Following up on Karmic, Lucid and Natty, we have Xmonad on Oneiric Ocelot. Let’s get my biases out of the way. I love Xmonad. I hate Ubuntu Unity. $ sudo apt-get install gnome-panel xmonad $ sudo vi /usr/share/applications/xmonad.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Xmonad Exec=xmonad NoDisplay=true X-GNOME-WMName=Xmonad X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=WindowManager X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true $ sudo vi /usr/share/xsessions/xmonad-classic.desktop [Desktop Entry] [...]

Inferno is a distributed operating system developed by the same geniuses who invented UNIX, C, UTF-8, Plan-9 from Bell Labs/Lucent. It’s cutting edge research and I’m installing it to do, well, research. If things work out, I’ll be installing it on another machine, and will clean this up then. But for now on Ubuntu 11.04 [...]

Xmonad on Natty Narwhal is a snap to set up. Just install xmonad 0.9.1: $ sudo apt-get install xmonad Create a config directory: $ mkdir ~/.xmonad Create a new config: $ vi ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Gnome import XMonad.Layout.NoBorders main = xmonad gnomeConfig { modMask = mod4Mask , layoutHook = smartBorders (layoutHook gnomeConfig) } Compile [...]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it [...]

echo -e “#include<stdio.h>\nint main(){printf(\”Hi\\\n\”);}”>hi.c;gcc hi.c -o hi;./hi