Linus Torvalds Is Now a U.S. Citizen

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Linux kernel architect and sexy programmer Linus Torvalds has been living in the United States since he moved here from Finland in 1997, and two of his American-born kids are U.S. citizens by virtue of their birth. (One Slashdot commenter wittily points out that this makes them “GNU/Anchor babies.”) But earlier this month, Torvalds announced that he had finally taken the step of becoming a U.S. citizen himself.
Writing on the Linux kernel mailing list yesterday, Torvalds offhandedly mentioned that he would test something ”in a bit – I need to go do voter registration and socsec update first, though – I became a US citizen last week.”
Torvalds touched on this ground before in a 2008 blog post:

Yeah, yeah, we should probably have done the citizenship thing a long time ago, since we’ve been here long enough (and two of the kids are US citizens by virtue of being born here), but anybody who has had dealings with the INS will likely want to avoid any more of them, and maybe things have gotten better with a new name and changes, but nothing has really made me feel like I really need that paperwork headache again.

Well: Paperwork headache reckoned with. Congrats to Torvalds on his citizenship.

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How to make Ubuntu Linux look like Mac OS X

How to make Ubuntu Linux look like Mac OS X

intro: How to make Ubuntu Linux look like Mac OS X

My first instructable was how to make Vista look like a Mac, but this time it’s Linux. This is what your desktop will look like after you’ve done this.

step 1: If you want, download a dock.

If you don’t want a dock, just skip to step 2.
But if you do, follow this step. Open Ubuntu Software Center / Centre. Search “Docky” in the software center / centre. Then, download the program that matches the screenshot attached to this step, then open it in the “Accessories” category in the “Applications” menu. You can customize this dock by right-clicking the anchor and clicking settings. Add applications to the dock by dragging them into the dock from your desktop / “Applications menu”

step 2: Download the theme package

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/files/mac4lin/ver.1.0/Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0.zip/download . Download it from that link. Once you done that, open the zip folder. Inside the zip folder, there will be a regular folder called “Mac4Lin_install_v1.0” Open the folder and click the file that looks just like the one in the screenshot below, and click “Run in terminal”. It should automatically change the theme and make it look like a Mac. If not, right-click the desktop and click “Change desktop background“. Select the “Themes” tab, and select one of the themes that has “Mac4Lin” in the title.

step 3: The wallpaper

The Mac OS X wallpapers will be included in the package. Go in the folder named “Wallpapers”, open one of the pictures, right click it and select “Set as desktop background”.

step 4: Mac OS X mouse pointers

Again, right-click the desktop and click “Change desktop background”. In the “Theme” tab, click “customize”. Click the “Pointer” tab and click “Mac4Lin cursors_v1.0” You should have the Mac mouse pointers now. If not, restart your computer after you’ve done this

step 5: Last but not least, the Firefox theme

Here’s the link to the only Firefox Mac theme that’s compatible with Linux. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12782/ . So, your computer should look like a Mac now. As I said before, if the cursors don’t work after you’ve selected them, just restart your computer

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