Moksha desktop environment

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Moksha desktop environment

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http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/enlightenme ... ssie-70307

Dog-based OS have a lot of desktop environments to choose from. Fredx has made available mklive-stretch -gui script from which you can choose no less than 6 desktop environments.

Introducing Moksha :
Moksha is a fork of the Enlightenment DR17 desktop.

Moksha is a continuation of the Enlightenment 17 desktop. It consists of the back porting of bug fixes and features from future Enlightenment releases, as well as the removal of half finished / broken things E17 contained.

Moksha is known as a Window Manager, but provides most of the functionality found in much more resource-hungry Desktop Environments. You could say that it straddles the line between a Window Manager and a Desktop Environment.

In the Fall of 2010, the lead-developer, Jeff Hoogland, began working on the idea of a new Linux distribution utilizing a current and relatively stable version of a desktop, built on the rock-solid EFL foundation, as the Window Manager, with an Ubuntu Long Term Support release as its base.

Minimalism – A default install of Moksha will run in less than 100 MB of RAM. That is FAR less than most modern Window Managers, not to mention complete Desktop Environments. But it doesn’t come at the expense of great looks or functionality. Moksha is one of the most elegant Window Managers available, and is highly extensible through the use of Modules. Which brings us to the second ideal …
User Choice – Moksha is likely the most highly configurable Window Manager in existence, so you can make your system look and work the way you want.


Moksha is the brainchild of Bodhi Linux developer, so to better understand it, i refer you to the guide here : http://www.bodhilinux.com/w/enlightenment-guide/

Installing Moksha :
Install the build dependencies for EFL / Elementary / Moksha by running the following (very long) command:
apt-get install git doxygen pkg-config libglib2.0-dev libssl-dev libpng12-dev libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev libfontconfig1-dev libluajit-5.1-dev libsndfile1-dev libpulse-dev libbullet-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev automake build-essential libjpeg-dev libx11-dev autopoint debhelper dh-autoreconf gettext intltool-debian libasound2-dev libblkid-dev libc-ares-dev libc-ares2 libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgmp-dev .... it doesn't end here.

Pelo

Puppy Linux Moksha available.

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Puppy Linux Moksha available. Contact s-kami in our forum or Hungarian forum

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