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The Linux desktop keeps improving, but there's a new group working on the Linux desktop that is probably heading in for trouble. The XPde Desktop Environment is an effort to make Linux look exactly like Windows [XPde]. Somehow, if this begins to be popular, I think Microsoft will be very unhappy about this project. It's one thing to copy the essential functionality of Windows, afterall, Windows did the same to Macintosh; it is another to copy Windows pixel for pixel [via Slashdot]4:38:54 PM  permalink  comment []  

 
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A windsurfer gets a lot of air off 'swell city' on the Columbia River Gorge just south of the Hood River Bridge. Windsurfers named the area for its consistently big swells. (September 19, 2002) Photo Credit: Jeff Larsen/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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