The GNOME Foundation (gnome.org) released GNOME version 2.0 last summer and version 2.2 in January 2003. These releases mark a move toward a standardized desktop and a commitment to scheduled releases ...

Fans of Linux in general and Linux Mint in particular are no doubt already familiar with MATE, the GNOME 2-like desktop that was first included in Linux Mint 12 as an alternative for users wary of ...

Fences 2 is well worth the money: It makes the desktop useful again. I have no icons on my desktop. I have two wide-screen monitors totaling almost 4,000 horizontal pixels, and not a single icon— ...

So far in this series I have looked at Xfce (lightweight but full-featured), KDE (one view of the future of desktops, extremely configurable), Gnome 3 (a very different view of the future, very ...

The Studio 2 desktop PC was the Surface family member ripest for an update, but, surprisingly, it received no love at this week's Surface update. What gives? I’m the deputy managing editor of the ...

The KDE developers have released a new version of their popular desktop environment Plasma on time in the usual six-month cycle. Following the major switch to Qt6 and the improved remote desktop, the ...