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Index Desktop environment

In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system, which share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphical shell. [1]

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KMLDonkey, Knoppix, Komposé, Kontact, KSnapshot, KSquirrel, Kurumin, KWallet, KWin, Kwort Linux, Lanedo, Leafpad, Light-weight Linux distribution, Linus Torvalds, Linux, Linux distribution, Linux Mint, LinuxBBQ, LinuxForums.org, List of alternative shells for Windows, List of features removed in Windows XP, List of file formats, List of GNU packages, List of Google products, List of graphical user interface elements, List of GTK+ applications, List of Linux distributions, List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet, Litl, Live distributed object, Looking Glass (UNIX desktop), Lubuntu, Lumina (desktop environment), LXDE, LXQt, Maciej Stachowiak, Mandriva Linux, MATE (software), MDic, Menu bar, Metacity, Metisse, Mezzo (desktop environment), Microshaft Winblows 98, Microsoft Access, Microsoft HoloLens, Midori (web browser), Mir (software), Mission Control (macOS), Moblin, MorphOS, Motif Window Manager, Mozilla Prism, Mpv (media player), Mrxvt, Mugshot (website), Muine, Multiple frames interface, MX Linux, My Documents, MyColors, Nat Friedman, NetworkManager, Nexus (ClariS song), NimbleX, Nokia N900, Notrium, Nuvola, ODMA, Olivier Fourdan, Olwm, Online OS, OnLive, OpenGEU, OpenSUSE, OpenWindows, Operating environment, OS X El Capitan, OS-tan, Outreachy, P.I.P.S., Parrot Security OS, Parsix, Peppermint Linux OS, Personal wiki, Pluma (editor), Poppler (software), Portland Project, Post-PC era, Principle of least astonishment, Project Looking Glass, Project management software, Propaganda (desktop backgrounds), Proxecto Trasno, Q Public License, Qimo 4 Kids, Qt (software), Qt Project, Quantian, Qubes OS, Rainlendar, RandR, Razor-qt, ReactOS, Real-time strategy, Recoll, Remote administration, Remote desktop software, Rolling distribution, ROSA Linux, ROX Desktop, Sakura HyperMedia Desktop, Samsung Galaxy S8, Sawfish (window manager), Scheme (programming language), Screenfetch, Seismic Micro-Technology, Semantic web data space, Server Core, Session (computer science), 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Active Platform

The Active Platform was the name of a development platform released by Microsoft in the 90s for creating web applications and delivering them to a PC desktop environment.

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Adele Goldberg (computer scientist)

Adele Goldberg (born July 7, 1945) is a computer scientist who participated in developing the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), in the 1970s.

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Adobe AIR

Adobe AIR (formerly Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a cross-platform runtime system developed by Adobe Systems for building desktop applications and mobile applications, programmed using Adobe Animate, ActionScript and optionally Apache Flex.

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Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is a deprecated multimedia software platform used for production of animations, rich Internet applications, desktop applications, mobile applications, mobile games and embedded web browser video players.

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Alt-Tab

is the common name for a keyboard shortcut that has been in Microsoft Windows since Windows 3.0.

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Ambient (desktop environment)

Ambient is a MUI-based desktop environment for MorphOS.

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AmigaOS version history

AmigaOS is the proprietary native operating system of the Amiga personal computer.

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Antergos

Antergos is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux.

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AntiX

antiX is a Linux distribution built directly on Debian Stable.

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Aqua (user interface)

Aqua is the graphical user interface (GUI) and visual theme of Apple's macOS operating system.

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ArcGIS

ArcGIS is a geographic information system (GIS) for working with maps and geographic information.

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Arch Linux

Arch Linux (or Arch) is a Linux distribution for computers based on x86-64 architectures.

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Archive Manager

Archive Manager (previously File Roller) is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment.

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Asturix

Asturix OS is a discontinued Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.

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At Ease

At Ease was an alternative to the Macintosh desktop developed by Apple Computer in the early 1990s for the classic Mac OS.

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Avant Window Navigator

Avant Window Navigator (abbreviated AWN or Awn) is a dock-like bar for Linux, which sits on an edge of a user's screen and tracks open windows.

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Étoilé

Étoilé (French for starry) is a GNUstep-based free software desktop environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind, in order to allow users to create their own workflow by reshaping or recombining provided services (applications), and other components.

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Basic4ppc

Basic4ppc (pronounced "Basic for PPC") is a programming language for Pocket PC handheld computers running Windows Mobile operating system, by Anywhere Software.

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BeleniX

BeleniX was an operating system distribution built using the OpenSolaris source base.

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Bibledit

Bibledit is series of related open source software projects for editing and translating the Bible.

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Blackbird (online platform)

Blackbird was the codename for an online content authoring platform developed by Microsoft in the mid-90s based on the concept of distributed OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) and meant as an alternative to HTML.

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Bliss (image)

Bliss is the name of the default computer wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system.

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Blue Frog

The Blue Frog tool, produced by Blue Security Inc., operated in 2006 as part of a community-based anti-spam system which tried to persuade spammers to remove community members' addresses from their mailing lists by automating the complaint process for each user as spam is received.

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Bonobo (GNOME)

Bonobo is an obsolete component framework for the GNOME free desktop environment.

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Bounce keys

Bounce keys is a feature of computer Desktop Environments.

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Brad Wardell

Bradley R. Wardell (born June 24, 1971) is an American businessman, programmer, author and AI Engineer.

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Browserless Web

Browserless Web is communication between web applications without the need for a web browser.

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Budgie (desktop environment)

Budgie is a desktop environment that uses GNOME technologies such as GTK+ (> 3.x) and is developed by the Solus project as well as by contributors from numerous communities like openSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch Linux and Ubuntu Budgie.

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BumpTop

BumpTop was a skeuomorphic desktop environment app that stimulates the normal behavior and physical properties of a real-world desk and enhances it with automatic tools to organize its contents.

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Caldera OpenLinux

Caldera OpenLinux (COL) is a defunct Linux distribution that was originally introduced by Caldera in 1997 based on the German LST Power Linux distribution, and then taken over and further developed by Caldera Systems (now SCO Group) since 1998.

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Calmira

Calmira is an alternate shell available for Windows 3.1x and up that has an appearance resembling Windows 95.

