The Lightweight Ubuntu Minnow
In the sea of today’s market it’s easy to find whale sized operating systems that run poorly on slim hardware but my interest is with the minnows. One lightweight Linux distribution in particular that...
View ArticleXfce Has Polish, Simplicity, and Speed-- Better Than Gnome and KDE?
A few years ago, Xfce had a reputation as a lightweight desktop that made few concessions to inexperienced users. However, the Xfce 4 series of releases have shown steady improvements in usability, and...
View ArticleXfce 4.6.1 Released
The first bugfix-release of xfce 4.6 has been released. We have been able to fix several issues during the past few weeks.
View ArticleOpenBSD: Check out my Xfce desktop
After many months in OpenBSD 4.4 with the project's default window manager, Fvwm, I decided to finally try one of the more popular "desktop environments."
View ArticleGet to know Linux: Xfce 4
Xfce 4 is a fine example of how a full-blown Desktop Environment can be both feature rich as well as light weight. Xfce 4 is based on the GTK+ toolkit which immediately puts in in the same category as...
View ArticleThunar File Manager Review - Good, Lightweight Alternative to Nautilus
Thunar is a lightweight file manager included in the Xfce desktop environment. It has a simpler interface compared to Nautilus, the default file manager which ships with GNOME. So, what are the...
View ArticleCreating Slide Show Backgrounds in XFCE
Continuing in this series of slide show backgrounds, in this article I will explain the process of creating a set of desktop backgrounds that will transition like a slide-show in XFCE. Note that I am...
View ArticleXubuntu 9.10 Review - Unremarkable
Xubuntu is a member of the Ubuntu family, furnished with the lightweight Xfce desktop environment, on top of the standard Ubuntu stack. So, that means that it should be as easy and convenient to use as...
View ArticleGoodbye KDE, Hello XFCE
This past weekend I uninstalled KDE4 from my Desktop. When I first started playing around with Linux, my first desktop was KDE 1.something. Even though it didn’t have the polish of Windows, I could see...
View ArticleDesktops and their performance
Phoronix has used its Test Suite to compare the memory and power consumption of different desktop environments. However, the results should be handled with care.
View ArticleMinimalist Linux desktops
Lightweight desktops have a multitude of uses, on netbooks, for mobile devices, for older hardware, for users with limited requirements of their systems, for connecting to applications in the cloud,...
View ArticleLinux Desktop: Command Line vs. User Interface
In the Linux desktop world, the graphical user interface is here to stay. Old Unix hands may grumble, but the fact remains that, without all the efforts poured into GNOME, KDE, Xfce and others, Linux...
View ArticleFedora 14 review
Fedora 14, aka Laughlin, is the latest update of Fedora, the Red Hat-sponsored, Linux distribution. Like Ubuntu, it is a GNOME-based distribution. However, there are spins for the K Desktop Environment...
View ArticleTorvalds: GNOME over as Linux creator switches to Xfce
Torvalds describes this as "the kind of 'head up the arse' behavior of gnome3" and says he has switched: "I'm using Xfce. I think it's a step down from gnome2, but it's a huge step up from gnome3....
View ArticleEnabling Compiz On Xubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Xubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). Xubuntu uses the...
View ArticleThe Lightweight Ubuntu Minnow
In the sea of today’s market it’s easy to find whale sized operating systems that run poorly on slim hardware but my interest is with the minnows. One lightweight Linux distribution in particular that...
View ArticleXfce Has Polish, Simplicity, and Speed-- Better Than Gnome and KDE?
A few years ago, Xfce had a reputation as a lightweight desktop that made few concessions to inexperienced users. However, the Xfce 4 series of releases have shown steady improvements in usability, and...
View ArticleXfce 4.6.1 Released
The first bugfix-release of xfce 4.6 has been released. We have been able to fix several issues during the past few weeks.
View ArticleOpenBSD: Check out my Xfce desktop
After many months in OpenBSD 4.4 with the project's default window manager, Fvwm, I decided to finally try one of the more popular "desktop environments."
View ArticleGet to know Linux: Xfce 4
Xfce 4 is a fine example of how a full-blown Desktop Environment can be both feature rich as well as light weight. Xfce 4 is based on the GTK+ toolkit which immediately puts in in the same category as...
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