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I have been testing Gnome Shell recently, and for those of you who do not know:

The GNOME Shell redefines user interactions with the GNOME desktop. In particular, it offers new paradigms for launching applications, accessing documents, and organizing open windows in GNOME. Later, it will introduce a new applets eco-system and offer new solutions for other desktop features, such as notifications and contacts management. The GNOME Shell is intended to replace functions handled by the GNOME Panel and by the window manager in previous versions of GNOME. The GNOME Shell has rich visual effects enabled by new graphical technologies.

Source: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell

I’ve been enjoying it. It is much more.. refined than “normal” GNOME. The only things I miss are the Preferences and Administration menus, but those can be accessed by typing in their relative names in the “Find” field on Overlay.

I took a few screenshots of my desktop, the first is out of overlay, the second is in overlay (images are linked a larger sized image):

Gnome Shell Out Of Overlay

Gnome Shell In Overlay

Since this is a apparent meme on Planet Ubuntu, I thought I would join in with the results from my server running Debian Lenny (my desktop runs ArchLinux):

collin@server:~# vrms

No non-free or contrib packages installed on server!  rms would be proud.

Yay, I feel special now.