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28th April 2009 - Link Blog

Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features to the masses. Ubuntu 9.04’s screen-profiles package adds a taskbar to screen and emulates the gnome panel. You can even add a widget showing the cost of your current EC2 session.

Posted 28th April 2009 at 9:52 pm

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