LXDE for Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu

[Praveen Kunjapur]

LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a new project aimed to
provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast.

It's 'not' designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and
slim enough, and keep the resource usage low.

From an FAQ:
Why yet another desktop environment? Aren't there already KDE, GNOME,
XFCE, and a lot of well-made DEs? Why reinventing the wheel?
-> 1. Though they are well-made and powerful, they are bloated, and
eat up our RAMs.
2. Not everyone on this earth is rich. There must be a nice
desktop environment for those who can't afford new fancy hardware, and
we have the ability to help them.
3. They are too integrated, and reusing each part of them requires
installing lots of dependencies.
4. If Windows 98 and xp work quite well on old machines, why my
Linux desktop needs a 1.0 GHz CPU + 1GB RAM? We don't believe building
such a usable desktop environment requires that much resource usage,
so we try it ourselves.
5. Because reinventing the wheel is cool, and we love it! (Simply
the best reason)


For LXDE screenshots, please visit this page - http://lxde.org/screenshots.html


To install LXDE on Fedora please look here - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Cwickert/LXDE

For openSUSE - http://lxde.org/wiki/SuSE

For Ubuntu - http://lxde.org/wiki/Ubuntu