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Engage DeviantArt for Ubuntu 8.10 theme competition  
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Written by mikemaccana the 29 Feb 08 at 01:19. Category: Look and Feel. Related to: Nothing/Others. In development
There is a wide community of online artists capable of creating brilliant, unique artwork.

heading: Get your artwork on 10 million desktops

Ubuntu, the world's most popular Linux distribution, needs a new theme. The winner will appear in the default desktop of Ubuntu 8.10.

We're looking for original wallpapers, that match Ubuntu's color palette. You entry should also include a suggested combination of application, icon, and window themes. These can be existing themes, or your own original works - you only need to submit a wallpaper to win.

Work must be CC licensed, and be openable in either Inkscape or Gimp (rest of criteria continues)

Submit your works to DeviantArt and include the words [Ubuntu810].


Good luck!

Developer comments
At this point in time it is unclear as to whether we can realize something like this. In any case we cannot promise to include anything as default without having already seen it. This might be a good way to find alternative wallpapers to also include on the CD and/or universe as an extra package.

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Don't ever require re-entering passwords for sharing via Samba  
Written by mikemaccana the 29 Feb 08 at 00:38. Category: Internet & Networking. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
When sharing files out via Samba, Ubuntu requires users to re-enter their existing password into smbpasswd.

Currently, when a user changes their password with 'passwd' or a similar tool, their entered password is hashed into md5 or similar and then saved to /etc/shadow.

Its is easy to reconfigure pam so that passwords are also hashed to md4 in /etc/samba/smbpasswd

OS X already does this.

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