Screenlets bring a collection of fun things and useful apps to addfunctional eye candy to the Linux desktop with little or no resourcedrain on the computer. Screenlets live on the desktop and provide ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

If you think whiz-bang graphical effects are limited to Windows Vista or Mac OS X, think again. The Linux distro Sabayon features some impressive desktop animations complete with whirling, rotating 3D ...

My interest in desktop eye candy vacillates with the seasons. The added productivity it brings to a particular desktop design is also a factor. Now that GNOME 3 forces a desktop without icons, I took ...

I'm setting up a G4 Cube with Yellow Dog for the sole purpose of Demo'ing linux at school and am looking for something to grab people's attention. <P>My first thought was running the matrix as ...