The Windows Server 2012 and the Windows 8 operating system both have the same theme; a strange-looking motif that is rather like a squared version of the Windows Basic theme. It is strange on a server operating system that you would have this instead of a more serious Windows Classic…
Read MoreBest Openbox themes. Metro X: http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Metrox+20131103?content=161079. A Windows 8 Metro inspired Openbox theme. Win 7: http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Win7?content=162490. A Windows 7 styled theme for PekWM. Nodoka openbox theme: http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Nodoka?content=126725. This is an Openbox theme intended for use with the Nodoka GTK engine. Turquoise nights: http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Turquoise+Nights+Ob?content=120386. A dark theme for Openbox. Solaris theme…
Read MoreThe quality FPS game Metro Last Light is coming to Linux later this year. This is a AAA title that showcases the quality graphics that modern computers have to offer gamers. There will be additional downloadable content to accompany this title. There will be many, many games available for Linux…
Read MoreThis is a UI for Linux that gives users a Metro styled screen to use on their Linux desktop. This looks like the Metro start screen, but you have to build the menu yourself. Metro might come to Linux in a proper fashion, but I am not sure if this…
Read MoreThe graphical user interfaces that we all enjoy have come a long way since the existence of the Windows ’95 operating system pictured on this page. Computing in those days was an exercise in frustration trying to get the various drivers installed and configured and adjusting the darned IRQs to…
Read MoreThis is a look at the Windows 8 RTM desktop. The Windows 8 Interface is still here, they would not remove that would they? But this is just a tablet interface on a desktop machine, at least with Gnome Shell and Unity the interface makes some sense, but the Windows…
Read MoreThe olden days of computing were dominated by the massive Microsoft corporation, they bought their DOS operating system from IBM, and copied the mouse and icons interface from the Xerox Star operating system from 1981. Nowadays the Ubuntu distribution is copying the Macintosh OSX interface to create the Unity interface….
Read MoreThis is what the new copy dialog looks like on Windows 8. The actual process of copying this amount of data over a USB 3.0 connection was actually very fast, the previous versions of Windows were slower at copying data, but now it is getting faster. And I was copying…
Read MoreThe Windows 8 interface will be the much talked about Metro design, and like it or not it will be the default when you start up your Windows 8 box. Applications started in Windows 8 will keep on running after you have “closed” them until they are needed again. This…
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