel uses the image as panel layout. I know that themes build on aurora (GTK2 engine) can do that very well, though it says it's the slowest engine, but best looking IMHO. Otherwise I like to use themes that build on pixbuff. If the aurora engine isn't available in the repo, you can get it here; http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Aur...e?content=56438 Aurora Engine; click to enlarge (1680x1050) You want your root permission applications to have the same theme as you run as a normal user and want it to change when you change themes, icons, fonts on your user account? su ln -s /home/USERNAME/.themes /root/.themes ln -s /home/USERNAME/.icons /root/.icons ln -s /home/USERNAME/.fonts /root/.fonts Only work for custom made themes in your $home, not for themes installed globally. This may not be a major eyecandy; Making Audacious (music player) looking good; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=658282 click to enlarge (1680x1050)

The game needs -devel package of libsdl1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-image1.2 libgl1-mesa libglu1-mesa besides compiling tool. Then; tar jxfv sauerbraten_2007_12_24_assassin_edition_linux.tar.bz2 cd sauerbraten/src make install

A gnome enhanement thread? B) Compiz - http://www.compiz-fusion.org/ Screenlets - http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Home For a "mac bar" there's plenty for Gnome; Kiba Dock - http://www.kiba-dock.org/ best and most advanced dock out there. (required: compiz) then there's Cairo Dock - http://www.cairo-dock.org/index.php or AWN - https://launchpad.net/awn For terminal I can recommend Tilda - http://tilda.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Alternative Menu bar USP - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=222546

Apricot? The first thing that came into my mind was the Open Source project that was the first name before they changed it to "Yo! Fankie!". http://www.yofrankie.org/

Maybe it was USP (Ubuntu System Panel) you saw? - http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-system-panel/

Custom made, well buld on something which I have changed completly.

+1 Gnome Control Center, if people want that;

Congratz!!!

Also one for Ubuntu. Though the rumour says that Flash 11 will be 64-bit compatible. To install Flash 10 for 64-bit Ubuntu manually; wget http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh && sudo chmod +x flash10_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash10_en.sh Source of the script; #!/bin/bash # Script created by # Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com # Super minor updates by jason.melton[at]gmail[dot]com # Updates by Alejandro Cuervo 3[at]cuervo[dot]net # Released under GPL echo "Closing Firefox" sudo killall -9 firefox echo "Downloading and instaling Getlibs for required libraries" wget http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb echo "Removing previous installs of flash:" sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper echo "Installing ia32-libs and nspluginwrapper" sudo apt-get install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper echo "Getting libs" sudo getlibs -p libcurl3 sudo getlibs -p libnss3-1d sudo getlibs -p libnspr4-0d echo "Installing Flash Player 10" cd ~ wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz tar zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ rm -rf ~/install_flash_player_10_linux/ sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so echo "Linking the libraries so that firefox can see them." sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ echo "Done :-)" echo "You may re-start Firefox now"

You can get it here (available formats: deb, tar, rpm). Release Notes

HDR image of New York's 9th Avenue. :) Real Picture, works best with HD widescreen "42 to 50-inch. Really Sharp Wallpaper. http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details.php?id=01324

Already happening in Denmark with fibre, I was wondering myself if I should change from my cable to fibre, it's an amazing technology.

Arctic I suspect that we'll see a review :)

Though, I'm not a KDE user (Gnome user here), I have tried messing around with KDE. Still some of KDEs major apps still needs to be ported (or re-written) from qt3 to qt4. Still lacks of themes but I guess people soon will come up with stuff. I like they have improved the "buttons/options" everywhere in endless gui menus. Much better now (could improved alot more if you ask me). Plasma looks awesome. Only complain is the pain-in-the-ass menu. Not very friendly or useful IMHO. Still needs a qt4 native dock. I've seen that Opera have qt4 version in beta, looks pretty impressive.

Still playing with aurora engine; click to enlarge 1680x1050 pix (488KB)

Click to enlarge 1680x1050 Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit Gnome GTK2: Aurora Engine Kiba Dock: SVN Screenlets: Play Now, Places, applications, error log Tilda Terminal

Is there a 64-bit CD version? Could only find the DVD version.

Good read :) I always looked forward reading your reviews, Arctic. Looking forward for the next.

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For those Linux gamers that have been waiting almost a year to play Unreal Tournament 3, it looks like that day is finally getting close. Earlier this week Jeff Morris from Epic Games had confirmed on our forums that the UT3 Linux release will include their in-game UnrealEd Editor program. Source: Phoronix.com

DEbian goes brown as well? :unsure:

version 1.4 is out: Changelog 1.4 Secret Maryo Chronicles Racer F-1 Spirit FlightGear FreeCol FlyingGuns Danger from the Deep Beyond the red line OpenTTD Hero of Allacrost

Updates: Changelog 1.3 Open Source Sauerbraten Warsow Liquid War Astromenace Lost Labyrinth Project Starfighter TeeWorlds Freespace 2 N Game (freeware)

v1.2 is out Changelog 1.2 Open Source Games Nexuiz World of Padman Those Funny Funguloids OpenTyrian OpenArena Urban Terror Commercial SimCity 3000 Knights & Merchants Railroad Tycoon II Changelog 1.1 Open Source Games Tremulous Alien Arena Commercial Bubble Shooter Majesty Marble Blast NWN + Epansions Runes of Avalon 1 + 2 Sacred Gold Edition Savage 1 + 2 Uplink

Another one for an Open Source Game Alien Arena- cover also made from scratch: