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Noticed an upgrade to Openbox 3.4 in a yum update recently and I went to checkout the website and found a mountain of new features. For anyone who finds Metacity a little too simple and/or slow, Openbox makes a great configurable clean replacement. Same goes with KDE actually, and as of this release you should see Gnome/Openbox and KDE/Openbox listed in your gdm sessions menu, which makes the switch that much easier.

Facebook's tapped into something, not something they invented but definitely something they've honed quite well. For those who haven't used it, Facebook is a social networking site originally aimed toward college students but now available to the general public as well. It essentially allows you to share your interests, thoughts, photos, blog entries, and what you're up to with friends. Meanwhile they make it extremely easy to locate and connect with people from your past and present, high school, home town, or with similar interests. The most interesting feature in my opinion is the feed you're greeted with every time you login listing what your contacts have been up to, changed, or added lately.

Unfortunately Facebook sucks for some fundamental reasons.

Firstly it tries to be everything. We already have email, dozens of instant messaging networks, status messages, online calendars, sites for blogging, and sites for sharing photos. While it's great to have these things all under one roof and that's surely one of the reasons for Facebook's viral success, we can't ignore that we already have drastically more mature and robust solutions for most all of these tasks.

Fedora Core 6, Gnome 2.16, Openbox (although you can't really see it), Snowish icons, and Clearlooks-quicksilver GTK theme, which I can't seem to find a link to.