Trinity and Moksha: 2 Interesting Alternative Desktop Environments

Trinity and Moksha: 2 Interesting Alternative Desktop Environments

Trinity and Moksha: 2 Interesting Alternative Desktop Environments

Continuing our series of articles on Desktop Environments existing on our multiple and growing GNU / Linux Distros, now it's the turn of 2 a little unknown or popular, called Trinity y moksha.

Both are derivations (fork) of old Desktop Environments that have been modernized to continue operating on some GNU / Linux Distros or several, especially in order to take advantage of its potentialities, in terms of low resource consumption (RAM, CPU).

Trinity and Moksha: Introduction

As we have seen, the possibilities are wide with respect to using 1 or more Desktop Environments on our GNU / Linux Operating Systems. So far, we have explored the best known or universal (GNOME, KDE Plasma, XFCE, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE y LXQT, and others less known, but just as modern and functional (Deepin, Pantheon y Budgie).

And although, counting these Previous 10 Desktop EnvironmentsPlus Trinity y moksha, there are still some other equally interesting or striking to know, investigate and / or try.

Trinity and Moksha: Content

Trinity and Moksha: Desktop Environments

Trinity Desktop Environment

El Desktop Environment called Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) according to its Developers, it was created and is maintained with the main objective of preserving the functionalities and the visual aspect of the old free and open Operating Systems.

Objectives

Specifically, TDE seeks to offer and / or provide a Desktop Environment:

  • Flexible and highly customizable.
  • Visually attractive.
  • Equipped with a suitable collection of stationery that is still compatible with old hardware.
  • It is responsive to old hardware and compatible with new hardware.
  • That it supports 3D acceleration, but does not require it to work, with the freedesktop.org and Linux file system hierarchy standards, and with other desktop environments.
  • Capable of delivering maximum HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) efficiency in a mouse / keyboard environment.

Key features

Among the characteristics that make the TDE can be mentioned:

  • A traditional panel, a taskbar, a task manager, and quick launch of applications.
  • A repository of compatible software applications, including various text editors, a file manager, image viewers, office applications, a file manager, and the original and improved Amarok classical music player.
  • Revamped login and desktop lockout dialogs.
  • A dedicated DBUS notification client revamped to improve integration with common applications such as Firefox and NetworkManager (no need for HAL).

History

TDE started as a continuation of K Desktop Environment (KDE) version 3. The name of Trinity (Trinidad, in Spanish) in part, because the word means "Three" and TDE was a continuation of KDE 3. TDE is now your own project Desktop Environment for computers. The project TDE was founded and continues to be run by Timothy Pearson who is a skilled experienced software developer, who was once the coordinator of KDE 3.x from previous versions of Kubuntu.

TDE does not come in a specific Distro like Desktop Environment default, but may be available for Distros as Altlinux, Exe GNU / Linux, PCLinuxOS, Q4OS, Slack and some versions of Ubuntu. Also, it is currently going for version R14.0.7 which was released on 30/12/2019. For more information on TDE you can visit your Official website In the following link.

Moksha Desktop

El Desktop Environment called Moksha Desktop (M.D.) According to its Developers, it was created and is maintained with the main objective of preserving the functionalities and the visual aspect of the Windows Manager Enlightenment 17 (E17) which is often considered a Desktop Environment. In such a way, to adapt it, improve it, renew it and make it compatible with the features of future versions of Enlightenment, as well as eliminating from it, half-finished or broken things that the E17 contained.

Objectives

Specifically, MD seeks to offer and / or provide a Desktop Environment:

  • Let it be a continuation of E17 with the changes, corrections and improvements made on Bodhi GNU / Linux which is the Distro where it has been developed.
  • That includes some of the best, modern, and most useful features of the E18 and E19. Also, some new things that the development team thinks are useful to improve the end-user experience.
  • Be more stable than later versions of Enlightenment and consume less RAM to function.
  • Be a Desktop compatible with all Linux-based platforms, beyond its mother Distro, Bodhi GNU / Linux.

However, MD for now it is only easily supported in DEBIAN 8 (Jessie), as long as its developer does not manage to modernize its package to make it compatible with more modern versions of DEBIAN GNU / Linux. For more information about MD you can visit his Official website In the following link.

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Conclusion

We hope this "useful little post" about «Trinity y Moksha», 2 «Entornos de Escritorio» alternative and interesting, that in their «Distros GNU/Linux» native or ported to others better known as «DEBIAN GNU/Linux» can be of great help in some cases, especially in the field of resource consumption savings, 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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