Make Windows look like NextStep or X Window with LiteStep!

Thanks to Chris Pirillo for the tip: A group of programming enthusiastshas released an amazing desktop/shell replacement for Windows 9x and NTcalled LiteStep. Based on the NextStep/OpenStep user interface, and severalclones for Linux, LiteStep provides multiple desktops, an easily configurable user interface, and dozens of themes that can make your systemlook even less like Windows. What's most incredible about this package isits size: The base download is only 700K! And installation couldn't beeasier: Simply unzip the download, copy the directory to any location onyour hard drive and edit one line in system.ini (actually, NT support is alittle more difficult).

LiteStep is currently in beta, but the final version will be free. I'veinstalled it on my Windows 98 partition and it works fine, without any bugsthat I've seen. Still, since this is a shell replacement (it literallyreplaces Explorer.exe) I can only recommend this to power users that arecomfortable really tweaking their system. It's a must-have.

Check it out at the LiteStep Web site