Follow-up post to recovering files with unrm and Lazarus. This time exploring the graphical web-based interface.

Is your software budget pipeline filled with rust? Do your customers, vendors and friends have to save their files in a different file format so you can open them? If your software cabinet looks like it would be a better fit in a software museum, there is hope — hope in free software.

Mac4Lin is a complete UI for GTK based desktops that uses a script which takes care of absolutely everything needed to make Gnome or Xfce look like Mac. The dock, the GTK theme, Emerald theme (window borders), new icons, new wallpapers, taskbar image, GDM themes, cursors, themes for Pidgin, Firefox, several players and even the system sounds will seem to be like running a Mac.

Previously I was using Ubuntu 8.04 and now after the release of 9.04, I thought to give this new version a try. So, I installed this Jaunty Jackalope over my Hardy Heron.

There are many people who look upon Ubuntu most unfavorably for one reason or another. I do have to take issue when some Linux “guru” knocks on another distro for being “too easy”.

Over the past four years, I've seen GNU/Linux grow and mature in ways most people just wouldn't have expected. However, there is a bit of a shortcoming: while distributions constantly get easier to install, remix, and redistrubute, there are only a handful of providers that even support GNU/Linux as an option.

After some partition sleuthing, I finally got Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope installed alongside my Vista installation. Here’s some thoughts:

There is a soft spot in my heart for Linux Mint: Mint 3.0 was the first Linux distribution that I really used rather than experimented with.