Currently running Enlightenment .16.4. On the Left of the screen we see what looks to be one long terminal window. Closer examination shows that it is actually three stacked windows running in pseudo-transparency mode with different tinting. The top top window is monitoring mail traffic(tinted red), the second (tinted cyan) is watching /var/log/messages, and the third (tinted magenta) is running BitchX and connected to the #e IRC channel. Lower left is the iconbox used for minimized program icons under E. Lower right is a 6 pane virtual desktop w/background image. The device on the far right side is gkrellm, a powerful do-all tool. I am running the Gimp (middle), and Kicq (upper right). The very top bar of the screen is a minimized Xmms player. The background image comes from digitalblasphemy.com.

The second screehshot is of Sam's desktop running the Ximian Gnome version of gnome 1.4. You can see the toolbar at the top loaded with several icons of choice. The lower panel shows the programs that are actively running, along with the useful mini-commander window. You can also see that there are 4 vitrual desktops defined. Sam is also using gkrellm as a constant system monitor, multi-gnome-terminal, and the gaim instant messenger client. He is also using imageMagick for some last minute graphic clean-ups.

Currently running KDE2.1, we can see that Dean's screenshot represents those things that are most important in life :) Working from a high-speed internet connection we see that linux is more then capable of handling 7 simultanious linux ISO downloads a great clip. KDE2 represents a major change for KDE. You can see that with almost no extra effort the newer KDE would be easy for a Microsoft user to pick up. For the record, Dean is also running RedHat and even though you can't see it from the screen he is using the most recent production kernel release. Unfortunately, Dean spends so much time with his computers that he hasn't fixed the wall yet. Poor Kim has to hold it up, otherwise the house would fall down.... :)

Mike is running a very clean gnome 1.4 configuration. He is using a toolbar configured at the top of his screen, very similar to that seen on Macintoish computers. He has a panel running at the bottom of his screen. We can see there that he is using the gaim instant messenger client, running Mozilla and viewing the RRLUG website, and using nautilus to look in the "mike" directory. He also has 4 virtual desktops configured, but is currently using only one. The layout of the desktop is very neat and clean.....

Currently running KDE. Grommet has his favorite program icons displayed in the upper left section of the screen. Across the the top of his screen is the minimized program icons. Currently, he is running the Gimp, Kmail (K-Mailer), and Kvirc (IRC client). Below the Gimp toolkit we see the Licq window (ICQ clone). The bar at the very botton of the screen is the K-Desktop Panel. Here applications can be launched and virtual desktops can be changed.

Matt is using KDE. In the second screenshot we can see the theming power of the desktop. We can see that he is using the Kmail, mail client. He has netwsape running as well. Down at the bottom of the screen we can see the panel at the very bottom and we can see the toolbar (minimized program icons immediately above. In the screenshot on the left we can see that Matt is running the Mandrake version of Linux.

Currently running KDE. Andy's Desktop is simply laid out, but visually interesting. The first glance you may find it difficult to tell whats an icon and what may be hanging on the wall in his computer room. The computer room gets extra points for neatness :)

Currently running KDE. Dave's Desktop is very clean yet shows the configurability of KDE. The look is kinda of MacIntoish like. WE see the major icons that Dave uses laid on the desktop in a very usable fashion. The current desktop has several items in use. First we see Netscape in the foreground and three KFM windows looking at three different directories. One looks like Quake, Hummm where did that idea come from.