Lightweight Linux Desktop Proves Popular with Netbooks

Courtesy Linux Today  Fri, 08/08/2008 - 08:00

Monkey Bites: "Perhaps the most interesting part of the new gOS is that the distro has adopted the newer, lightweight LXDE (which stands for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), giving the old Enlightenment desktop the heave-ho in the process."


 

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