Tag: LXDE

  • 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 […]

  • LXPanel 0.4.0 beta2 released

    PCMan released LXPanel 0.4.0 beta2. This is the last beta release before LXPanel 0.4 stable release. Please get it heavily tested. http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/LXPanel Major changes: * Fix icon display problems under 64-bit systems. * Fixes to work with minimization animation provided by window manager. * Fix RTL problems of the task list. * Launch console applications […]

  • Statistics about LXDE from Ohloh

    Ohloh is an online service providing some useful information about free and open source projects. Here are some interesting statistics about LXDE. LXDE is: * Mostly written in C * Increasing year-over-year development activity * Large, active development team * Established codebase * Few source code comments * Academic Free License may conflict with GPL […]

  • New download page for LXDE

    Mwei in Taiwan and me (Mario) in Germany have set up a new download page for LXDE on http://download.lxde.org. The page currently features a Live-CD version and USB version of pud, which was put together by Penk, who is also a LXDE contributor from Taiwan. LXDE/PUD GNU/Linux is an Ubuntu-based mini distribution based on LXDE. […]

  • LXDE featured in prestigious magazine 新新聞 The Journalist

    Shen Wanyu from the prestigious magazine ¨新新聞 The Journalist¨ in Taiwan interviewed us some time ago. Result was a six page article ( PDF-Download, 5,9 MB ) about business opportunities for companies with free and open source software. [slideshow id=5] More information on the amazing global media coverage of LXDE in the Media Section of […]

  • LXDE on Twitter

    I have set up an LXDE feed on twitter. Please check it out here: Overview: http://twitter.com/lxde The LXDE RSS-Feed: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/18883012.rss Mario BehlingMario Behling is a German born serial entrepreneur. He founded the lubuntu project, and as the co-founder of FOSSASIA he supports communities to develop open technologies for social change. Mario presently works on SUSI […]