

It's not so surprising that awesome isn't popular, as it's going up against modern desktop environments like GNOME 3, KDE 4 and Unity. The third desktop choice, however, is surprising: the awesome window manager.Īwesome is no stranger to me: I have been using it for three years as the window manager on my main work computer because it's highly configurable and visually minimalistic, so I can focus on my work without any distractions. Two of the new experimental editions are equipped with unsurprising desktop environments: LXDE and E17 (Enlightenment). Sabayon Linux, the easy-to-use Linux distribution built on top of Gentoo Linux, recently announced three new experimental editions that supplement their previous GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and Core releases. This article was contributed by Koen Vervloesem
