Not sure why you'd want to do this but... If you want to make your windows XP,Vista Machines look like ubuntu you need to follow this procedure

Want a really hot OSX like dock that blows simdock and awn out of the water? Well Cairo Dock comes fully loaded with a ton of fun features to play with, including its own widgets, themes, and auto update function!

I love how anti-linux advocates and windows fanbois always pick on Linux for hardware compatibility or rather lack of thereof. Just about every rant about Linux I have seen so far includes a gripe about it not supporting new or exotic hardware out of the box. Funny thing is that, neither does Windows.

With the Fonty Python font manager, you can organize your fonts into groups (called “pogs”), and install and uninstall these groups when you need them. When a pog is not installed, you won’t have the fonts it contains filling up your menus.

Every major operating system has more than one media center solution for users who can't spend a day without watching a movie or listening to music. In Linux we're all familiar with MythTV and Freevo, two media center applications that are so appreciated they even have got their own distributions. Freevo is highly configurable, and Freevo 2 SNV builds look promising.

At the moment, for an average user, it’s pretty hard to install third party software. Why?

Which path should you follow? Should you take advantage of Ubuntu's package manager and use it to upgrade your system to the latest 8.04 Hardy Heron release, or should you download a CD or DVD ISO image and do a clean install?

Docks became popular when Mac began using them in their operating system. But these days docks are available on all platforms.