We wonder what the crew from the Enterprise would think of 21st century Earthlings giving up Gnome, KDE, or Xfice for the official desktop environment of Star Fleet.
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McGovern will have been in the position well over five years by the time a replacement is found and put in place -- the longest tenure of any executive director in the organization's history.
Vivaldi's 5.0 release might be seen as the release of two browsers -- one finely tuned for the desktop, and one designed for a wide range of Android devices.
System76's CEO told FOSS Force that the company is in the early stages of putting a desktop project together, and cited 2023 as a potential release date.
Project Trident's default Lumina desktop environment is unaffected by this development and will continue to be developed and maintained for Linux and BSD users.
Here you go, it's both a bit of a tutorial on how to use Xfce's panel applets, as well as something of an in-depth look at five of our writer's favorites.
Although changes made to Linux desktop environments over the last decade have given innovation a bad name, some, like KDE's Activities, show promise.
The user revolts against KDE 4, GNOME 3, and Unity have left desktop Linux developers with a fear of innovation, exactly when that's what's needed.
Eight years after the Gnome 2 desktop was replaced by Gnome 3, the older desktop environment remains one of the most used interfaces on desktop Linux.
The debate about whether KDE or GNOME is the better desktop environment for desktop Linux has been going on since before beginning of the 21st century. As with everything else in open source, it's really all just a matter of choice and what works better for you.
With all the changes happening at Canonical, you might wonder what this means for the future of desktop Ubuntu, besides the return to the GNOME desktop.
There hasn’t been this much news about a single Linux distro in like forever. Well, maybe when Caldera, operating under the name SCO, sued IBM for a cool billion, but other than that…nada. One thing’s for sure, the announcements that have been coming out of the Isle of Man for the last couple of weeks mean that Canonical has forever changed its course.
Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux