Eerie’s ‘i’ and last ‘e’ – how does the net work?

The 'i' and last 'e' in Eerie stand for internet experiment. Yes, "eerie" as a project has several faces. It's primarily about the creation of a new light-weight distribution (which alone involves a lot of things to consider - and to write about ;)). But to be honest, I had never blogged before nor did …

Linux desktop comparison summary – 20 solutions for your desktop!

Our first Linux desktop comparison is over. I took a look at quite some projects during the last weeks. 20 of those (including modes that are behaving differently) proved to be full DEs which should be covered by a broadscale test. Some others, like UDE for example, had to be skipped. While it does have …

Linux desktop comparison (pt. 5): Exotic DEs

This is the final part of our desktop testing series. We'll deal with the rather exotic desktop environments in this entry. Most of them are built on top of some unusual toolkits. These are: OpenCDE (Motif) CDE (Motif) Equinox Desktop Environment 2 (FLTK) Étoilé (GNUStep) Mezzo (?) For test criteria and the basic Arch system, …

Linux desktop comparison (pt. 4): Less common GTK+ DEs

This is part 4 of our desktop testing series. We'll deal with some of the less common desktop environments in this entry which by chance are are all GTK+ based. These are: GNOME 2 ROX Enlightenment E17 Sugar For test criteria and the basic Arch system, please refer to the first part of this test. …