LXDE

LXDE
Original author(s)Hong Jen Yee ("PCMan")
Developer(s)The LXDE Team
Initial release2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Final release
0.10.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 25 February 2021
Repository
Written inC (GTK 2, GTK 3)
Operating systemUnix-like
PlatformLinux, BSD
TypeDesktop environment
LicenseGPL, LGPL
Websitelxde.org

LXDE (abbreviation for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) was a free desktop environment with comparatively low resource requirements. This makes it especially suitable for use on older or resource-constrained personal computers[2] such as netbooks or system on a chip computers.

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