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LXDE Translation Project
We are starting the LXDE translation project. Please join the LXDE translation team now! Help translating LXDE into different languages. Join us improving the documentation and resources around LXDE. It is the aim of the LXDE team and community to give access to information to people with less powerful hardware. Many did not have the […]
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Community First!
The current release of MySQL shows the problems free and open source software projects face that put business first and community second. Michael “Monty” Widenius critizes in his Blog the current developement model of MySQL and recommends not to use the current release 5.1 of the database system. The reason I am asking you to […]
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LXDE Meeting in Shenzhen – Video
There is now a video online of the gathering with the Shenzhen Linux User Group and our discussion about Open Source and LXDE provided from Zhang Le. Thanks a lot! Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9072456269136280272 Avi-Link: http://www.gentoo-cn.org/~zhangle/szlug/mario_lxde_20081122.avi Mario BehlingMario Behling is a German born serial entrepreneur. He founded the lubuntu project, and as the co-founder of FOSSASIA […]
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Linux User Group Shenzhen (Szlug) Meeting and Presentation of LXDE
I had a fantastic meeting with the Linux User Group in Shenzhen, which is just on the border to Hong Kong and seat of some famous technology companies such as Huawei and Tencent (QQ). The Shenzhen Linux User Group (Szlug) is one of the biggest Linux User Groups in Asia and has currently 480 members. […]
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Fedora 10 with LXDE
We are excited to see another distribution including LXDE. Fedora offers LXDE in its new versions arriving November 26 25, 2008. This release of Fedora comes with an additional desktop environment named LXDE. LXDE is a new project that provides a lightweight, fast desktop environment designed to be usable and slim enough to keep resource […]
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Netbooks shipping with LXDE on Mandriva
I met up with the folks from Mandriva in Paris a few days ago and it was exciting to hear some great news. They announced already that they include LXDE in Mandriva 2009. Mandriva is also offering customized Linux versions for netbook manufacturers and has started to ship with LXDE on netbooks in large numbers […]
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Founding of the Freedesktop Group in Beijing
I was honered to be a guest at the founding meeting of the Freedesktop Group Bejing (which is part of the College Open Source Society) last Saturday, November 8, 2008 at Tsinghua University and to introduce LXDE to some of the brightest IT students from universities in Beijing. [singlepic=27,400,,,] Since my arrival in Beijing I […]
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GPicView video of the standard picture viewer of LXDE
This video by maces presents GPicView the standard picture viewer developed by the LXDE team. Installation in Debian, Ubuntu and other distributions: pacman -Sy gpicview Features Extremely lightweight and fast with low memory usage Very suitable for default image viewer of desktop system Simple and intuitive interface Minimal lib dependency: Only pure GTK+ is used […]
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LXTask video of the standard LXDE task manager and system monitor
Another video of an LXDE component by Maces. LXTask is the standard task manager and system monitor of LXDE. It starts via Ctrl+Alt+Del and is extremely lightweight. YouTube: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruk6rjAIyRQ Maces Blogpost with German Video: http://www.maces-net.de/2008/10/07/kurzvorstellung-lxtask/ LXTask auf Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?gro… LXTask in the LXDE Wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTask Mario BehlingMario Behling is a German born serial entrepreneur. He […]