Available Now: GNOME 2.26.3
The GNOME developers, through Lucas Rocha, have announced early this morning in a press release that the last maintenance release of the popular GNOME 2.26 desktop environment is now available for...
View ArticleA lightweight heavyweight
If I had to name the open source projects with the largest development teams, Gnome and KDE would probably come to mind. After that I read on the LXDE devlopment blog that they rank quite high in the...
View ArticleOpenbox: A fun and lightweight window manager
I am always on the lookout for a new way of doing things when it comes to personal computing, and one of the best ways to do so is to experiment with different window managers for Linux.
View ArticleKDE4 overtaking GNOME in terms of usability?
Whereas GNOME so far made sacrifices to flexibility and power in order to improve usability KDE4 is succeeding in having its cake and eating it too. They merge flexibility with ingenious design to...
View Articlecomparing "KDE 4" and "GNOME 3"
There is small trend currently to write a blog entry or article comparing "KDE 4" and "GNOME 3". Now, I'm not involved in the least with the GNOME 3 efforts (no big surprise there, I'm sure) so I can't...
View ArticleReviewed: Gnome 2.28
The Gnome project's latest release, comes just in time to be bolted on to Karmic Koala. But with KDE making big strides forward with each point release of KDE 4, are the Gnome team doing enough to keep...
View ArticleWindow Maker - your NeXT window manager
Window Maker is an X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment. In every way possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the...
View ArticleFlexible for a Fluxbox? – Lightweight X Window Manager
One of the many great things about using UNIX or a UNIX-like operating system is the ability to tailor your environment to your liking. If you want something less resource intensive that offers a...
View ArticleKDE Review: KDE 4.4 Comes in from the Cold
Between radical changes and limited functionality, the KDE 4 series got off to a rough start. However, with each release, KDE 4 has improved steadily and silenced more critics. Now, with the 4.4...
View ArticleLXDE: Smaller, Faster than KDE or GNOME
Three years ago, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) was a faltering project. However, since then, accounts of LXDE's death have proved greatly exaggerated, and the project is once again...
View ArticleE17 review
Enlightenment has been quite interesting to me. It has not even got a beta release so far yet I like to use it. That is because, it does things differently. It is very efficient, keeps the CPU far more...
View ArticleTop 10 FluxBox Themes
FluxBox lightweight window manager based on blackbox window manager, we already reviewed FluxBox and how to install it on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS follow this post.
View ArticleStill more LXDE desktops
I keep running into LXDE derivatives. Not physically of course, but it could be an unintended side effect of being on the lookout for distros to try on the Mebius.
View ArticleA Common Compositing Window Manager Specification
Martin Gräßlin, one of the KDE developers that works on the KWin window manager has been writing a draft specification for what he proposes as a unified specification for compositing window managers.
View ArticleGNOME vs KDE - which is right for you?
Linux User and Developer: "It was quite surprising back then because neither KDE nor GNOME was a commercial project. Both started as open source, and both shared the same goal: to make Linux the best...
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