Mozilla's Prism and BBC Radio iPlayer streams make a neat combo.
An open source application called DevilsPie allows you to embed a terminal on your desktop. The utility itself is designed to give you control of where applications appear when you open them - perhaps useful for kiosk devices. An Ubuntu Forums post describes how to place a console as your background and how to set its transparency.
The objective is to have a gnome terminal running as the desktop background, right above the actual background image, that won’t be displayed by the statusbar or ticker. It should look something like this:
Full transparency or Semi-transparent with shadows (using Xgl)
Embed the terminal on the desktop [via Lifehacker]
Gentoo, known in the Linux-o-sphere for its customizability has released its 2007 edition. Named ‘Secret Sauce’, the release was delayed awaiting security updates to core packages. The release contains the latest editions of GNOME and KDE as well as a completely rewritten installer.
The Gentoo Release Engineering project is pleased to announce the much-delayed release of Gentoo Linux 2007.0, code named “Secret Sauce”. This release met with several delays due to an abnormally high number of security vulnerabilities in large packages which had to be rebuilt using the newer, secure versions of the packages. There was also a complete resnapshot done about half-way through the release period due to the release taking so long and the packages becoming stale.
Gentoo Linux 2007.0 Released [via Gentoo.org]
