Hey guys i am new to linux and i have mandrake 10.1 and loving it. Seem to be getting the just of it. Anyway ive seen some screenshots of people having like hardware/cpu/temp monitors on their desktops and i was wondering what everyone uses or what is best and also is there a forum or site that is dedicated to linux kde desktop or whatever they call it modifying it and making it look cool, i guess you can call it s scheme. Sorry if i sound extremely new. I am learning. Anways i just wanted to know if there are communities dedicated to modifying schemes and making linux look cool. thanks.

http://lynucs.org/ but it is down for a hardware issue at this time.

http://kde-look.org

gkrellm for the monitors

downloaded gkrellm attempted to install it but got stuck on the .po part. therefore i got errors on my attempt to install. i need a complete newbie description on how to get through installation, if someone could get me that it would help, the help file wasnt enough . Sorry for bothering you guys about it. If someone is down to help a newb like me please post a newbies how to install gkrellm. I am on mandrake 10.1. And its only my second day using linux. So far i have successfully installed my nvidia driver and getting my widescreen to work with the help from a few people on this form.

Mandirake has urpmi.

See here
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/urpmi.html