The best openbox themes for your minimalist desktop to look its best.

Best 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 for Fluxbox: http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Solaris%3A+Java+Fluxbox+System?content=63303. TWM theme: … Read more

FPS game Metro Last Light coming to Linux later this year. Another quality game on this free OS.

The 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 soon; this is one of … Read more

The Graphical User Interface has come a long way since Windows ’95.

The Windows '95 desktop. Look at those icons...

The 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 Getting hardware to cooperate. Nowadays … Read more

A look at the Windows 8 desktop, the Windows 8 interface is still present in this operating system.

This 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 8 tablets require a Windows … Read more

Desktop interfaces in the olden days versus today. have we moved in the right direction?

The 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. But that is not very … Read more

New Windows 8 interface and getting the start menu back.

This 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 from a 8 GiB USB … Read more