When asked about America accusing Iran of interfering in Iraq the Iranian president said: “Is it not funny that those with 160,000 forces in Iraq accuse us of interference?”

(This was posted using Firefox 3 beta 3 and Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Alpha 5)

2007 for me personally has been the year where Linux on the Desktop became a reality but before I get into this check out the videos from my new years party. It turned out to be quite a good start to the year!

January
One of my first posts …

This desktop is running on Ubuntu 7.10 and is using Compiz Fusion with the Avant Windows Navigator (the bottom dock) and Screelets.

The Now Playing screenlet is using a customised theme that I created myself. It can be found here: Gnome Look
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Back in May of this year, Kaweh Dashti one of my good friends decided to try out Ubuntu after all of my preaching.

This is a quote at the end of his post:

Anyway, with those few exceptions, I am well impressed with how far linux has come. I will give …

Hot on the heals of Dell offering my OS of choice, Ubuntu. Tesco, the number one supermarket in the UK has started shipping PCs with Ubuntu pre-installed. It’s a shame it is not the very latest version but it’s a start! Check out the link below.

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-3224.aspx

Almost six months ago I installed Linux to test it. I first tried openSuse but wasn’t that impressed. I thought I’d check out the market leader at the time: Ubuntu. I loved it and haven’t looked back since. I said goodbye to Microsoft and said goodbye to viruses …

I decided to upgrade and although I first thought there was a major problem, it turned out the network I was using was playing up.

So far I’m liking the new Ubuntu. The Compiz works fine with just a couple of minor issues. For example the bottom …

I’m toying with the idea of upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10 Beta. In just a month the full version will be released but I’m impatient!

So should I stay or should I go? (Should I stay at 7.04 or upgrade to 7.10 Beta?)

I just though I’d show you a more advanced view of Linux Ubuntu!

EDIT: Don’t forget to check out the Compiz Cylinder here!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6610901.stmI didn’t have time to write about this, in the morning but I’m very excited by this news.Dell, who is quite a large distributor (if not the largest of PCs) will start to ship some of their PCs with Ubuntu Linux installed already. This also …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6610901.stm

My new graphics card arrived in the post. I was very impressed as I only ordered it on Saturday and it has already arrived! Amazon rule! I plugged it in and expected some problems with Vista …