Linux Meetup on Tuesday

There’re Meetups for all kinds of things, but I’ve been mostly to Slashdot Meetups. I went to one Linux Meetup back in January (to California Pizza Kitchen) but there hasn’t been one since then (they’re automatically cancelled if less than five people sign up).

However, there’s another Linux Meetup tomorrow (Tuesday), at the Cafe Brazil on Elm Street. I'm not sure what I'll order, though I often order a make-your-own omelette with sun-dried tomatoes, feta cheese, and chorizo sausage. Hmm, yeah, that could be good.

Red Hat 8.1 Beta

I was excited to hear about the Red Hat 8.1 beta on Slashdot. Back when 8.0 came out, the fonts really impressed me, but some of that was through back-porting cutting-edge code into their current release.

With this latest version, my hope is that the anti-aliased fonts will be through stable software (and not just the latest builds from CVS). In any case, my PC-upgrade plans (which included installing Linux onto the new PC) have been put on hold due to my recent job situation (need a web developer?), so I can easily wait for this beta to mature.

Slicker for KDE

In this Slashdot story covering John Dvorak’s notion that Linux is too much like Windows (yawn) was mention of Slicker, a replacement for KDE’s Kicker.

Coding hasn’t started yet, but there are several screen mockups of a proposed design. So far, I’m very much impressed, and I hope this project succeeds. (There’s also discussion of Slicker development in the Gentoo forums, so perhaps it has a chance after all.)

LighthouseBlue Theme for Gnome

From the Gnome-announce mailing list:

Those of us that read OSNews regularly know that Eugenia writes some thorough reviews and have no inhibitions about commenting on what she thinks are bad UI design choices. Well Jan Rosczak read one of her articles and decided to try and make her happy. The result is a very nice Gtk+ 2.0 theme which I myself use. For screenshots and the full story check out the lighthouseblue homepage.

I really trust Eugenia’s opinions on UI design, and LighthouseBlue is a great looking theme that I think even she would be pleased with :).