Recently, while 'doodling' with The Gimp, working on a submission for a logo design challenge - for the Perth Linux Users Group (PLUG), I decided to combine some of the elements into a Wallpaper image.

The attached images include the following elements: A "black swan" logo, representing Perth, that is also a map of Western Australia. The 'web' and connecting dots represent various locations of existing (and potential) PLUG members.

Tux is included for obvious reasons...

PLUG, apart from promoting Linux, also supports free, open source software.... thus the inclusion of various free software logos.

The logos on the far right are 'representative' of just a few of the Linux versions use by members of PLUG. http://plug.org.au

The image may be a little 'busy' for those of you with lots of stuff on your desktop.... I did leave a little bit of room on the left for a few icons :-)

I figured it might make a bit of a conversation starter for those wanting to introduce their friends to Linux and/or PLUG.

I do virtually all of my graphics work (web development, phote editing, etc) using The Gimp on Linx Mint  About the only thing I ever miss from Windows & Photoshop is the True Type Fonts.  I don't know why I've never done it before but a quick google lead me straight to this Ubuntu Blog with some excelllent links and instructions on how to install a variety of interesting fonts.

The above mentioned blog (while still active at the time of this writing) is getting a bit old and doesn't apear to have been updated since some time in 2007...  In short, if you want to install a bunch of fonts on Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.), simply type this in a console (all on one line):