Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Mar 2008 01:47 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris The fourth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release includes the all-new artwork for the 2008 Spring release, further improvements to the Mandriva software management tools, WPA-EAP support in the network configuration tools, KDE 3.5.9 and available 4.0.1, some new default applications in KDE and GNOME, and the latest pre-release of OpenOffice.org 2.4. See here for download information. And URPMI got support for rpm5.
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RE[5]: New artwork you say?
by sbergman27 on Mon 3rd Mar 2008 18:37 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: New artwork you say?"
sbergman27
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Love it or hate it... Ubuntu's choice of color scheme was daring. I'm no graphic artist, but twenty-eight years of sitting in front of computer monitors has taught me that brown is probably the most variable color there is when it comes to different monitors, display cards, and lighting conditions. It can look very good. But then change the lighting a bit, and you've got baby feces as your background image. And even when it looks good, brown still has that unfortunate association with solid waste.

I like the Ubuntu theme alright. But I would not be averse to them switching to, say, green. Green is a nice, warm positive sort of "feel good" color. It suggests "nature". And it is easier to get right on a variety of displays.

As an aside, I note that cmost managed, as usual, to get his usual anti-Ubuntu comment in, under this thread about a completely different distro.

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