SuperKamba Desktop! Another look.

Gary from the Freespire Forums sends along this screen shot of his Linspire Linux desktop. He's running SuperKramaba using the crystal monitor widget.

Again, Linux proves to be an operating system that can be customized in thousands of ways. You can make your desktop as distinctive and individual as you want!

Get Linux and stand out.

UPDATE: Gary posted a comment stating that a larger image of his desktop can be viewed here. Thanks, Gary!

SuperKaramba Simply Super!

The big "eye candy" in desktop computing seems to be desktop widgets. These are little gadgets that give you any number things for your desktop like weather reports, photo slide shows, streaming news and info, etc.

The Apple Mac has a bunch of these as does Yahoo! for Windows. But probably the best of the bunch is SuperKaramba for Linux! SuperKaramba is community supported and has thousands of little gadgets for your desktop. In the above screen shot, you can see I'm running a weather widget called Liquid Weather as well as a Wikipedia search bar, clock, and space wheel (patterned after the one in the movie 2001).


SuperKaramba sits in your system tray and runs in the background. You can you can run any number of widgets at once on your desktop (depending on memory and system resources) Superkaramba makes it easy to install new widgets. Simply open and select "New Stuff." You're then presented with a list of the newest and most popular widgets. Click and install! Then select to run on your desktop! That's it! You can also install widgets you download from kde-look.org.

SupeKaramba really helps to add functionality and polish to your desktop. And since it's community driven,it's free. You can also contribute your own widgets!

But you'll need to get Linux in order to get Superkaramba. Once you have Linux and SuperKarmaba, you'll have one of the best looking, most personally customized desktops around! (And one that is virus and malware free and free from Windows headaches!)

Amazing Linux Desktops!

This is a screen shot of my Linux desktop. As I've mentioned in earlier posts, most Linux distributions use the KDE desktop. it's pretty much the standard Linux desktop GUI (Gnome is a close second). And the Linux distributions I run use the the KDE desktop. KDE stands for Kool Desktop Environment. Some say the "K" in KDE doesn't stand for anything. But, for me, it stands for "Kool" because it really is cool! And the advantage it has over Windows is that the user can customize his/her desktop in an infinite number of ways.

If you take a good look at the screen shot, you'll see that I have toolbars on the top and bottom of the desktop. I have a couple of SuperKaramba widgets running, as well. One widgets displays local weather conditions and forecast and the other widget is a quick search bar for Wikipedia.

I also have a THIRD toolbar (in Linuxland we call them "panels"), sitting atop the bottom toolbar (panel). This third panel displays a ticker which updates the latest Linux news headlines. the second half of this panel is a dictionary.

I can hide these panels at anytime simply by clicking on the arrows at the right or left I can also drag these panels to any edge of the screen.

All this is incredibly easy to do! The best way to see this customization is action is to simply GET LINUX!

Download any of the distributions, bun to CD-ROM, and run it as a Live CD. You can then experiment with how easy it is to customize your KDE desktop.

Believe me, you'll be amazed at how much you can personalize your desktop compared to Windows.

When it comes to customizing, hands down, Linux wins!

(By the way, did you notice from my desktop that I'm running a couple of Windows applications in Linux? That's thanks to WINE! More on that in later posts! Stay tuned!)

Got a question about cartooning with Linux, or Linux in general? Email me at: georgetoon@gmail.com. If I use your question on my blog, I'll send you an original, signed George comic strip!