While catching up on Doctor Who and Battlestar I started work trying to make my Ubuntu desktop just that bit more exciting, what you see above is the results of that, specs below;

Theme: moomex

Obtainable from: moomex

It's a GTK 2.x theme so all you need is the Gnome desktop to use it. Open System / Preferences / Appearance and drag-n-drop the downloaded archive file into the Theme panel to install & activate it.

Font Settings

I've really grown to love the Liberation fonts so have combined them with the theme, you can read my guide to installing them here; above are the settings I've used.

Font Rendering

I tweaked the Font Rendering to make the display better, 100dpi and using the LCD Subpixel rendering, plus the Terminal window's using transparency for that really glassy look (Green on Black).

Login Screen

Very Six-Feet-Under, you can grab this from here, it's called Underground Ubuntu GDM, awesome work by ZombieHero.

Don't mind the non-english text, it's not permanent ;-)

Same deal here, open System / Administration / Login Window, then drag-n-drop the downloaded archive file into the Theme window to install it.

Sorry, the background I snagged from way back, think it might be from OSX Leopard but correct me if i'm wrong.

Bye for now,

Seriously, how good is this Linux distribution. It's on a rolling release so you never need to worry about release numbers (7.04, 8.10, etc.) and it's so light and tightly put together, just excellent.

I installed a dual-boot install on my new HP laptop with Vista + ArchLinux using GRUB in about 5 minutes, really impressed about the intelligence of this build; well done to all involved.

Also for learning Linux it's got to be the best one to choose, ok it's a toughie with it's command-line install but with a 120mb install and creation of a rescue system incase you screw it up I've seriously grown to like it a lot; totally my favourite Linux distribution.

• ArchLinux Installation Guide
• Gnone Install