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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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LXDE with Sidux – Installation how to
My friend Kevin, who is based in Ho-Chi-Minh-City (former Saigon), has written a nice article about his experience with LXDE and Sidux on his blog Saigonnezumi.com. The post can be used as a how to for anyone who wants to try out LXDE on Sidux. LXDE has the looks of KDE, the feel of Gnome […]
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LXDE at the 25C3 Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin
Members of the LXDE community are currently meeting at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The 25C3 is one of the biggest hacker and developer events in the world with more than 3000 hackers gathering for 4 days just after Christmas. Mario Behling, Maces, alx It is exciting to be here and see that many […]
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Launchpad or Transifex? What is the best system for LXDE?
With the increase of LXDE components and the ongoing development of LXDE the need for a better translation system has increased. We discussed different option in this forum here: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=35 We have set up a vote for you to cast which system and solution you prefer. Please vote in this forum: http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=163 There are three […]