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Canaima (operating system)

Canaima GNU/Linux is a open source operating system.

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Cdrkit

cdrkit is a collection of computer programs for CD and DVD authoring that work on Unix-like systems.

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Characters and organizations in Year Zero

In the Year Zero alternate reality game several characters and organizations are mentioned.

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Cinnamon (software)

Cinnamon is a free and open-source desktop environment for the X Window System that derives from GNOME 3 but follows traditional desktop metaphor conventions.

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Citrix Cloud

Citrix Cloud is a cloud management platform that allows organizations to deploy cloud-hosted desktops and apps to end users.

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Color blindness

Color blindness, also known as color vision deficiency, is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color.

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Common Desktop Environment

The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit.

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Comparison of BSD operating systems

There are a number of Unix-like operating systems based on or descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of Unix variants options.

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Comparison of desktop application launchers

An application launcher is a computer program that helps a user to locate and start other computer programs.

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Comparison of Linux distributions

Technical variations of Linux distributions include support for different hardware devices and systems or software package configurations.

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Comparison of massively multiplayer online role-playing games

This article contains an almost full table comparison of current massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs).

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Comparison of OpenSolaris distributions

Technical variations of Solaris distributions include support for different hardware devices and systems or software package configurations.

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Comparison of X Window System desktop environments

A desktop environment is a collection of software designed to give functionality and a certain look and feel to an operating system.

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Computer virus

A computer virus is a type of malicious software program ("malware") that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code.

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Context menu

A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation.

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Control-V

In computing, Control-V is a key stroke with a variety of uses including generation of a control character in ASCII code, also known as the synchronous idle (SYN) character.

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CoolWebSearch

CoolWebSearch (also known as CoolWWWSearch or abbreviated as CWS) is a spyware or virus program that installs itself on Microsoft Windows based computers.

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COSCUP

Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters (COSCUP) is an annual conference held by Taiwanese Open source community participants since 2006.

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Cracking of wireless networks

Cracking a wireless network is defeating the security of a wireless local-area network (back-jack wireless LAN).

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Criticism of Linux

The criticism of Linux focuses on issues concerning use of operating systems which use the Linux kernel.

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CrossOver (software)

CrossOver is a Microsoft Windows compatibility layer available for macOS and Linux.

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Crouton (computing)

Crouton (Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment) is a set of scripts which allows Ubuntu, Debian, and Kali Linux systems to run parallel to a Chrome OS system.

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CrunchBang Linux

CrunchBang Linux (abbreviated #!) was a Linux distribution derived from Debian by Philip Newborough (who is more commonly known by his username, corenominal).

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D-Bus

In computing, D-Bus (for "Desktop Bus"), a software bus, is an inter-process communication (IPC) and remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism that allows communication between multiple computer programs (that is, processes) concurrently running on the same machine.

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DE

DE, de, or dE may refer to.

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Debian

Debian is a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of free software, and packaged by a group of individuals participating in the Debian Project.

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Deepin

Deepin (stylized as deepin; formerly known as Linux Deepin and Hiweed Linux) is an open source operating system for computers.

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DeLi Linux

Desktop Light Linux (DeLi Linux for short) was a desktop Linux distribution for old PCs.

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Desk accessory

A desk accessory (DA) in computing is a small transient or auxiliary application that can be run concurrently in a desktop environment with any other application on the system.

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Desktop

Desktop may refer to.

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Desktop Cleanup Wizard

The Desktop Cleanup Wizard is a component included with Microsoft's Windows XP operating system.

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Desktop metaphor

In computing, the desktop metaphor is an interface metaphor which is a set of unifying concepts used by graphical user interfaces to help users interact more easily with the computer.

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Desktop virtualization

Desktop virtualization is software technology that separates the desktop environment and associated application software from the physical client device that is used to access it.

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Desktop wars

Desktop wars may refer to.

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Desktop.com

Desktop.com was an Application Service Provider founded by Katie Burke Mitic, Larry Drebes, and Karen Drebes.

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DesktopTwo

Desktoptwo was a free Webtop (whose URL was desktoptwo.com and which is now parked domain) developed by Sapotek (whose URL was sapotek.com, which also now is parked domain).

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DesktopX

DesktopX was a shareware desktop enhancement program that allowed users to build their own custom desktops.

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DevConf.cz

DevConf.cz (Developer Conference) is a yearly conference for all Linux and JBoss Community Developers, Admins and Linux users organized by Red Hat Czech Republic, the Fedora and JBoss Community.

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Diaeresis (diacritic)

The diaeresis (plural: diaereses), also spelled diæresis or dieresis and also known as the tréma (also: trema) or the umlaut, is a diacritical mark that consists of two dots placed over a letter, usually a vowel.

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Drag and drop

In computer graphical user interfaces, drag and drop is a pointing device gesture in which the user selects a virtual object by "grabbing" it and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object.

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Dragon Player

Dragon Player is a simple media player for the KDE desktop environment.

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Drop shadow

In graphic design, a drop shadow is a visual effect consisting of a drawing element which looks like the shadow of an object, giving the impression that the object is raised above the objects behind it.

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Dropline GNOME

Dropline GNOME is a version of the GNOME desktop environment intended for use in Slackware.

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Dtlogin

dtlogin is a display manager for the X Window System.

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Dwm

dwm is a dynamic, minimalist tiling window manager for the X Window System that has influenced the development of several other X window managers, including xmonad and awesome.

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Dyne:bolic

dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a Live CD/DVD distribution based on the Linux kernel.

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EDE (desktop environment)

EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) is a light-weight desktop environment with an appearance somewhat reminiscent of windows 9x.

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Elementary OS

elementary OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.

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Elephants Dream

Elephants Dream (code-named Orange and originally titled Machina) is a 2006 English-language and Dutch-produced 3D CGI animated science fiction 9-minute short film that was produced almost completely using the free software 3D suite Blender (except for the modular sound studio Reaktor and the cluster that rendered the final production which ran Mac OS X).

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Emesene

emesene was an open source instant messaging client designed for use with Microsoft Messenger service.

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Emmabuntüs

Emmabuntüs is a Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu/Debian and designed to facilitate the repacking of computers donated to humanitarian organizations like the Emmaüs Communities.

