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July 26, 2008 9:24 AM PDT

How to make Ubuntu look like Mac OSX

by Dave Rosenberg

Just days after Mark Shuttleworth asked the Linux desktop community make pretty things, Make Tech Easier has come along and created a UI for Ubuntu that looks just like Mac OSX.

Ubuntu or Mac OSX? You decide

Ubuntu or Mac OSX? You decide

(Credit: Make Tech Easier)

It's pretty astounding how quickly this was able to be done. Now if only someone could port all the necessary apps.

Dave Rosenberg dishes up "Software, Interrupted" with nearly 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to multiple start-up IPOs to open-source enterprise software companies. He is co-founder of MuleSource and currently serves as the general manager of Hardy Way. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can contact Dave via e-mail at softwareinterrupted@gmail.com.
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by ryank82 July 26, 2008 10:42 AM PDT
What in the shizbiscuits ???
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by Motyoj July 26, 2008 12:01 PM PDT
Gee, I have used both and this was a plain waste of space....
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by The_Decider July 26, 2008 12:26 PM PDT
I am pretty astounded by your ignorance.

OSX look alike desktops for Linux have been around for a while.
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by ferretboy88 July 27, 2008 7:04 AM PDT
Who want linux to look like a Apple computer? Not I says the cat. I hate the dock with OSX. It is annoying.
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In "Software, Interrupted," Dave Rosenberg discusses disruption in the software market, as well as the products and services that keep business technology norms in perpetual flux.

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