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lxde

Review
* Tested:
lxde (metapackage) *
System: Ubuntu
8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Linux Kernel 2.6.27-11-generic
* Hardware: Intel Pentium IV 2.00 GHz


1024 MB RAM ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 256 MB DDR II


Ultra light, suitable for PC antiquated lxde is a younger brother of GNOME and KDE. Of course you ask the purpose of having another DE in addition to the three main ones?

This environment is designed to be lightweight but at the same time beautiful, obviously at the expense of customization.


installing from the Synaptic metapackage lxde find in our session-manager (usually GDM) lxde the new entry. Starting a new session in this so you will definitely surprised.

The DE starts in a few seconds presents a panel (Windows-style) and the usual icons on your Desktop. Nothing more. Nothing awn, no compiz, no plasmoids and varied. Just a Desktop.


start applications we see now the light of our system.


The metapackage installs additional applications extremely light (around a dozen are MB):

• Leafpac -
• GPicView block of text - image viewer
  
• Xarchiver - manager of archives
• PCMan - file manager
• Xscreensaver setup

really a good DE for what you intended to do. We can of course all of our applications running on top resulting in poor performance.

So for those who have special needs as well as being lightweight and simple, and certainly suitable for use on netbooks.