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| [[Cinnamon_(software)|Cinnamon]] || 2011
| 4.6.2 <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/blob/master/debian/changelog |title=cinnamon/changelog 2019at master |website=www.github.com |access-07date=2020-2506-06}}</ref>|| 2020-05-27<ref name=":0"/> || C, JavaScript, Python || GTK+ || GPL || Forked from GNOME 3 with the intent to create a traditional desktop built on modern technologies.
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| [[Deepin#DDE|Deepin Desktop Environment]] (DDE) || 2015
| || 2019-07-19 || C++ || Qt || GPL || The desktop environment of Linux deepinDeepin.
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| [[Enlightenment (software)|Enlightenment]] (E) || 1997
| 0.2224.41<ref name=":01">{{Cite web |url=https://www.enlightenment.org/news/e0e24.22.4_release1 |title=Enlightenment DR 0.2224.41 Release |website=www.enlightenment.org |access-date=20192020-0806-0506}}</ref>|| 20182020-0805-2831<ref name=":01" /> || C || EFL || BSD license || Complete environment including centralized configuration of most settings.
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| [[Equinox Desktop Environment]] (EDE) || 2003-01-06
| 2.1 <ref name=":2">{{Cite web |url=https://sourceforge.net/p/ede/news/2014/06/ede-21-released/ |title=EDE / News: EDE 2.1 released |website=www.sourceforge.net |access-date=2020-06-06}}</ref> || 2014-06-2122<ref name=":2" /> || C++ || FLTK || GPL, LGPL || Seldom used environment, has seen little activity in recent years.
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| [[Étoilé]] || 2006-02-22
| 0.4.2 || 2012-04-11 || Objective-C || GNUstep || MIT, BSD license || Has seen little activity for several years, the last journal entry having been in 2014.
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| [[GNOME]] || 1999-03-03
| 3.36<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |url=https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/03/gnome-3-36-released/ |title=GNOME 3.36 Released – GNOME |language=en |access-date=2020-04-10}}</ref>|| 2020-03-11<ref name=":13" />|| C, C++, Vala, Python, JavaScript || GTK+ || GPL, LGPL || GNOME is one of the most popular environments. Major design changes with the 3.0 release sparked the creation of Cinnamon (a fork of GNOME 3), Unity (an alternative Gnome Desktop Session to GNOME Shell) and MATE (a fork of GNOME 2).
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| [[KDE Plasma 5]] (KDE5, KDE Plasma Workspaces, formerly K Desktop Environment or simply KDE) || 1998-07-12
| 5.1618<ref name=":24">{{Cite web |url=https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.1618.0.php |title=KDE Plasma 5.1618: NowMore SmootherConvenient and Morewith FunLong Term Stability |website=KDE.org |language=en |access-date=20192020-0806-0506}}</ref>|| 20192020-0602-11<ref name=":24" />|| C++, QML || Qt || LGPL || KDE has a strong and enthusiastic following. The project is largely community-centric, and encompass many other applications and frameworks, many built specifically for KDE.
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| [[LXDE]] (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) || 2006
| 0.10.0<ref name=":35">{{Cite web |url=https://blog.lxde.org/2019/03/23/lxpanel-0-10-0-and-some-others/ |title=LXPanel 0.10.0 and some others… |last=LStranger |date=2019-03-23 |website=LXDE Blog |language=en-US |access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref>|| 2019-03-23<ref name=":35" />|| C || GTK+ || GPL, LGPL || LXDE, with its low resource footprint, is a favorite among developers of lighter-weight Linux distributions. Development has largely moved to LXQt, but it is still maintained.
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| [[LXQt]] || 2014-05-07
| 0.15.0<ref name=":46">{{Cite web |url=https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/releases/tag/0.15.0 |title=Release 0.15.0 |access-date=2020-05-03}}</ref>|| 2020-04-24<ref name=":46" /> || C, C++ || Qt || GPL, LGPL || Formed by a merger of LXDE-Qt and Razor-qt, this is a lightweight Qt-based desktop environment.
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| [[MATE_(software)|MATE]] || 2011-08-19
| 1.2224<ref name=":57">{{Cite web |url=https://mate-desktop.org/blog/20192020-0302-1810-mate-1-2224-released/ |title=MATE 1.2224 released |last=KarehUlbrich |first=VictorWolfgang |date=20192020-0302-1810 |website=MATE |language=en |access-date=20192020-0806-0506}}</ref>|| 2019-0302-1810<ref name=":57" />|| C, C++, Python || GTK+ || LGPL, GPL || Revival and continuation of GNOME 2 environment after the release of GNOME 3. In recent releases, it has been ported to GTK+ 3, demonstrating the progress of the project.
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| [[Elementary OS#Pantheon desktop environment|Pantheon]]|| 2011
| || 2018-10-16 || Vala || GTK+ || GPL || The desktop environment of elementary OS.
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| [[Razor-qt]] || 2010
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| [[Trinity Desktop Environment]] (TDE) || 2010-04-29
| R14.0.8 <ref name=":8">{{Cite web |url=https://www.trinitydesktop.org/newsentry.php?entry=2020.04.29 |title=Trinity 2018News |website=www.trinitydesktop.org |access-08date=2020-1806-06}}</ref> || 2020-04-29<ref name=":8" /> || C++ || Qt || GPL (and other) || forked from KDE 3.x
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| [[Unity_(user_interface)|Unity]] || 2010-06-09
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| [[Xfce]] || 1996
| 4.14<ref name=":69">{{Cite web |url=https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1565568000 |title=News – Xfce 4.12 released – Xfce 4.10 released – Xfce 4.10pre2 released – Xfce 4.10pre1 released – Xfce 4.8 released – Xfce 4.8pre3 released – Xfce 4.8pre2 released – Xfce 4.8pre1 released – Xfce 4.6.2 released – Xfce 4.6.1 released – Xfce 4.6.014 released – Xfce|website=xfce.org|access-date=20192020-0806-0506}}</ref>|| 2020-01-12<ref name=":69" />|| C || GTK+ || GPL, LGPL, BSD license || XFCE is often used in lightweight distributions targeting lower-end hardware.
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