Rox Desktop

clipped from www.linux.com ROX Desktop provides light, quirky alternative to GNOME and KDE The ROX Desktop is a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE built around the ROX-Filer file manager. The project's name is an abbreviation of "RISC OS on X." The ROX Desktop's performance is reminiscent of IceWM, and it's noticeably faster opening programs than GNOME or KDE. However, its speed comes at the expense of a needlessly redundant default configuration, and some users may balk at some of the assumptions its design makes about how they prefer to work. Unlike GNOME and KDE, the ROX Desktop does not seemed designed to give users much choice about how they work. Rather, it offers an idiosyncratic set of choices for users to abide by. For this reason, what you think of the ROX Desktop will likely depend on how closely these choices mirror your own preferences.