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A desktop environment is a collection of software designed to give functionality and a certain look and feel to an operating system.. This article applies to operating systems which are capable of running the X Window System, mostly Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, Minix, illumos, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. [1]
Some distributions like Debian tend to separate tools into different packages – usually stable release, development release, documentation and debug. Also counting the source package number varies. For debian and rpm based entries it is just the base to produce binary packages, so the total number of packages is the number of binary packages.
Debian 12 (Bookworm) with GNOME. Debian 12 (Bookworm) was released on 10 June 2023. [68] It is based on Linux kernel v6.1 LTS, and uses GNOME 43 as its default desktop environment, but as usual many other desktops are available, such as KDE Plasma 5.27, LXDE 11, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, and Xfce 4.18. [282]
Debian 7 (Wheezy) was released in May 2013, featuring multiarch support. [69] Debian 8 (Jessie) was released in April 2015, using systemd as the new init system. [70] Debian 9 (Stretch) was released in June 2017, with nftables as a replacement for iptables, support for Flatpak apps, and MariaDB as the replacement for MySQL. [71] [72]
GNOME Shell is the graphical shell of the GNOME desktop environment starting with version 3, [5] which was released on April 6, 2011. It provides basic functions like launching applications and switching between windows .
GNOME (/ɡəˈnoʊm/, /ˈnoʊm/) [6] [7] [8] originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, [9] is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like [10] operating systems.
Xubuntu seeks to provide "a light, stable and configurable desktop environment with conservative workflows" using Xfce components. Xubuntu is intended for both new and experienced Linux users. Rather than explicitly targeting low-powered machines, it attempts to provide "extra responsiveness and speed" on existing hardware.
This allowed CDE to become a completely free and open source desktop environment. Shortly after CDE was released as free software, a Linux live CD was created based on Debian 6 with CDE 2.2.0c pre-installed, called CDEbian. [25] The live CD has since been discontinued.