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Enlightenment (software)

Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a compositing window manager for the X Window System.

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Environment

Environment may refer to.

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Evince

Evince is a document viewer for PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF, XPS and DVI formats.

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Extended Window Manager Hints

Extended Window Manager Hints, a.k.a. NetWM or Net WM, is an X Window System standard for window managers.

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Falkon

Falkon (formerly QupZilla) is a free and open-source web browser.

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Fast user switching

Fast user switching is a feature, i.e. a term for some rather loosely specified functionality, of a multi-user operating system.

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Feather Linux

Feather Linux, created by Robert Sullivan, was a Knoppix-based operating system which fits in under 128 MB (while older versions were made to fit within 64 MB).

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Fedora (operating system)

Fedora is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat.

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Fences (software)

Fences is a utility for Windows that helps to organize icons on the desktop.

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File Explorer

File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards.

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Filename extension

A filename extension is an identifier specified as a suffix to the name of a computer file.

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Fluxbox

Fluxbox is a stacking window manager for the X Window System, which started as a fork of Blackbox 0.61.1 in 2001, with the same aim to be lightweight.

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Font rasterization

Font rasterization is the process of converting text from a vector description (as found in scalable fonts such as TrueType fonts) to a raster or bitmap description.

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Fontmatrix

Fontmatrix is a font manager for Linux desktop environments.

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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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Freedesktop.org

freedesktop.org (fd.o) is a project to work on interoperability and shared base technology for free software desktop environments for the X Window System (X11) on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

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Front and back ends

In software engineering, the terms front end and back end refer to the separation of concerns between the presentation layer (front end), and the data access layer (back end) of a piece of software, or the physical infrastructure or hardware.

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Fxtv

Fxtv is a program that allows a person to watch and record television through a PC with a Brooktree 848 compatible TV tuner via the bktr(4) driver.

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GeckoLinux

GeckoLinux is a Linux distribution, based on openSUSE.

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Gedit

gedit is the default text editor of the GNOME desktop environment and part of the GNOME Core Applications.

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Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux (pronounced) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system.

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GhostBSD

GhostBSD is a Unix-like operating system based on FreeBSD, with Xfce and MATE as its default desktop environments (GNOME was the previous desktop environment).

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Glide OS

Glide OS is a cross-platform web desktop developed by.

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GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment composed of free and open-source software that runs on Linux and most BSD derivatives.

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GNOME Do

GNOME Do (often referred to as Do) is a free and open-source application launcher for Linux originally created by David Siegel, and currently maintained by Alex Launi.

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GNOME Screenshot

GNOME Screenshot is a utility used in the GNOME desktop environment for taking screenshots.

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GNOME Storage

GNOME Storage was a project to replace the traditional file system with a new document store.

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Gnome Subtitles

Gnome Subtitles is an open-source subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop, based on Mono.

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GNOME Terminal

GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others.

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GNOME Videos

GNOME Videos, formerly known as Totem, is a media player (audio and video) for the GNOME computer desktop environment.

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GNOME Web

GNOME Web (originally called Epiphany until 2012) is a free and open-source web browser for the GNOME desktop environment.

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GNU

GNU is an operating system and an extensive collection of computer software.

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GNU Parted

GNU Parted (the name being the conjunction of the two words PARTition and EDitor) is a free partition editor, used for creating and deleting partitions.

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GnuLinEx

gnuLinEx, or LinEx, is a Debian-based operating system that uses GNOME for its desktop.

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GO-Global

GraphOn GO-Global is remote access/application publishing software that allows users to access and run Windows, Linux, and UNIX applications installed on a central server.

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Google Cloud Print

Google Cloud Print is a Google service that lets users print from any Cloud-Print-aware application (web, desktop, mobile) on any device in the network cloud to any printer – without Google having to create and maintain printing subsystems for all the hardware combinations of client devices and printers, and without the users having to install device drivers to the client, but with documents being fully transmitted to Google.

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GOS (operating system)

gOS or "good OS" was an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution created by Good OS LLC, a Los Angeles-based corporation.

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Granular Linux

Granular, or Granular Linux, is a Linux distribution targeted at the common desktop users.

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Graphical user interface

The graphical user interface (GUI), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.

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GThumb

gThumb is a free and open-source image viewer and organizer with options to edit images.

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GTK+

GTK+ (formerly GIMP Toolkit) is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.

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Gummi (software)

Gummi is a LaTeX editor.

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Gwibber

Gwibber is a microblogging client for the GNOME desktop environment.

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HAL (software)

HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer or rather Hardware Annotation Library) is a software subsystem for UNIX-like operating systems providing hardware abstraction.

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Handle (computing)

In computer programming, a handle is an abstract reference to a resource.

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HandyLinux

HandyLinux is a Linux distribution originating in France and derived from the Debian stable branch.

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Hawaii (disambiguation)

Hawaii is a state of the United States, nearly coterminous with the Hawaiian Islands.

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Her Story (video game)

Her Story is an interactive movie video game written and directed by Sam Barlow.

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Hidden file and hidden directory

In computing, a hidden folder (sometimes hidden directory) or hidden file is a folder or file which filesystem utilities do not display by default when showing a directory listing.

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Hildon

Hildon is an application framework originally developed for mobile devices (PDAs, mobile phones, etc.) running the Linux operating system as well as the Symbian operating system.

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History of free and open-source software

In the 1950s and 1960s, computer operating software and compilers were delivered as a part of hardware purchases without separate fees.

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History of the graphical user interface

The history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade span of incremental refinements, built on some constant core principles.

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Holiline Reminder

Holiline Reminder is a free software calendar program for Windows.

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Hosted desktop

A hosted desktop is a product set within the larger cloud-computing sphere generally delivered using a combination of technologies including hardware virtualization and some form of remote connection software, Citrix XenApp or Microsoft Remote Desktop Services being two of the most common.

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HP NewWave

NewWave is a discontinued object-oriented graphical desktop environment and office productivity tool for PCs running early versions of Microsoft Windows (beginning with 2.0).

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Human interface guidelines

Human interface guidelines (HIG) are software development documents which offer application developers a set of recommendations.

