A comparison of desktop memory usage, pitting KDE, Gnome, XFCE, and Plain XFree against each other in the battle for the smallest footprint.

Some examples of the Metisse window manager, now included in Mandriva’s fine Linux distribution. See the Metisse home for project details. It’s fun to watch the ideas fly by with the various new window managers. (via).

Richard Hipp gives a Google Talk about his SQLite engine. SQLite is a small, slick SQL engine that offers most of SQL92, a small footprint (single file), and great performance on desktops and handheld systems.

Wow. Online photo editing done right at Picnik. Web applications continue to improve. When is the desktop dead?

The Thunar File Manager looks like an OS X Finder for Gnome.

Havoc Pennington suggests that they stick with compiz compositing, instead of attempting it in Metacity. I’m happy if Metacity does 2d well, it’s simple and solid (no sense in buggering that up).

A real world user review of Parallels (and followup) running XP on a Duo Core iMac. A 20in iMac is looking better every day …

Nine things KDE should learn from Mac OS X, a contrast of the noisy (but configurable) popular Linux desktop environment and OS X.

Peter’s 40+ Suggestions for Better Desktop, an annotated (and intelligent) set of suggestions for Gnome-like desktops.

Xming is a free port of Xorg’s X11 client for Windows that doesn’t require Cygwin.