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Fedora 14 Theme Preview

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 15, 2010

“At last week’s design team meeting, we made a decision about
the direction of the overall theme for Fedora 14′s artwork,
which will affect – among other things – the default
wallpaper. We decided on Kyle Baker’s submission, a Blender-created
mockup depicting many lines coming together to form a solid figure,
to serve as the basis of the visual concept of Fedora 14.

“There’s a couple of reasons why this theme relates to Fedora
14:

* First, the codename for Fedora 14 is ‘Laughlin’. This is after
Robert Laughlin, the 1998 Nobel Prize winner in physics for the
fractional quantum Hall effect research he did. Laughlin argues for
a concept called ’emergence’ which states: “The whole is more than
the sum of its parts.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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