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New Ubuntu 9.04 Login Screen
I refrained myself from posting anything, except the food challenge, last week. Basically so that the food challenge was nice and consecutive. Most of the stuff I thought: Gee I might post about that; is no longer something I feel like writing about.
But I can’t go past this one: I installed a Ubuntu 9.04 Virtual Machine (Under VirtualBox). After some updates the login screen changed to the following. Put simply: I like it. No frills, no fuss.
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The gray bar at the top and bottom are part of the VirtualBox window.