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Issue 202

From Issue #202
February 2011

Mar 31, 2011  By Shawn Powers
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GNOME and KDE may be the heavy-hitters of the desktop world, and although all that power is nice, sometimes it's too bulky. That's where other desktop managers come in.

Resources

AfterStep: www.afterstep.org

Blackbox: blackboxwm.sourceforge.net

CrunchBang Linux: www.crunchbanglinux.org

DWM: dwm.suckless.org

Elive: www.elivecd.org

Enlightenment E17: www.enlightenment.org

Fluxbox: www.fluxbox.org

GNOME: www.gnome.org

IceWM: www.icewm.org

KDE: www.kde.org

Lubuntu: www.lubuntu.net

LXDE: www.lxde.org

Macbuntu: macbuntu.sourceforge.net

Openbox: www.openbox.org

Puppy Linux: www.puppylinux.org

Ratpoison: www.nongnu.org/ratpoison

ROX Desktop: roscidus.com/desktop

Ubuntu: www.ubuntu.com

Window Maker: www.windowmaker.org

XFCE: www.xfce.org

Xubuntu: www.xubuntu.org

Shawn Powers is the Associate Editor for Linux Journal. He's also the Gadget Guy for LinuxJournal.com, and he has an interesting collection of vintage Garfield coffee mugs. Don't let his silly hairdo fool you, he's a pretty ordinary guy and can be reached via e-mail at shawn@linuxjournal.com. Or, swing by the #linuxjournal IRC channel on Freenode.net.

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Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter

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