[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Although it won’t help Linux run Windows-specific
software applications, this easy hack produces an Ubuntu desktop
that looks and feels a lot like Windows 7. It’s particularly
suitable for reviving older PCs or laptops on which the main
activities will be web-browsing, email, document writing, and
streaming music and videos from Pandora, YouTube, and elsewhere on
the web.“The process described below installs a Windows 7-like GNOME
theme on an otherwise standard Ubuntu 10.04 installation. But
before going through the installation procedure, let’s have a look
at the system’s desktop before and after the modification.“As seen in the following screenshot, the standard Ubuntu
desktop has control “panels” at both the top and bottom of the
screen.”