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I3 (window manager)

i3 is a tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C. It supports tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts, which it handles dynamically.

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Image organizer

An image organizer or image management application is application software focused on organising digital images.

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Image persistence

Image persistence, or image retention, is the LCD and plasma display equivalent of screen burn.

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Index of computing articles

Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and the science and technology of mathematical calculations.

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Inner-platform effect

The inner-platform effect is the tendency of software architects to create a system so customizable as to become a replica, and often a poor replica, of the software development platform they are using.

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Inno Setup

Inno Setup is a free software script-driven installation system created in Delphi by Jordan Russell.

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Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual

In computing, the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM or I39L short for "I", 39 letters and "L") is a standard protocol for the X Window System.

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Internet Channel

The Internet Channel is a version of the Opera 9 web browser for use on the Wii by Opera Software and Nintendo.

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Internet OS

An Internet operating system, or Internet OS, is any type of operating system designed to run all of its applications and services through an Internet client, generally a web browser.

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IRIS Workspace

The IRIS WorkSpace was a graphically organized iconic desktop environment that allowed access to the IRIX file system along with simplified system administration via the system manager.

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IRIX Interactive Desktop

IRIX Interactive Desktop (formerly called Indigo Magic Desktop) is a desktop environment normally used as the default desktop on Silicon Graphics workstations running IRIX.

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Java Desktop System

Java Desktop System, briefly known as OpenSolaris Desktop, is a legacy desktop environment developed first by Sun Microsystems and then by Oracle Corporation after the 2010 Oracle acquisition of Sun.

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Java-gnome

java-gnome is a set of language bindings for the Java programming language for use in the GNOME desktop environment.

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JIS X 0208

JIS X 0208 is a 2-byte character set specified as a Japanese Industrial Standard, containing 6879 graphic characters suitable for writing text, place names, personal names, and so forth in the Japanese language.

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K Desktop Environment 1

K Desktop Environment 1 was the inaugural series of releases of the K Desktop Environment.

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K Desktop Environment 2

K Desktop Environment 2 was the second series of releases of the K Desktop Environment.

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K Desktop Environment 3

K Desktop Environment 3 is the third series of releases of the K Desktop Environment (after that called KDE Software Compilation).

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Kadu (software)

Kadu is a free and open source multi-platform instant messaging client that supports Gadu-Gadu, XMPP IM networks and other services based on XMPP like Google Talk.

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KAlarm

KAlarm is a personal alarm message, command and email scheduler application integrated with the KDE desktop environment.

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Kanotix

Kanotix, also referred to as KANOTIX, is an operating system based on Debian, with advanced hardware detection.

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KDE

KDE is an international free software community that develops Free and Open Source based software.

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KDE Display Manager

KDE Display Manager (KDM) is a display manager (a graphical login program) developed by KDE for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland.

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KDE Frameworks

KDE Frameworks is a collection of libraries and software frameworks by KDE that serve as technological foundation for KDE Plasma 5 and KDE Applications distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

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KDE Plasma 4

KDE Plasma 4, subsequently renamed from KDE Plasma Workspaces, is the umbrella term for the fourth generation graphical environments provided by KDE.

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KDE Plasma 5

KDE Plasma 5 is the fifth and current generation of the desktop environment created by KDE primarily for Linux systems.

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KDE Platform 4

KDE Platform 4 is a collection of libraries and software frameworks by KDE that serve as technological foundation for KDE Software Compilation 4 distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

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KDE Software Compilation

The KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) was formerly used as an umbrella term consisting of a desktop environment and an associated range of KDE Applications produced by KDE.

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KDE Software Compilation 4

KDE Software Compilation 4 (KDE SC 4) was the only series of the so-called KDE Software Compilation (short: KDE SC), first released in January 2008 and the last release being 4.14.3 released in November 2014.

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KidDesk

KidDesk is an alternative desktop software application.

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Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You

Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You is a 2003 studio album by American electronic musician Miguel Depedro under his alias of Kid 606.

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KMLDonkey

KMLDonkey is a graphical frontend for MLDonkey, a powerful P2P file sharing tool, designed for the KDE desktop.

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Knoppix

KNOPPIX is an operating system based on Debian designed to be run directly from a CD / DVD (Live CD) or a USB flash drive (Live USB), one of the first of its kind for any operating system.

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Komposé

In computing, Komposé is a free software fullscreen task switcher for the KDE Desktop Environment.

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Kontact

Kontact is a personal information manager and groupware software suite developed by KDE.

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KSnapshot

KSnapshot is a screenshot application for the KDE desktop environment developed by Richard J. Moore, Matthias Ettrich and Aaron J. Seigo.

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KSquirrel

KSquirrel is an image viewer for the KDE desktop environment with a disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, dynamic format support, DCOP interface, KEXIF and KIPI plugins support.

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Kurumin

Kurumin Linux was a Live CD operating system based on Debian.

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KWallet

KWallet (KDE Wallet Manager) is a credentials management application for the KDE Software Compilation desktop environment.

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KWin

KWin is a window manager for the X Window System and is currently in the process of becoming a Wayland compositor.

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Kwort Linux

Kwort is a Linux distribution, based on CRUX.

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Lanedo

Lanedo is a professional open source software development consultancy based in Germany.

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Leafpad

Leafpad is an open source text editor for Linux, BSD, and Maemo.

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Light-weight Linux distribution

A light-weight Linux distribution is a Linux distribution that has lower memory and/or processor-speed requirements than a more "feature-rich" Linux distribution.

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Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator, and historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for operating systems such as the Linux operating systems, Android, and Chrome OS.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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Linux distribution

A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection, which is based upon the Linux kernel and, often, a package management system.

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Linux Mint

Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu that strives to be a "modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use." Linux Mint provides full out-of-the-box multimedia support by including some proprietary software and comes bundled with a variety of free and open-source applications.

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LinuxBBQ

LinuxBBQ is a desktop-oriented operating system based on the "unstable" branch of Debian, which uses the codename Sid.

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LinuxForums.org

LinuxForums.org is a community-driven website owned by MAS Media Inc.

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List of alternative shells for Windows

This is a list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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List of features removed in Windows XP

As the next version of Windows NT after Windows 2000, as well as the successor to Windows Me, Windows XP introduced many new features but it also removed some others.

