Sven Killig has managed to run LXDE on his Nexus One in a USB host mode. He has made a video showing how all kinds of devices plugged in – including a web cam, keyboards, screens and a display link unit.
Connect USB devices to your Nexus One
Hardware
Nexus One
Micro USB OTG cable (e.g.)
USB Dual Power [...]
LXDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2010. We are looking forward to a great summer with more people joining development. Please propose ideas for the program on our idea page. Students wishing to apply, please check out the Student Check List in the wiki and join us on [...]
Ok people… openSUSE 11.3 Milestone2 has been released and quite soon we will have the Milestone3.
So now, after lot’s of promises, what is the status now?
IT’S DONE!
yes… it’s done… openSUSE 11.3 allow now to install LXDE directly from installation DVD or Net install. I’m sure all of you reading this post wants to try it, [...]
LXDE is applying as a project for the Google Summer of Code 2010. For students it is a good way to get deeper involved into Free and Open Source Software and LXDE specifically. During the summer students have the chance to code on LXDE and get paid by Google.
Some other projects usually also offer student [...]
Faster and easier IT tools can benefit a lot of people all over the world. A goal that LXDE shares with One Laptop per Child. To bring LXDE on the XO-laptop can help to turn the XO from a tool for children only into a device for the whole family.
OLPC Afghanistan
This year in April I [...]
After our meet up at the Google Summit in Mountain View last week Yaakov Nemoy now published a simple Hacking Guide for LXDE/Fedora on the XO of the OLPC project. While Christoph Wickert and the LXDE team is already working on a fully supported version for the XO, this is “a bunch of quick and [...]
The “Software Liberty Asscocation of Taiwan” (SLAT) is featuring the LXDE community during ICOS 2009 – International Conference on Open Source in Taipei in September 2009.
Taiwan is the place of LXDE’s birth. And most of the LXDE core developers are based in Taiwan. We are inviting LXDE developers to this event, which is co-organized [...]
There is a new video on LXPanel 0.5.2 on Youtube. It introduces the new functions of LXPanel:
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOKzwGg6Zqs
Maces Blog: http://www.maces-net.de/2009/08/06/new-video-on-lxpanel-0-5-2/
The PCLinuxOS Team has released a PCLinuxOS version with LXDE as the default Desktop, called PCLXDE:
PCLXDE 2009.4 is a minimal self-booting/installable Linux Live CD that features the LXDE desktop environment along with a small suite of lightweight applications designed for use on low end computer systems. It is small, fast and fun. Designed for P [...]
I just found this factoid on Ohloh and I am amazed to read this:
LXDE: Very large, active development team
Over the past twelve months, 26 developers contributed new code to LXDE. This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh. For this [...]
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