After receiving an email from a listener named Carl Davis who wrote to me about eye candy in Linux and also mentioned AWN, I decided to give that particular piece of software another try. I had taken it for a short spin some time ago, but never used it much since it was still very buggy and crashed a bit too often for daily use. I must say the little thing has improved a lot! There are still some minor bugs, but it seems to run very stable from what I see. Most importantly: I looks absolutely gorgous! Especially in 3D mode with the glassy reflections. This proves once again that you don’t need a Mac if you want a gorgous looking desktop. The speed with which the open source community comes out with this stuff and continually improves it never ceases to amaze me. I don’t really care if it’s copied from the Mac either, as long as it works and I can get it for free.