Since 17.10 Ubuntu pairs animal codenames with matching default wallpapers. Wallpapers favor geometric, glowing, and semi-realistic styles; my favorites include Lobster, Minotaur, Groovy Gorilla.

Not quite ready to jump into the Ubuntu 9.10 beta? Want to see what its subtly revised icons, themes, and wallpapers look like? Being an open-source project, you can grab pretty much everything right ...

Are you bored with the look of your desktop? Are the wallpapers that come with your distro enough for you? WallpaperDownloader is a graphical application that will help you customize your desktop and ...

Ubuntu Cinnamon is a brand new “remix” project that incorporates the Cinnamon Desktop Environment into Ubuntu. It’s not an official “flavor” of Ubuntu, but the developers are hoping that — like Ubuntu ...

If you’re using the Unity 7 desktop—now Unity 7.4—you’ll have a better experience than ever before. Those controversial online search results—which some people called “spyware”—are now disabled by ...

Linux is all about choice. It has been since its inception and it remains so to this day. You'll find desktop interfaces that range from old-school to highly modern (and everything in between). If you ...

Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix arrived just in time for the holidays. Its first stable version, released on Dec. 4, is based on Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine. It utilizes Linux Mint’s Cinnamon desktop environment ...

Tired of Windows? Sick of paying big money for Macs? Want a better, more secure desktop? Give Linux a try. Read now Ubuntu is an important operating system on everything from telecom's 5G clouds to ...

There are more interesting Linux desktop distributions to choose from than ever before. However, if you’re looking for major distros with a great deal of support, you’ll want to look at the big four: ...