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Linux Desktop Environment

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November 03, 2011

Linux Desktop Environment

This is a slide about desktop environments in Linux that i presented in NUMOSS 4th week meeting.

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November 03, 2011
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  1. Today‟s Topics • What is desktop environment? • List of

    desktop environments • Explanation of each • Evolution & demonstration video • Comparison of each environments
  2. the other guys the „sesat‟ guys the big guys These

    Are The Candidate KDE UNITY XFCE LXDE AERO AQUA
  3. Short History of GNOME Started as a response to KDE‟s

    development issue by Miguel de Icaza & Federico Mena Getting mainstream once used in Ubuntu.
  4. The Philosophy Behind KDE Make it easy to use. Beautiful.

    Like windows. So easy a noob girlfriend can use it. KDE
  5. Short History of KDE Founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich

    Started from his frustration. KDE Complains that his girlfriend can‟t use it.
  6. Short History of KDE The “K” used to stand for

    “Kool” Used to be the “IT” Desktop Environment in Linux KDE Used in 42.000 schools in Brazil.
  7. UNITY by Ubuntu “GNOME is being let down by a

    decision-making process that has diminish the scope of GNOME itself.” Mark Shuttleworth
  8. The Philosophy Behind UNITY the usual. easy to use. user

    friendliness. make it looks & works way better than GNOME. UNITY
  9. Short History of UNITY Started after a parting of ways

    with GNOME Born as an idea & philosophy of Ubuntu. UNITY
  10. XFCE LXDE • “Xforms Common Environment • Aims to be

    fast • Started in 1996 by Olivier Fourdan • Example of Distro that use Xfce: • Xubuntu • Fedora Xfce Spin • Zenwalk • Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment • Extremely Fast • Designed with low specification hardware in mind • Has the lowest memory usage • Popularity is increasing
  11. KDE