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List of file formats

This is a list of file formats used by computers, organized by type.

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List of GNU packages

This list of GNU packages lists notable software packages developed for or maintained by the Free Software Foundation as part of the GNU Project.

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List of Google products

The following is a list of products and services provided by Google.

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List of graphical user interface elements

Graphical user interface elements are those elements used by graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to offer a consistent visual language to represent information stored in computers.

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List of GTK+ applications

This is a list of notable applications that use GTK+ and/or Clutter for their GUI widgets.

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List of Linux distributions

This page provides general information about notable Linux distributions in the form of a categorized list.

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List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet

Google is a computer software and a web search engine company that acquired, on average, more than one company per week in 2010 and 2011.

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Litl

The litl webbook is a webbook developed, marketed, and sold by litl LLC.

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Live distributed object

Live distributed object (also abbreviated as live object) refers to a running instance of a distributed multi-party (or peer-to-peer) protocol, viewed from the object-oriented perspective, as an entity that has a distinct identity, may encapsulate internal state and threads of execution, and that exhibits a well-defined externally visible behavior.

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Looking Glass (UNIX desktop)

Looking Glass is a desktop environment for computers running the UNIX operating system.

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Lubuntu

Lubuntu is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu but using the LXDE desktop environment in place of Ubuntu's Unity shell and GNOME desktop.

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Lumina (desktop environment)

Lumina Desktop Environment, or simply Lumina, is a plugin-based desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

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LXDE

LXDE (abbreviation for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment with comparatively low resource requirements.

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LXQt

LXQt is a bundle of software packages under development, with the aim of providing a complete desktop environment.

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Maciej Stachowiak

Maciej Stachowiak (born June 6, 1976) is a Polish American software developer currently employed by Apple Inc., where he is a leader of the development team responsible for the Safari web browser and WebKit Framework.

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Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux (a fusion of the French distribution Mandrakelinux or Mandrake Linux and the Brazilian distribution Conectiva Linux) was a Linux distribution by Mandriva.

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MATE (software)

MATE is a desktop environment composed of free and open-source software that runs on Linux and most BSD derivatives.

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MDic

MDic is a multilingual free dictionary software developed for the Linux operating system.

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Menu bar

A menu bar is a graphical control element which contains drop-down menus.

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Metacity

Metacity was the default window manager used by the GNOME 2 desktop environment until it was replaced by Mutter in GNOME 3.

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Metisse

Metisse is a 2.5D desktop environment.

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Mezzo (desktop environment)

Mezzo is the desktop environment created by Ryan Quinn.

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Microshaft Winblows 98

Microshaft Winblows 98 is a 1998 interactive comedy video game developed by Parroty Interactive and released by Palladium Interactive.

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Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.

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Microsoft HoloLens

Microsoft HoloLens, known under development as Project Baraboo, is a pair of mixed reality smartglasses developed and manufactured by Microsoft.

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Midori (web browser)

is a free and open-source light-weight.

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Mir (software)

Mir is a computer display server and, recently, a Wayland compositor for the Linux operating system that is under development by Canonical Ltd. It was planned to replace the currently used X Window System for Ubuntu, however the plan changed and Mutter was adopted as part of GNOME Shell.

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Mission Control (macOS)

Mission Control, formerly Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces is a feature of the Mac OS X operating system.

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Moblin

Moblin, short for 'mobile Linux', is a discontinued open source operating system and application stack for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, nettops and embedded devices.

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MorphOS

MorphOS is an AmigaOS-like computer operating system.

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Motif Window Manager

In computing, the Motif Window Manager (MWM) is an X window manager based on the Motif toolkit.

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Mozilla Prism

Mozilla Prism (formerly WebRunner) is a discontinued project which integrated web applications with the desktop, allowing web applications to be launched from the desktop and configured independently of the default web browser.

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Mpv (media player)

mpv is media player software, based on MPlayer and mplayer2.

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Mrxvt

The mrxvt program is a terminal emulator for X Window System.

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Mugshot (website)

Mugshot was a social networking website created by Red Hat.

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Muine

Muine is an audio player for the GNOME desktop environment which runs on Linux, Solaris, BSD and other UNIX-like systems.

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Multiple frames interface

A Multiple Frames Interface (MFI) is a type of user interface which displays information in a set of frames or panels that can be scrolled vertically on the screen.

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MX Linux

MX Linux is a midweight Linux operating system based on Debian stable and using core antiX components, with additional software created and/or packaged by the MX community.

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My Documents

My Documents is the commonly recognized name of a special folder in Microsoft Windows (even though starting with Windows Vista, it is called Documents only, and the actual name of the folder might be different when the language of the installed copy of Windows is not English.) This folder is supposed to be a personal area where users store their personal non-shared documents.

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MyColors

MyColors is a digital distribution platform for themes developed by Stardock.

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Nat Friedman

Nathaniel Dourif Friedman (born August 6, 1977) is an American technology executive.

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NetworkManager

NetworkManager is a daemon that sits on top of libudev and other Linux kernel interfaces (and a couple of other daemons) and provides a high-level interface for the configuration of the network interfaces.

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Nexus (ClariS song)

"Nexus" is a pop song by the Japanese duo and idol unit ClariS, written by Kz.

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NimbleX

NimbleX is a small Slackware-based Linux distribution optimized to run from a CD, USB drive or a network environment.

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Nokia N900

No description.

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Notrium

Notrium is a survival top-down view video game for PC/Microsoft Windows, developed by independent Finnish programmer Ville Mönkkönen.

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Nuvola

Nuvola (from Italian "cloud") is a free software icon set under the GNU LGPL 2.1 license, created by David Vignoni.

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ODMA

The Open Document Management API is an API that simplifies the communication of desktop applications with document management systems (DMS).

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Olivier Fourdan

Olivier Fourdan is the creator of the Xfce desktop environment, for which development began at the end of 1996.

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Olwm

olwm (OPEN LOOK Window Manager) was the default stacking window manager for OpenWindows, the original X11 desktop environment included with SunOS and Solaris.

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Online OS

The Online Operating System was a fully multi-lingual and free to use web desktop written in JavaScript using Ajax.

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OnLive

OnLive was a Mountain View, California-based provider of cloud virtualization technologies.

