Month: February 2009

  • LXDE running on Android phones

    LXDE has been ported to Googles Android by ghostwalker of androidfanatic.com. Thank you very much! We are pretty excited about running X-Windows and more specifically the LXDE Desktop GUI on mobile phones like the  G-1. While IceWM, performance-wise runs the fastest – LXDE is also pretty good, and just plain ‘prettier! (http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/com…) Detailed installation instructions […]

  • Wallpapers for LXDE

    You are a designer and have ideas for beautiful wallpapers? Take them into reality and post them in our forum to get feedback and have others using them: http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=261 Standard LXDE desktop wallpaper Mario BehlingMario Behling is a German born serial entrepreneur. He founded the lubuntu project, and as the co-founder of FOSSASIA he supports […]

  • LXDE on ARM architectures: Sharp Zaurus

    The LXDE project is pushing its way onto the market for mobile devices and ARM architectures. LXDE is now available for Sharp Zaurus in a specialized Ubuntu Linux distribution (Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron) called “Zubuntu”. Zubuntu is developed by hacker Omegamoon and can be booted (mostly) from flash memory. The Zubuntu project was inspired by […]

  • Summer of Code: Meet up with Leslie Hawthorn Community Manager of Google

    The strength of an Open Source FOSS project comes from its community. Google has realized that and supports the community with its Summer of Code programme. I had the chance to meet up at an earlybird breakfast in Brussels with Leslie Hawthorn and some folks from Google like Peter Anvin to discuss some ideas of […]

  • LXDE Talk at FOSDEM 2009

    We had a fantastic time at FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels. After the Chaos Communication Congress a few weeks ago, we have again seen many people already using LXDE. Christoph Wickert (Fedora)  and I had a lightning talk where we gave an overview of LXDE and the expanding community in front of about 500 people. Special […]

  • Lubuntu: LXDE Meet up with Mark Shuttleworth in Berlin

    Mario, when will you release Lubuntu? Many people ask this question recently. Actually, we do not have an official distribution named Lubuntu… yet. So time to get in touch with the Ubuntu community and Mark Shuttleworth about a cooperation. I finally met up with Mark today for breakfast here in Berlin and talked with him about […]