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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. More information on the amazing global media coverage of LXDE in the Media Section of our wiki.
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New Modification of the forum
Recently, maces recommended us to install a mod that is very useful when you have a problem to ask in the forums. When you find the best answer of all replies, you can check to the reply which the button is on the top-right side of the post. However, though this mod is activated, we…
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Translate *.po files with Poedit
Many of you wanted to help translating LXDE but only a few know how to do this, until now. Here is a description on how to help translating the components of LXDE. You can also view this article in the Wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/How_to_translate_LXDE_components (generally) http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Translate_*.po_files_with_Poedit (Poedit specific)
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TwoThree new languages of the wiki.Just now, Mario said that we have more people joining our translation project and asked me to set up 2 more languages of our wiki: Indonesian and Lithuanian. And currently, we have 17 languages of the wiki in total. But we have to work harder because Wikipedia has 265 different languages. Update: Another request –…
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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…