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OpenGEU

OpenGEU was a free computer operating system based upon the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, which in turn is based on Debian GNU/Linux.

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OpenSUSE

openSUSE, formerly SUSE Linux and SuSE Linux Professional, is a Linux-based project and distribution sponsored by SUSE Linux GmbH and other companies.

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OpenWindows

OpenWindows was a desktop environment for Sun Microsystems workstations which combined SunView, NeWS, and X Window System protocols.

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Operating environment

In computer software, an operating environment or integrated applications environment is the environment in which users run application software.

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OS X El Capitan

OS X El Capitan (version 10.11) is the twelfth major release of OS X (now named macOS), Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

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OS-tan

The OS-tan is an Internet meme that originated within the Japanese Futaba Channel.

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Outreachy

Outreachy (previously the Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women) is a program that organizes three-month paid internships with free and open-source software projects for people who are typically underrepresented in those projects.

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P.I.P.S.

P.I.P.S. is a term (recursive acronym) for Symbian software libraries that means, P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian OS.

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Parrot Security OS

Parrot Security OS (or ParrotSec) is a Linux distribution based on Debian with a focus on computer security.

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Parsix

Parsix GNU/Linux is a live and installation DVD based on Debian.

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Peppermint Linux OS

Peppermint Linux OS is a cloud-centric OS based on Lubuntu, a derivative of the Ubuntu Linux operating system that uses the LXDE desktop environment.

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Personal wiki

A personal wiki is a wiki maintained primarily for personal use.

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Pluma (editor)

pluma ("feather") is a fork of gedit 2 and the default text editor of the MATE desktop environment used in Linux distributions.

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Poppler (software)

Poppler is a free software utility library for rendering Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.

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Portland Project

The Portland Project is an initiative by freedesktop.org aiming at easing the portability of application software between desktop environments and kernels by designing cross-platform APIs and offering implementations thereof as libraries to independent software vendors (ISVs).

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Post-PC era

The Post-PC era is a market trend observed during the late 2000s and early 2010s involving a decline in the sales of personal computers in favor of post-PC devices; which include mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers as well as other mobile computers such as wearable and ubiquitous ones.

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Principle of least astonishment

The principle of least astonishment (POLA) (alternatively "principle/law/rule of least astonishment/surprise") applies to user interface and software design.

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Project Looking Glass

Project Looking Glass is a now inactive free software project under the GPL to create an innovative 3D desktop environment for Linux, Solaris, and Windows.

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Project management software

Project management software has the capacity to help plan, organize, and manage resource tools and develop resource estimates.

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Propaganda (desktop backgrounds)

PROPAGANDA is a large collection of GPL-licensed seamless desktop backgrounds included in various Linux distributions, and available via free download over the web.

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Proxecto Trasno

The Proxecto Trasno is an open community dedicated to localise open-source software to Galician language.

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Q Public License

The Q Public License (QPL) is a non-copyleft license, created by Trolltech for its free edition of the Qt.

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Qimo 4 Kids

Qimo 4 Kids (pronounced "kim-oh", as in "eskimo") is a child-friendly desktop environment built entirely with free software.

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Qt (software)

Qt ("cute") is a cross-platform application framework and widget toolkit for creating classic and embedded graphical user interfaces, and applications that run on various software and hardware platforms with little or no change in the underlying codebase, while still being a native application with native capabilities and speed.

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Qt Project

The Qt Project is a project to co-ordinate the development of the Qt software framework.

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Quantian

Quantian OS is a remastering of Knoppix/Debian for computational sciences.

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Qubes OS

Qubes OS is a security-focused desktop operating system that aims to provide security through isolation.

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Rainlendar

Rainlendar is a calendar program for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

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RandR

RandR ("resize and rotate") is a communications protocol written as an extension to the X11 protocol.

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Razor-qt

No description.

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ReactOS

ReactOS is a free and open-source operating system for x86/x64 personal computers intended to be binary-compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows Server 2003.

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Real-time strategy

Real-time strategy (RTS) is a subgenre of strategy video games where the game does not progress incrementally in turns.

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Recoll

Recoll is a desktop search tool that provides efficient full text search (from single-word to arbitrarily complex boolean searches) in a friendly GUI, with minimum technical sophistication and few mandatory external dependencies.

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Remote administration

Remote administration refers to any method of controlling a computer from a remote location.

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Remote desktop software

In computing, the term remote desktop refers to a software or operating system feature that allows a personal computer's desktop environment to be run remotely on one system (usually a PC, but the concept applies equally to a server), while being displayed on a separate client device.

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Rolling distribution

Software distributions, of which Linux distributions form a sizable proportion, are commonly referred to as distros, with rolling release distributions commonly referred to as rolling distros.

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ROSA Linux

ROSA Linux is a Linux operating system and distribution, developed by Russian company LLC NTC IT ROSA.

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ROX Desktop

The ROX Desktop is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System.

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Sakura HyperMedia Desktop

Sakura HyperMedia Desktop is an open source desktop environment and knowledge navigator for Unix.

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Samsung Galaxy S8

The Samsung Galaxy S8, Samsung Galaxy S8+ (shortened to S8 and S8+, respectively) and Samsung Galaxy S8 Active are Android phablet smartphones (with the S8+ being the phablet smartphone) produced by Samsung Electronics as their eighth generation of the Samsung Galaxy S series.

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Sawfish (window manager)

Sawfish is a window manager for the X Window System.

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Scheme (programming language)

Scheme is a programming language that supports multiple paradigms, including functional programming and imperative programming, and is one of the two main dialects of Lisp.

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Screenfetch

Screenfetch is a bash script available for Linux that displays system information alongside the ASCII version of the Linux distribution Logo of the system.

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Seismic Micro-Technology

Seismic Micro – Technology (SMT), is the maker of KINGDOM software.

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Semantic web data space

A semantic web data space is a container for domain specific portable data, which is provided in human and/or machine friendly structures.

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Server Core

Server Core is a minimalistic Microsoft Windows Server installation option, debuted in Windows Server 2008.

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Session (computer science)

In computer science, in particular networking, a session is a semi-permanent interactive information interchange between two or more communicating devices, or between a computer and user (see login session).

