Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE): A small and fast DE for Linux
Continuing with our regular review of all Desktop Environments (DEs) possible, and after we talked about Lumina and Draco, today it is the turn of another, a little more unknown, but just as peculiar as the previous ones, whose name is Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE).
Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) as DE, among the many interesting things that it has and can be said about it, is that it is built with Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK), a graphical toolkit under C ++, specifically in some FLTK libraries modified (called extended FLTK or simply eFLTK).
Lumina and Draco: 2 Simple and Light Alternative Desktop Environments
However, before getting into the matter of Equinox or simply EDE, we leave you the link of our previous related publication on Lumina and Draco, where you can meet them, in addition to obtaining the links to other related publications on: Trinity, Moksha, Deepin Desktop Environment or DDE, Pantheon, Budgie Desktop, GNOME, KDE Plasma, XFCE, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE and LXQT.
Equinox: A Small and Fast Desktop Environment
What is Equinox?
According to his Official website, it is described as:
"A small Desktop Environment built to be versatile (responsive), light on resource usage and have a familiar look. That also works on Linux, * BSD, Solaris, Minix, Zaurus and even on XBox."
While, in the section «About ...» (About) from your official Wiki it is described in a more detailed way, as shown below:
"EDE is un Simple and fast desktop environment for * nix-like systems. Which uses the FLTK GUI toolkit and offers a familiar look. In addition, it is designed in accordance with the UNIX philosophy, which means that it offers separate executables for each component, in order to "do a job and do it right." This makes EDE very modular and also easy to modify for the special needs and requirements of any user."
Features
- Light and fast.
- Friendly and familiar interface, as it tends to remind many of the Windows 95 interface.
- Excellent speed or speed of starting and executing applications, in addition to the time required to compile it.
- Ideal for older computers as well as embedded devices, or just on any current everyday computer hardware.
- It uses C ++ features sparingly, allowing for fast startup, low memory usage, and great portability.
Current version and Downloads
Today EDE goes for stable version 2.1, which is available for download, both in your download section of their official site, where in addition, you can see how compile and install; as in his official site at Sourceforge, where you can also see more screenshots their current visual state or graphic development. And in his news section You can see the latest news about it.
It is worth noting, that said DE is out of date or without obvious changes since its latest version that already has more or less 5 years since released. However, in case you want to delve into the current status of it in your version 2.1, you can access the file of changes of the same, by clicking on the following link. And although the same, it is not in the Debian repositories if it can be easily installed installed in Arch, as stated in its excellent Wiki.
Conclusion
We hope this "useful little post" about «Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE)», a little known, small and fast Desktop Environment (DE), built with Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK), a Graphical Toolkit under C ++; is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».
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