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The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. Maintained by an international community of developers, it comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXDE uses less CPU and less RAM than other environments. It is especially designed for cloud computers with low hardware specifications, such as netbooks, mobile devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers. LXDE can be installed on many Linux distributions including Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. It is the standard for Knoppix and lubuntu. LXDE also runs on OpenSolaris and BSD. LXDE provides a fast desktop experience; connecting easily with applications in the cloud. LXDE supports a wealth of programs that can be installed locally with Linux systems. The source code of LXDE is licensed partly under the terms of the GNU General Public License and partly under the LGPL.

Join the LXDE community and become part of an exciting project. Become a developer, a documentation writer, translator, designer, package maintainer, tester, user supporter or blogger. Organize events and present LXDE. Join and help us to develop the fastest and most energy efficient system and get it out to everyone. Get involved by joining our developer and contributor mailing lists. Start at our Sourceforge project page and test and develop LXDE components. You can help by extending and translating the documentation on the LXDE Wiki or support users in the LXDE Forum. Or become a LXDE interface or fashion designer. Talk to us on our IRC channel and see the "Join the LXDE Community" page for more ideas to show off your creativity. We are looking forward to keeping in touch with you.

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