Linux Mint came into popularity when the Ubuntu people ditched GNOME for Unity. Mint community offered MATE which was a smoother, lightweight continuation of the GNOMEDesktop environmentand that caught on really quickly within the community. Mint is built to be extremely userfriendly, so much so,...
Cinnamon initially started as a fork of the GNOME Shell, with the aim to provide a desktop environment for Linux Mint by Mint developers, but due to a different GUI than GNOME, many core GNOME applications were rewritten to suit this Environment. The cinnamon project started in 2011 with the...
well-designed software should always run on any hardware. There are manyLinux Distributionsspecifically designed for older hardware and PCs. And you can quickly revive them with the help of these Linux operating systems. In this post, we highlight ten such Linux distributions that are...
The minimalist LXQt environment is also very efficient but if you have a high-performance machine, you may prefer a desktop that's visually richer like GNOME or KDE. ^ Back to the top Best for Ubuntu LTS (Image credit: LXLE) 6. LXLE Excellent lightweight Linux distro for older machines...
1.Mabox Linux Mabox draws its inspiration from Arch Linux but is originally based on Manjaro. It offers a variety of features that make it unique, including a new package manager. The distribution comes with its own custom desktop environment, MaboxDE, based on the Openbox window manager. ...
It tries to cater to a wide range of users, and hence offers multiple versions, all of which are lightweight. The five versions are Standard, Core, Live, Gnome and Openbox. The standard one used the XFCE desktop environment; Core comes with only a command line interface, the Live version...
geditwhich comes with GNOME and has many of these IDE features (see, for example,this blog entry), Geany‑ really fast, depends only on GTK, and with even more features including code folding. These would be lightweight IDEs, as opposed to heavyweights likeAnjuta,KDevelop,EclipseorNetBeans...
Thegedit text editoris the default text editor for the GNOME desktop environment and is used by millions of people on various Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Fedora. It is a part of the core GNOME applications and is intended to be a lightweight, general-purpose text editor. However,...
NOT full Gnome like Galeon, NOT full KDE/Qt like Konqueror. You don't need to take my word for it -- just try Skipstone on the small machine of your choice. I discovered it when I moved my wife's 32MB Pentium 133 laptop from Windows 95 to Linux ...
Slitaz GNU/Linuxis a lightweight distribution especially created for old hardware and for use as a Live CD or Live USB.SliTazstands for “Simple, Light, Incredible, Temporary Autonomous Zone“. With such a loaded acronym, it’s hard not to think of a snake slithering as the name SliTaz do...