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Shell (computing)

In computing, a shell is a user interface for access to an operating system's services.

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Shortcut (computing)

In computing, a file shortcut is a handle in a user interface that allows the user to find a file or resource located in a different directory or folder from the place where the shortcut is located.

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Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments

In computing, SPICE (the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) is a remote-display system built for virtual environments which allows users to view a computing "desktop" environment – not only on its computer-server machine, but also from anywhere on the Internet – using a wide variety of machine architectures.

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Simple.com

Simple.com was an Application Service Provider founded by Sandro Pasquali and Carolynne Tilga in 1998.

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Skymotion

SkyMotion is a weather forecasting mobile application developed by North American firm Sky Motion Research Inc.

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Slax

Slax is a LiveCD Linux distribution based on Debian and is being developed by Tomáš Matějíček.

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Slow keys

Slow keys is a feature of computer desktop environments.

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Smartphone

A smartphone is a handheld personal computer with a mobile operating system and an integrated mobile broadband cellular network connection for voice, SMS, and Internet data communication; most, if not all, smartphones also support Wi-Fi.

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SmartQ 5

The SmartQ 5 is a budget mobile Internet device manufactured by the Chinese company Smart Devices.

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Social navigation

Social navigation is a form of social computing introduced by Dourish and Chalmers in 1994.

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Software widget

A software widget is a relatively simple and easy-to-use software application or component made for one or more different software platforms.

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Sound card mixer

A sound card mixer is the analog part of a sound card that routes and mixes sound signals.

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Sound Juicer

Sound Juicer is a GTK+-based graphical front-end to (or GUI for) the cdparanoia CD ripping library.

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SparkyLinux

SparkyLinux is a desktop-oriented operating system based on the Debian operating system.

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Start menu

The Start menu is a user interface element used in Microsoft Windows since Windows 95 and in some other operating systems.

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Sugar (software)

Sugar is a free and open-source desktop environment designed for interactive learning by children.

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Sugar Labs

Sugar Labs is a community-run software project whose mission is to produce, distribute, and support the use of Sugar, an open source desktop environment and learning platform.

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Sun Java Workstation

Sun Java Workstation was a line of computer workstations sold by Sun Microsystems from 2004 to 2006, based on the AMD Opteron microprocessor family.

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SunView

SunView (Sun Visual Integrated Environment for Workstations, originally SunTools) was a windowing system from Sun Microsystems developed in the early 1980s.

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Swing Application Framework

The Swing Application Framework (JSR 296) is a Java specification for a simple application framework for Swing applications, with a graphical user interface (GUI) in computer software.

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Syllable Desktop

Syllable Desktop is a free and open source operating system for Pentium and compatible processors.

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Symbiose (web desktop)

Symbiose is a web desktop and web integrated development environment.

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Symphony OS

Symphony OS, SymphonyOne or Symphony Linux, is a Live CD Linux-based operating system, developed by Ryan P Quinn, Jason Spisak, and Alexander Drummond.

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Tango Desktop Project

The Tango Desktop Project is an open-source initiative to create a set of design guidelines and to provide a consistent user experience for applications on desktop environments.

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Taskbar

A taskbar is an element of a graphical user interface which has various purposes.

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TEA (text editor)

TEA is a graphical text editor.

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Terminology (software)

Terminology is a terminal emulator for the X Window System and for the Wayland graphic server.

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The Qt Company

The Qt Company (formerly Trolltech) is a software company based in Espoo, Finland.

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The Tilery

The Tilery is an application switcher and utility for the classic Mac OS that places tiles on the user's desktop for each open application.

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Theme (computing)

In computing, a theme is a preset package containing graphical appearance details.

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Tivoli Software

Tivoli Software encompasses a set of products originally developed by Tivoli Systems Inc. IBM bought the company and ran the operation as its Tivoli Software division.

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TopXNotes

TopXNotes is a hybrid personal note and information organizer and password protector for Macintosh computers which allows notes to be entered and organized.

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Tracker (search software)

Tracker, is a file indexing and search framework for Linux and other Unix-like systems.

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Transputer

The transputer is a series of pioneering microprocessors from the 1980s, featuring integrated memory and serial communication links, intended for parallel computing.

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Trash (computing)

In computing, the Trash (also known as the Recycle Bin in Windows and by other names in other operating systems) is temporary storage for files that have been deleted in a file manager by the user, but not yet permanently erased from the file system.

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Trinity Desktop Environment

The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) is a fork of K Desktop Environment 3.5, organized and led by Timothy Pearson, who had coordinated Kubuntu remixes featuring KDE 3.5, after Kubuntu switched to KDE Plasma 4.

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Trisquel

Trisquel (officially Trisquel GNU/Linux) is a computer operating system, a Linux distribution, derived from another distribution, Ubuntu.

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TrueOS

TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD or PCBSD) is a Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT.

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Tvtime

tvtime is a program for Linux that allows a person to watch television through his or her PC using a TV tuner or a satellite receiver card DVB-S. tvtime does not use a general-purpose widget set, so it does not favour any particular desktop environment.

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Tweak UI

Microsoft Tweak UI is a free application, released in 1996 by Microsoft for customizing the Microsoft Windows operating system's user interface.

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Twm

twm (Tab Window Manager) is a window manager for the X Window System.

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UDE

The Unix Desktop Environment (UDE) is a desktop environment for the X Window System.

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Ultimate Defender

Ultimate Defender is a rogue antivirus program published by Nous-Tech Solutions Ltd.

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Ultrix

Ultrix (officially all-caps ULTRIX) is the brand name of Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) discontinued native Unix operating systems for the PDP-11, VAX and DECstations.

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United States v. Arnold

United States v. Arnold, 533 F.3d 1003 (9th Cir. 2008), is a United States court case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution does not require government agents to have reasonable suspicion before searching laptops or other digital devices at the border, including international airports.

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United States v. Microsoft Corp.

United States v. Microsoft Corporation, 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001), is a U.S. antitrust law case, ultimately settled by the Department of Justice (DOJ), in which Microsoft Corporation was accused of holding a monopoly and engaging in anti-competitive practices contrary to sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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Unity (user interface)

Unity is a graphical shell for the GNOME desktop environment originally developed by Canonical Ltd. for its Ubuntu operating system.

