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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Tuesday, June 01, 2004

One (Strange) Man's Hunt for the Linux Desktop

Linux Today: "I upgraded to Fedora Core 2 ... After I upgraded to FC2, I wanted to try out some new eye candy for my system. After reading Marcel Gagné's recent article on SuperKaramba, I was intrigued enough to give it a whirl ... PCLinuxOnline ran a tutorial about this GNOME eye candy recently, and I thought it would be worth a look. And it was, actually. It took a little while to get everything sorted out, because the documentation was a bit lean, but ultimately I got the GoodWeather, Popmail, and RRS-Feed desklets up and running. I think they look really sharp... when I can see them ... So, Linux on the desktop? Well, in the most literal sense of the termd, I'll believe it when I see it."

It's too bad Proffitt had to pull the tired old "Look, let's write about Linux on the desktop" trick in order to get people to read about what is essentially desktop widgets that run on GNOME. The real (but obsfuscated) point of the article--gDesklets--is actually really interesting.

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