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Linux Essentials - Second Edition
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Chances are that your first experience with a working Linux system will involve a desktop environment. A desktop environment is a set of programs that control the screen, and it also provides small utility programs to perform tasks such as managing files. Linux provides several desktop environment options, so if you don’t like one, you can choose another. In addition to presenting information on available desktop environments, this section describes a few tools that you can use to launch programs and manage files.
Depending on your Linux distribution and installation options, chances are good that your system has more than one desktop environment available. The most common desktop environments are as follows:
KDE The K Desktop Environment, or KDE (www.kde.org), is a popular desktop environment for Linux. It’s the default desktop environment for Mandriva and openSUSE. It includes many powerful tools that integrate...
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