Free desktop environments software for linux

Equinox Desktop Environment (shortly EDE) is small desktop environment, builted to be simple and fast.
Comparing to other desktop environments, EDE is much faster and smaller in memory space (EDEs window manager use less memory than xterm).
The word "equinox" comes from the Latin for "equal night". The equinoxes in March and September are the two occasions each year when the day and the night are of equal duration.
For measuring the length of a day, sunrise is the moment when the sun is half-above the horizon and sunset is the moment when the sun is half-under the horizon. Using this definition, the length of the day (and the night) is precisely 12 hours at an equinox.
Main features:
- desktop with icons and wallpaper;
- Xft font anti-aliasing;
- taskbar with configurable menu, cpu status, easy keyboard switching;
- theming;
- localization;
Graphical front-end for:
- xscreensaver configuration;
- software installation (.rpm, .deb, .tgz);
- time and time-zone configuration;
- fast file and directory serch utility;

Techisa Desktop Environment is a lightweight alternative desktop environment developed using Qt.
The projects goal is to provide users with a comfortable environment using as few resources as possible. Only a Brazillian Portuguese translation is currently available.
Enhancements:
- Better support for KDE desktop files.
- Improved recognition of KDM/GDM sessions.
- New icon search paths.
- Enhancements to the TDE menu.
- Better handling of links and properties.
- TDESU shows correct error codes.
- Thumbnails.
- A tree view in the file browser. tdeopen accepts new parameters: [file name] directly executes a file or associated application, and -f [source] [destination] shows a popup allowing user to copy, move, or link.

3D-Desktop is an OpenGL program for switching virtual desktops in a seamless 3-dimensional manner on Linux. The current desktop is mapped into a fullscreen 3D environment where you may choose other screens. Several different visualization modes are available.

The transition from working desktop to fullscreen 3D environment is seamless. In other words when the pager activates you see your current desktop appear to zoom out to a point in space where you can see your other virtual desktops allowing you to select another. The best way to understand is to try it out and get the full effect!

Enfold Desktop is an add-on that makes the users of your content management system more productive.
Enfold Desktop makes the users of your content management system more productive by letting them work with Plone in the familiar Microsoft Windows environment.
Main features:
- Add multiple files to Plone in one drag-and-drop action
- Open a Plone content item for editing in the program of your choice, such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Dreamweaver
- Lock content automatically during editing and check it back into Plone when youre done
With Enfold Desktop, you can do all these tasks without ever opening a Web browser.
Evaluate Enfold Desktop risk-free. You can download it and use it on up to five computers free of charge.

Java 2SE technology readily harnesses the power of the network because it is both a programming language and a selection of specialized platforms.
As such, it standardizes the development and deployment of the kind of secure, portable, reliable, and scalable applications required by the networked economy.
Because the Internet and World Wide Web play a major role in new business development, consistent and widely supported standards are critical to growth and success.
The Java programming language lets you write powerful, enterprise-worthy programs that run in the browser, from the desktop, on a server, or on a consumer device. Java programs are run on -- interpreted by -- another program called the Java Virtual Machine (Java VM).
Rather than running directly on the native operating system, the program is interpreted by the Java VM for the native operating system. This means that any computer system with the Java VM installed can run a Java program regardless of the computer system on which the application was originally developed.
The Java platform is a software-only platform that runs on top of other hardware-based platforms. Because hardware-based platforms vary in their storage, memory, network connection, and computing power capabilities, specialized Java platforms are available to address applications development for and deployment to those different environments.
Java technology has grown to include the portfolio of specialized platforms listed below. Each platform is based on a Java VM that has been ported to the target hardware environment. This means, for example, in the case of Desktop Java, desktop applications written in the Java programming language can run on any Java VM-enabled desktop without modification.
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), provides an environment for Core Java and Desktop Java applications development, and is the basis for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Java Web Services technologies. It has the compiler, tools, runtimes, and Java APIs that let you write, test, deploy, and run applets and applications.
Enhancements:
- Olson time zone data was updated to version 2007e.
- Solaris-specific I/O interruption in response to thread interruption can now be switched off.
- Many bugs were fixed.

