2178004_460s.jpg (400×330) How To Install GNOME-Shell Themes in Ubuntu 11.10. Earlier today we posted five of our favourite themes for GNOME Shell. Chances are you’ll want to try a few of those themes out on your desktop – but how to do it? Providing you’re using Ubuntu 11.10 and GNOME-Shell, it’s actually quite simple once we’ve installed a few odds and ends first… Preparation The first thing we need to do (aside from ensuring we actually have GNOME-Shell installed) is to install the handy ‘user-theme-selector’ extension. This isn’t provided in Ubuntu 11.10 out of the box but it is available to download in easily-installable .deb format. First download and install: Once completed install the next part: - If you don’t already have it you’ll also need the GNOME Tweak Tool installed, too: - You’ll now need to log out and back in for the extension to be ‘picked up’ by the system, then enable the extension from the ‘Shell Extensions’ tab in the ‘Advanced Settings/GNOME Tweak Tool’ app.
Installing Themes Not all themes available online are packaged correctly. Microsoft to enable Linux on its Windows Azure cloud in 2012. This headline is not an error. I didn't have one too many craft brews over the New Year's weekend. Microsoft is poised to enable customers to make virtual machines (VMs) persistent on Windows Azure, I've heard from a handful of my contacts who've asked not to be identified. What does this mean? Customers who want to run Windows or Linux "durably" (i.e., without losing state) in VMs on Microsoft's Azure platform-as-a-service platform will be able to do so. Microsoft is planning to launch a Community Technology Preview (CTP) test-build of the persistent VM capability in the spring of 2012, according to partners briefed by the company. The new persistent VM support also will allow customers to run SQL Server or SharePoint Server in VMs, as well. Windows Azure already has support for a VM role, but it's not very useful at the moment.
"The current VM role when rebooted or randomly recycled by the Azure platform loses any data stored -- any persistence. (Click on snippet to enlarge) OMG! Ubuntu! | Everything Ubuntu. Daily. The Ubuntu Vodafone WebBook “Disappoints” Reviewers. The Ubuntu-powered Vodafone WebBook has been out in South Africa for a few months but little opinion on the device has appeared online.
Or so I thought. Having exhausted my own avenues trying to get hold of one of the devices to review for OMG! Ubuntu! I was pointed in the direction of a write-up of the webbook by ‘GearBurn‘ – a South-African Technology blog. And their verdict on the low-powered and low-cost machine was pretty damning: “Cheap, Plastic, Nasty.” Cheap, Plastic and Nasty CrunchGear’s Stuart Thomas, in reviewing the netbook, doesn’t pull any punches, criticising the ‘plastic’ feel of the device, the ‘frustrating’ mouse buttons, and the ‘ridiculous’ boot time. Thomas does leave kinder words for Ubuntu itself which he calls ‘easy to use’, and praises the ‘super long battery life’ provided with the Webbook. Underpowered There’s no denying that the underpowered and under-stocked nature of the device – which comes as a tradeoff to price it so cheap – does impact the performance.
The Top Five Linux Stories of 2011. Taking a look back at Linux in 2011 Just like with networking, I looked at my five most popular Linux stories of the last year, How to install Google's Chrome OS Review: Barnes & Nobles' Nook Color goes Android Tablet The Five Best Desktop Linux Distributions Five Reasons why Google's Linux Chromebook is a Windows killer Sun CEO explicitly endorsed Java's use in Android: What do you say now Oracle? And while they're all fine stories, I can't say that they're the most significant stories of the year. 5) GNOME Forks Not that long ago, GNOME was the most popular Linux desktop interface.
GNOME has seen a major revision, 3.2, and many people still don't like it. 4) The Decline of the Linux desktop I recently wrote a story that got a lot of people worked up noticing that Mint has gotten to be the most popular Linux desktop People are still writing responses to that story over a month later. The matter of whether Ubuntu is still the most popular Linux distribution isn't that big a deal. 1) Patent Wars.