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Runs Linux:

• This High Tech Touch Screen Enabled Label Printer, Runs Linux! And E17!

Android Pick:

• Flipboard
• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

Desktop App Pick:

• Format Junkie – fully featured media converter

• Picks so far

• Madjo

Distro Of The Day

• Untangle Gateway 9.3

Linux Action Show Subreddit

• Linux Action Show Subreddit

Search our past picks:

• Linux Action Show Lookup
• Thanks to sakuramboo!

News:

• Debian Community celebrates its 19th birthday
• Steam For Linux: “Another Interesting, But Not Valuable Contribution”
• Courageous sixth-grade teacher built a 70 computer lab for children equipped with Ubuntu (cost 0$)
• Google warns of using Adobe Reader – particularly on Linux
• Planetary Annihilation – A Next Generation RTS by Uber Entertainment Inc » Linux Support Confirmed!
• GNOME 3.5.5 impressions
• McCann: “I am more optimistic about GNOME than I’ve been in a long time”
• Official launchpad branch’s Unity Previews add fancy directly-into-the-dash preview functionalities for Ubuntu 12.10
  • Unity Previews demoed with a third-party Wikipedia lens

Making Unity Useable

Brought to you by: System76

While over time we’ve changed our tune on Unity, early on we were kind of rough. We thought it would be a bit grounding to look back and what we used to say about Unity.

Thanks to System76 and their awesome Wild Dog Performance PC for sponsoring this week’s segment!

Previous thoughts on Unity:

• Matt: How Ubuntu’s Unity Can Be Improved – Datamation

“Apparently spending 15 minutes looking for something in a menu that is more attractive provides more value than getting things done in less than 5 seconds.”

“It’s not clever, it’s tacky and freakishly annoying.”

• Chris: Ubuntu 11.04 Review

“I literally would wipe this off my system this instant if I was not forced to keep it for this review.”

• Use a faster launcher, Chris likes Do
• Install Drawers for Unity’s Launch Bar
• Create and edit quicklists and launchers with MenuLibre
• Intergreat with Google Docs: GWoffice
• Gwibber Lens
• Install SolusOS Patched Nautilus In Ubuntu 12.04 – Probably not a good idea! 🙂
• Use the Ubuntu 12.10 theme on 12.04 for a bit more polish.
• Unsettings: Tool To Disable Global Menu, Overlay Scrollbars And Tweak Unity
• Install the System Load Indicator
• Get a handle on all your PPAs

Using Unity for the first time:

• The Linux Action Faux

Feedback:

• I recommend X11vnc!
• Teamviewer remote viewing
• emelFM2 – a Dual Pane File Manager
• What Linux desktop do you use currently?
• Pick the BASH Champion!

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