Pipe 2R1W Update on PC-BSD's new Lumina Desktop

Update on PC-BSD's new Lumina Desktop

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The official PC-BSD blog recently posted an progress update on the Lumina desktop. There are screen shots and a list of updated features.

For those that don't know, Lumina is a new light weight wm built on Fluxbox using the Qt toolkit. The development is spearheaded by Ken Moore of the PC-BSD project.

http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/08/pc-bsd-10-0-3-preview-lumina-desktop/

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2014-08-28 10:51
PC-BSD's new Lumina desktop is advancing fast
zafiro17@pipedot.org
Earlier this year the folks at PC-BSD announced they would be developing a new desktop environment by the name of Lumina. The official PC-BSD blog <recently posted an progress update on the Lumina desktop that shows they are making huge progress. There are screen shots and a list of updated features.

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Lumina is a new light weight window manager built on Fluxbox using the Qt toolkit. The development is spearheaded by Ken Moore of the PC-BSD project.

There's lots more about Lumina at their Lumina FAQ. Most important of all is the question "Why a new desktop:// environment?" Their answer is related to the fact that because the other desktops are built first on Linux they must be ported, which is taking more and more time and energy; furthermore, many desktops now depend on Linux-specific functionality that makes the port almost impossible.

The Lumina deskt
op will also provide BSD-specific features through its file manager, like full ZFS snapshot restore capability.pc<bsr/>
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d. norg/2014/08/pc-bte: sd-10-0-3-neak preview-, but I was plumanning on doing this one for Distro Frida-desky top/morrow. Sta>y tuned.]
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