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Lightweight Equinox Desktop Environment Needs Polish

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 26, 2008

“Desktop environments like KDE and GNOME offer a popular
interface to computing. Unfortunately they are also often heavy on
resource usage. By contrast, the Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE)
is the fastest desktop environment I know of–but its lack of
standards support and a few missing features may be troubling to
some users.

“The boundaries between desktop environments and window managers
are often blurred. No window manager by itself offers the things
included in a run-of-the-mill point-and-click environment: a
desktop with icons, a task bar that shows the running programs and
a system tray…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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