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Desktop for BSDs and Linux: Lumina 1.0.0 released

Summary

After several years of development, version 1.0.0 of the Lumina desktop environment appeared in 2016. It is based on Qt, lightweight and easy to customise, with a taskbar, application menu, file manager, screenshot tool and simple text editor. Lumina comes from the FreeBSD-based PC-BSD project, but also runs on other BSDs and Linux.

Ideas

  • A desktop can deliberately do without functions that the operating system already provides.
  • Administrators can set default settings for all users.
  • Qt serves as the basis of a cross-platform desktop.

Insights

  • BSD projects develop their own desktops so as not to depend on Linux-specific components.
  • Lightweight desktops extend the usability of older hardware.

Facts

  • Lumina 1.0.0 uses the Qt toolkit.

References

Critique

  • The report does not compare Lumina with established lightweight desktops such as Xfce or LXQt.

Recommendations

  • Choose a lightweight desktop on older or low-powered hardware.
  • With BSD desktops, check which Linux-specific dependencies such as systemd the software requires.

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