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A Look At the Lightweight Equinox Desktop Environment

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the feature-rich-is-still-important dept.

Linux.com (who share Slashdot's corporate overlords) takes a look at the Equinox Desktop Environment and why, even though it is extremely lightweight, it may still lack the ability for widespread appeal. "the Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) is the fastest desktop environment I know of -- but its lack of standards support and a few missing features may be troubling to some users. [...] EDE feels as light as a window manager but also offers the features mentioned above. The speed advantage of EDE most likely lies in its foundation, a modified version of the Fast Light ToolKit GUI library. EDE started almost instantly on the 500MHz machine I tested it on, whereas the other environments needed at least a few seconds. EDE provides a coherent and simple interface that requires little effort to learn."

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  1. yet another by nawcom · · Score: 3, Informative
    I wonder why this one gets its promotion from linux.com... Here's another one (that's at least new to me) http://lxde.sourceforge.net/

    Same concept, but it sounds like its at a slightly more stable state. Check it out as I just did.

  2. Re:I thought ... by palegray.net · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nonsense. Everyone knows you can view live ASCII video. Bash 4 life.

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    512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
  3. Re:xfce by DeathCarrot · · Score: 3, Informative
    Yeah if it's a lightweight DE you're looking for, Xfce is pretty much the only logical choice. I also switched from Fluxbox to Xfce and couldn't believe how much lighter and faster this thing is than Gnome or KDE given it has all the same core functionality.

    The number of tray plugins are sortof limited, but all it needs is more developers willing to help out with that end. I've never had this problem. There's quite a nice list here, but if that's not enough, you can always use Gnome plugins with it. Granted, a lot of people (including myself) refuse to install the base gnome or kde libs, in which case that wouldn't be viable.
  4. Re:xfce by Paaskonijn · · Score: 3, Informative
    You should be able to add just about any GNOME panel plugin with XfApplet.

    Quick Launch seems to do pretty much the same thing as Xfce's Quicklauncher plugin though, so you might want to give that a try first.

  5. Re:I thought ... by lysse · · Score: 3, Informative

    youtube-dl -b -o funny-youtube-link.flv [URL]
    mplayer -ao alsa -vo fbdev funny-youtube-link.flv