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Uruk GNU/Linux

Uruk GNU/Linux-libre is a Trisquel-based GNU system.

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User environment management

User environment management (also abbreviated to UEM) is the management of a computer user's experience within their desktop environment.

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User profile

A user profile is a visual display of personal data associated with a specific user, or a customized desktop environment.

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User virtualization

User virtualization refers to the independent management of all aspects of the user on the desktop environment.

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Vinagre

Vinagre is a VNC, SSH, RDP and SPICE client for the GNOME desktop environment.

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Vino (VNC server)

Vino is the VNC server for the GNOME desktop environment.

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Virtual desktop

In computing, a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interfaces, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which the virtual space of a computer's desktop environment is expanded beyond the physical limits of the screen's display area through the use of software.

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Virtualization

In computing, virtualization refers to the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including virtual computer hardware platforms, storage devices, and computer network resources.

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Visual Graphics

Visual Graphics is an open-source application framework licensed under the MIT License.

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Visual User Environment

Visual User Environment (VUE or HP-VUE) was Hewlett-Packard's Desktop environment for the X Window System, intended for use on Unix workstations.

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Visualization software

Visualization software or visualisation software is a range of computer graphics products used to create graphical displays and interfaces for software applications.

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Vtwm

Vtwm (the Virtual Tabbed Window Manager) is an X window manager that was developed from the twm codebase.

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Wayland (display server protocol)

Wayland is a computer protocol that specifies the communication between a display server (called a Wayland compositor) and its clients, as well as a reference implementation of the protocol in the C programming language.

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Web desktop

A web desktop or webtop is a desktop environment embedded in a web browser or similar client application.

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Wicd

Wicd, which stands for Wireless Interface Connection Daemon, is an open source software utility to manage both wireless and wired networks for Linux.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

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Window decoration

In graphical user interfaces, the window decoration is a part of a window in most windowing systems.

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Window Maker

Window Maker is a free and open source window manager for the X Window System, allowing graphical applications to be run on Unix-like operating-systems.

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Window manager

A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface.

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Windowing system

In computing, a windowing system (or window system) is software that manages separately different parts of display screens.

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Windows 8

Windows 8 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.

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Windows Desktop Gadgets

Windows Desktop Gadgets (called Windows Sidebar in Windows Vista) is a discontinued widget engine for Microsoft Gadgets.

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Windows key

The Windows logo key (also known as Windows key, start key, logo key, flag key, super key, command key or flag) is a keyboard key which was originally introduced on the Microsoft Natural keyboard in 1994.

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Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs.

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Windows NT 3.1

Windows NT 3.1 is a 32-bit operating system developed by Microsoft, and released on July 27, 1993.

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Wm2

wm2 is a minimalist reparenting window manager for the X Window System written by Chris Cannam.

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Workplace Shell

The Workplace Shell (WPS) is an object-oriented desktop shell (also called Desktop Environment) produced by IBM's Boca Raton development lab for OS/2 2.0.

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Workspace

Workspace is a term used in various branches of engineering and economic development.

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X display manager (program type)

In the X Window System, an X display manager is a graphical login manager which starts a session on an X server from the same or another computer.

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X window manager

An X window manager is a window manager which runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems.

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X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or shortened to simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on UNIX-like computer operating systems.

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X.desktop

X.desktop was an early desktop environment graphical user interface built on the X Window System.

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Xandros

Xandros was a software company which sold Xandros Desktop, a Linux distribution.

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Xarchiver

Xarchiver is a front-end to various command line archiving tools for Linux and BSD operating systems, designed to be independent of the desktop environment.

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Xawtv

xawtv is a program that allows the use of a PC for watching and recording television with either a TV tuner or a Satellite receiver card (DVB-S).

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XenDesktop

XenDesktop is a desktop virtualization software platform that allows multiple users to access and run Microsoft Windows desktops that are installed at a centralized location separate from the devices from which they are being accessed.

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XFast

XFast is a lightweight desktop environment that incorporates a display manager and a window manager within the same process.

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Xfce

Xfce (pronounced as four individual letters) is a free and open-source desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux, Solaris, and BSD.

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Ximian Desktop

Ximian Desktop was a GNOME-based desktop environment from Ximian.

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Xinerama

Xinerama is an extension to the X Window System that enables X applications and window managers to use two or more physical displays as one large virtual display.

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Xito

Xito is a Java based portable desktop environment.

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XMMS2

XMMS2 (X-platform Music Multiplexing System 2) is a new generation of the XMMS audio player.

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Xubuntu

Xubuntu is a Canonical Ltd.–recognized, community-maintained derivative of the Ubuntu operating system.

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Xynth

Xynth is an embedded windowing system, released under LGPL, developed for systems with low resources, is an alternative for X Window System.

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Yahoo! Widgets

Yahoo Widgets was a free application platform for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, specifically Windows XP, Vista and Win 7.

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YouOS

YouOS was a web desktop and web integrated development environment, developed by WebShaka until June 2008.

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ZeroPC

ZeroPC was a commercial webtop developed by ZeroDesktop, Inc. located in San Mateo, California.

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Zinstall XP7

Zinstall XP7 is a migration software product, developed by Zinstall, Inc., that migrates personal computer (PC)s to Windows 7 while keeping applications, settings and data intact.

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Zune (widget toolkit)

Zune is an object-oriented GUI toolkit which is part of the AROS (AROS Research Operating System) project and nearly a clone, at both an API and look and feel level, of Magic User Interface (MUI), a well-known Amiga shareware product by Stefan Stuntz.

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.hack (video game series)

.hack is a series of single-player action role-playing video games developed for the PlayStation 2 console by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai.

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.hack//G.U.

.hack//G.U. is a series of single-player action role-playing games for the, developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco Games.

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1-800 Contacts

1-800 Contacts Inc. is an American contact lens retailer based in Draper, Utah.

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1-800 Contacts, Inc. v. WhenU.com, Inc.

1-800 CONTACTS v. WhenU.com was a legal dispute beginning in 2002 over pop-up advertisements.

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9wm

9wm is an open source stacking window manager for X11, written by David Hogan (dhog) in 1994 to emulate the Plan 9 Second Edition window manager, 8½.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment

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