The Sun Java Desktop System is a secure, comprehensive, and affordable enterprise desktop software solution that combines the best of open source innovation with significant contributions from Sun.
Initially provided with a Linux OS, Java Desktop System is now also integrated with the Solaris 10 Operating System. As a result, Sun customers have the option of deploying the same desktop environment on Sun workstations, Sun Ray thin clients, as well as a broad range of non-Sun notebook and desktop systems with standard x86-based architectures.
Main features:
End user features:
- Automated software updates and patching, including dependency checking/analysis to ensure systems are secure and up-to-date.
- Local and remote management capabilities provide update scheduling and activity log access.
- Interoperability with centralized software management tools.
- Desktop applications are tightly integrated allowing for drag and drop and copy/paste of text, graphics and other elements between applications.
- Universal printer selection of available printers on network, including printers available on Windows networks.
- Single point of entry for directory and file management and networked computers.
- Direct access to content in data and files by single-click application launch for files contained in email, web pages and file manager.
- Intuitive, easy to use, single install mechanism which ensures users can quickly get productive.
- Easy to learn and use, especially for traditional MS Windows users. Featuring:
- Familiar desktop themes for file management and desktop configuration
- Standard keyboard short cut conventions
- Direct access to files and servers using the "Documents" and "Network Places" directories
- Familiar access to networked computers from single "Network Places" directory
- Full product documentation including Quick Start User Guide and other reference documentation.
- Includes selection of great productivity tools including office suite, browser, email/calendar, instant messaging, project management, drawing and video conferencing applications.
- Multimedia-ready with essential video and audio players plus a sound recorder. Featuring Java Media Player with support for MP3 playback and a CD Player.
- Users can access data stored in office productivity files of Microsoft users and printers connected to existing Windows networks.
- Full interoperability with Microsoft Office files.
- Interoperability with POP3, LDAP, SMTP mail servers.
Administrator features:
- Java Desktop System Configuration Manager allows system administrators to define groups of users and the policies for access rights and settings.
- Fine grained control of employee access rights and privileges.
- Remote image deployment to manage a defined set of packages or system images for rapid setup and provisioning of desktops and deploy on multiple systems simultaneously.
- Centralized package management enabling volume software push, patching, updating multiple desktops.
- Software dependency checking and analysis to identify patch and package dependencies and deploy correct set of software.
- Inventory collection of desktop details, OS, hardware profiles and more.
- Performance Monitoring of deployed desktop environments.
- Use a collection of interconnected computers as a unified computing resource.
- Ability for administrator to view and interact with users desktop display to help, guide and troubleshoot.
Developer features:
- Java Studio Standard is a powerful yet intuitive Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java, providing a comprehensive set of features and functionality.
- NetBeans IDE 3.6 delivers tightly integrated deployment and debugging of web applications on Apache Tomcat 5 and the Sun Java System Application Server, Platform Edition 8.
- J2SE hosts the Linux GTK+ look and feel support in JFC/Swing enables Java applets and applications to be written so they look just like native Linux apps on JDS.

Underground Desktop is a GNU/Linux distribution targeted to the desktop user, featuring a graphical installation (using Anaconda for Debian by Progeny), and is based on Debian unstable.
Main features:
Ease of installation.
- The graphical installer will guide you through the installation in a simple and effective way.
Debian based.
- Underground Desktop is based on Debian unstable, so you can install bleeding edge software easily.
Fast.
- The desktop environment, KDE, is compiled with optimizations for modern processors.
- The linux kernel is optimized in order to improve desktop performance.
KDE powered.
- KDE is the most advanced desktop environment in the linux world.
- We include a recent release of KDE.

Kapitalist project is a Monopoly-like board game for 2-8 players. Walk around the board, buy properties, receive rent from your competitors, try to get monopolies to build houses and hotels on them and finally be the richest on the board.

Kapitalist is server-based (the server called capitalist) and is written for KDE 2.x. Nevertheless it should also work fine with other desktop environments provided you have the KDE 2.x/Qt 2.x libraries installed.