The development team at Linux Mint have announced the release of the LXDE version of Mint 12. The Linux Mint Distributions have two major "branches", one derived from Ubuntu which is designated by a ...

So far in this series I have looked at customizing Xfce, KDE, Gnome 3, Cinnamon and MATE. That covers a lot of territory, and there has been some significant overlap in focus, features and ...

Linux For All very well could be a unifying Linux distribution that provides a common computing platform. LFA is a distro developed by Sweden-based software engineer Arne Exton of Exton Linux, the ...

It’s no wonder that the Linux desktop operating system is not attracting hordes of new users from Microsoft Windows and the Mac OS X platforms. Linux has almost too many desktop choices, and most of ...

In today's open source roundup: How to customize the LXDE desktop in Linux. Plus: Calibre 2.46.0 released. And Google is working on split-screen multitasking for Android tablets LXDE is a powerful and ...

Here's how you can install the LXDE desktop environment in Ubuntu 12.10. You can use LXDE to replace Unity.

I've used LXDE for weeks, and I'm still having trouble finding much to say about it. That's not a good sign. I feel a little bad right now. Over the last two weeks I’ve run nothing but LXDE as my ...

Linux is all about choice, and choosing a distribution is only the first step. Linux distros usually have a default desktop environment, but there are a slew of desktop environments available to use.

Between Unity and GNOME 3, there seems to be no end to the controversy surrounding Linux desktop environments this year. Unity, of course, has been raising some eyebrows ever since it debuted in ...