Although not the subject of this tutorial GNU / Linux Let's talk briefly about desktop environments.
Desktop is the shell that offers visual use with windows, panels, icons to use and manage our system. These graphical shells consist of Window manager and Desktop Environment on X Window layer.
Commonly used desktop environments
can be listed as.
Gnome -GNU Network Object Model Environment-
GNOME -GNU Network Object Model Environment-It is an open source free desktop environment. GNOME, which is being developed by the GNOME Project community affiliated with the GNU Project, can be installed on many Unix and BSD based operating systems.
The GNOME project provides an easy and impressive desktop environment for users and a development platform to develop applications and integrate them with the rest of the desktop.
| Term | GNOME -GNU Network Object Model Environment- |
|---|---|
| Kind | Desktop environment |
| First Release | March 3, 1999 |
| programming language | C, XML, C++, C#, HTML, Vala, Python, JavaScript, CSS… |
| Developer(s) | GNOME developers |
| License | GPL – LGPL |
| Official site | https://gnome.org |
| code repository | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME |
| Wiki | https://wiki.gnome.org |
KDE -K Desktop Environment –
KDE provides a modern desktop environment for UNIX and compatible systems. With a free UNIX player such as GNU/Linux, UNIX/KDE provides a completely free and open computing platform.
| Term | KDE (K Desktop Environment) |
|---|---|
| Home | |
| Kind | Desktop environment |
| Developer(s) | KDE Development Team |
| License | GPL and others |
| Official site | kde.org |
| Wiki | wiki.kde.org / community.kde.org |
Cinnamon
It is a free and open source desktop environment for the X Window System. Cinnamon is the main desktop environment of the Linux Mint distribution and is also available as an optional desktop for other Linux distributions and other Unix-like operating systems.
| Term | It is a free and open source desktop environment. |
|---|---|
| First Release | 2011 |
| Kind | Desktop environment |
| programming language | C (GTK), JavaScript, Python |
| Developer(s) | Linux Mint developers |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Official site | cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com |
| code repository | github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon |
Xfce (XForms Common Environment)
Xfce, is a lightweight, easy-to-use desktop environment compatible with GNU/Linux and Unix-like systems, which is simple yet provides the functionality expected of a modern desktop environment.
| Term | XForms Common Environment |
|---|---|
| OS | Unix-like |
| Kind | Desktop environment |
| First Release | 1997 |
| Developer(s) | Free software community |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| official site | www.xfce.org |
In these tutorials, we will talk about using “Terminal -Console/Teminal-” and GNU/Linux shell -BaSH shell- instead of graphical interface.
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