I know many of you are a bit of a penguin fanciers, and when I saw this I thought I would pass it along in the a vent some are not aware of this function in this alternative OS.
So with all the atttention being paid to touch screen interfaces (for Smartphones, but also Windows 7's apparent native support) don't think Linux is being left behind. Check out this video demoing recent developments.
Thanks to Slashgear for this one, detailing the work of a French development group at ENAC. They have developed native multitouch using the Linux 2.6.30 kernel, and can support swipe, flip, rotate and pinch-resize gestures...
Native Multitouch support on Linux (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTeUbx_nnM4#lq-lq2-hq-vhq)