Desktop EnvironmentsBy Hind Al Falasi

Desktop Environment is a set of programs that control the screen and

provide small utility programs to perform tasks such as manage files.

Common Desktop Environments:

KDE

it’s the default desktop environment for Mandriva and SUSE.

GNOME (The GNU Network Object Model Environment )

Fedora and Debian use it as a default desktop environment.

LXDE (The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment)

it works well on old or modest computers.

Unity

the publisher of the Ubuntu distribution.

Xfce it aims to consume fewer system

resources than most other desktop environments.

Roll-Your-Own

all of the components need to be accessible from some sort of menu

system.