What Desktop Environments Run on Linux?
Linux with XFree86 supports the KDE, GNOME, and commercial CDE desktop environments, and extended window managers like WindowMaker. Each uses a different set of libraries and provides varying degrees of MS Windows-like look and feel. Information on KDE is available from http://www.kde.org/. The KDE environment uses the Qt graphics libraries, available from Trolltech at http://www.trollTech.com. The desktop uses its own window manager, kwm, and provides a MS Windows-like look and feel. The GNOME home page is http://www.gnome.org. The environment uses the free GTK libraries, available from http://www.gtk.org, and window managers like Enlightenment, http://www.enlightenment.org and SawFish, http://www.sawfish.org/. There’s also a Web page for Red Carpet, a GNOME installation and upgrade utility that functions much like Debian’s apt-get utility with a friendly GUI front end. It’s at http://www.ximian.com/products/redcarpet. The commercial CDE environment uses the Motif libraries and a vari
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