With the recent talk about developing a lightweight KDE desktop, the KWin maintainer, Martin Gräßlin, is talking out to try to clarify whether the compositing window manager is lightweight…
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Are Compositing Window Managers Lightweight?
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KLyDE: A New Lightweight KDE Project Started
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What makes a “lightweight” desktop environment lightweight?
April 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Over the last few days I was wondering what is a “lightweight” desktop. And I must say I couldn’t come up with an answer to that question. I was considering various things like “being memory efficient” which I discarded for obvious reasons. First of all it’s difficult to measure memory usage correctly (I haven’t seen anyone, who provides numbers, doing it correctly, this includes especially Phoronix). And then it’s comparing mostly apples to oranges. Loading a high-resolution wallpaper might make all the difference in the memory usage. Also if desktop environment Foo provides features which are not provided by Bar it’s obvious that Foo uses more memory. But still it’s apples vs oranges. It’s not a comparison on memory, it’s a comparison of features. And of course one might consider the Time-memory-tradeoff.
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Development begins on a lightweight KDE version
April 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
KDE and openSUSE developer Will Stephenson is working on a slimmed down version of KDE that he calls KLyDE, short for K Lightweight Desktop Environment. In a blog entry about the project, Stephenson says that he thinks: “KDE is not intrinsically bloated”, but that most distributions of the open source desktop environment would, by default, install almost all of the software developed within the project. In his opinion, this leads to an overwhelming number of applications, widgets and options being presented to users. With KLyDE, Stephenson wants to create a modular distribution of KDE that can be reduced to the bare bones of what is necessary for a desktop environment.
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Distribution Release: UberStudent 2.0 “Lightweight”
January 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Stephen Ewen has announced the release of UberStudent 2.0 “Lightweight” edition, an Ubuntu-based educational distribution designed for learning and teaching academic computing at the higher education and advanced secondary levels: “I’m very pleased to announce the release of UberStudent 2.0 Lightweight edition. It is designed to reinvigorate older….
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Distribution Release: Lightweight Portable Security 1.3.6
September 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Lightweight Portable Security (LPS) is a Linux live CD with a goal of allowing users to work on a computer without the risk of exposing their credentials and private data to malware, key loggers and other Internet-era ills. A minor maintenance update, version 1.3.6, was released yesterday: “Changes..
Distribution Release: Lightweight Portable Security 1.3.5
June 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Lightweight Portable Security (LPS) version 1.3.5, a Linux live CD with a goal of allowing users to work on a computer without the risk of exposing their credentials and private data to malware, has been released. What’s new? “Updated Firefox to 10.0.5 ESR; updated Firefox extensions HTTPS Everywhere…
Distribution Release: Lightweight Portable Security 1.3.3
April 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A new version of Lightweight Portable Security (LPS), a Linux live CD with strong privacy protection features created by the United States Department of Defence, is out. Version 1.3.3 is a maintenance release, updating Firefox, Flash, Adobe Reader and OpenSSL, and adding Thunderbird and Pidgin to the “deluxe”….
Bodhi Linux, the Beautiful Configurable Lightweight Linux
March 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Bohdi Linux is gorgeous, functional, and very customizable. It just so happens, that's what grumpy old Linux nerds like me think Linux is always supposed to be. Let's take this Linux newcomer for a spin and learn what sets it apart from the zillions of other Linux distributions.
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Fuduntu 2012.1 review – lightweight desktop, heavyweight contender
February 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Now forked from Fedora, Fuduntu has a new release strategy, a subtle facelift and thousands of new packages to choose from…
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Geary: Yorba Working On A New Lightweight Email Client For GNOME
January 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
