Here's how you can install the LXDE desktop environment in Ubuntu 12.10. You can use LXDE to replace Unity.

So far in this series I have looked at customizing Xfce, KDE, Gnome 3, Cinnamon and MATE. That covers a lot of territory, and there has been some significant overlap in focus, features and ...

Linux For All very well could be a unifying Linux distribution that provides a common computing platform. LFA is a distro developed by Sweden-based software engineer Arne Exton of Exton Linux, the ...

It’s no wonder that the Linux desktop operating system is not attracting hordes of new users from Microsoft Windows and the Mac OS X platforms. Linux has almost too many desktop choices, and most of ...

If you use Ubuntu, you’re almost certainly familiar with GNOME, the default desktop environment that comes with it. Unity is still based on GNOME, so it won’t affect the use of any GNOME-based ...

In today's open source roundup: How to customize the LXDE desktop in Linux. Plus: Calibre 2.46.0 released. And Google is working on split-screen multitasking for Android tablets LXDE is a powerful and ...

I've used LXDE for weeks, and I'm still having trouble finding much to say about it. That's not a good sign. I feel a little bad right now. Over the last two weeks I’ve run nothing but LXDE as my ...