What is Minimalist Design?

Minimalist design has been described as design at its most basic, stripped of superfluous elements, colors, shapes and textures.

Its purpose is to make the content stand out and be the focal point. From a visual standpoint, minimalist design is meant to be calming and to bring the mind down to the basics.

The design movement began in Switzerland and was then applied to a variety of media: graphic design , architecture, music, literature, painting and, more recently, websesign.

Although minimalist design took off decades ado, the early days of the Internet did not show it. Even without the rotating logos, marquees and bright colors, websites designs were cluttered and overbearing.

We’ll go over the basic principles of minimalist design. But even if you choose not to pursue a minimalist aesthetic, the lessons here can help you simplify your design, whatever your style.
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Lamp (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is a  good choiice for web developers who are using Linux. In order to get LAMP ready on Linux, you need to do the following:

First, Install Lamp using the following command in terminal ” sudo apt-get install lamp-server^“. You will be promoted to to change the password for the MySQL database root user. To test if the Apache is working perfectly, open new webpage and type ” http://localhost“. If you see the message “It works” on your webpage, that’s mean everything is going fine.
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By default all drop down menus don’t have icons, so this is a quick way to enable icons in menus. sometime icons become handy to easily identify menu entry choice.

Note: maybe some of drop down menu don’t include icons according to gtk icons availability.

Start Terminal session then type,

With many of Ubuntu users who downloaded fresh Natty or upgrade from Ubuntu 11.04 Beta, they have faced a problem that Bluetooth functionality has been disabled and no longer working.

To solve this problem, open the terminal and type this two commands:

• sudo killall bluetoothd
• sudo bluetoothd

After doing this, everything will going fine.

Resource: Ubuntu forums.

In the meeting of Ubuntu Developers, Canonical has announced they are targeting 200 million user within the next 4 years. Although Canonical didn’t announce the actual number users for Ubuntu, some resources indicates that the actual users are 12 million.

Canonical also announced that it will cooperate with Lenovo which is the 4th largest PC manufacturers to provide full compatibility to its hardware. Recently, Ubuntu provide full compatibility for 30 types of Lenovo hardware.

Is it possible that Lenovo reach this target? Who knows.