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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
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PCMan presentation at OpenTechSummit 2008 in Taiwan
The presentation of the main developer of LXDE, PCMan, at the OpenTechSummit 2008 in Taiwan is now available on the OpenTechWiki and on Google Video.
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System benchmark tests of LXDE with lmbench suite.
Penk from the LXDE core team in Taiwan has done a lxde system benchmark test using the lmbench suite. lmbench is a suite of simple, portable ANSI/C microbenchmarks for UNIX/POSIX. In general, it measures two key features: latency and bandwidth. It is intended to give system developers insight into basic costs of key operations. (http://freshmeat.net/projects/lmbench/) […]