Desktop environments

Xfce (pronounced as four individual letters) is a free and open-source desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux, Solaris, and BSD.

Unity is a graphical shell for the GNOME desktop environment developed by Canonical Ltd.

Java Desktop System, briefly known as OpenSolaris Desktop, is a desktop environment developed first by Sun Microsystems and then by Oracle Corporation after the 2010 Oracle acquisition of Sun.

In computing, a shell is a user interface for access to an operating system's services.

The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit.

EDE or Equinox Desktop Environment is a small desktop environment that is meant to be simple and fast.

In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system, which share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphical shell.

OpenWindows was a desktop environment for Sun Microsystems workstations which combined SunView, NeWS, and X Window System protocols.

The ROX Desktop is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System.

RISC OS /rɪskoʊˈɛs/ is a computer operating system originally designed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England.

NeWS (Network extensible Window System) is a discontinued windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid-1980s.

Razor-qt is a now defunct free desktop environment for personal computers.

Visual User Environment (VUE or HP-VUE) was Hewlett-Packard's Desktop environment for the X Window System, intended for use on Unix workstations.

The Graphical Environment Manager (GEM) was an operating environment created by Digital Research, Inc.

Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (OPIE) is an open source graphical user interface for PDAs and other devices running Linux.

SunView (Sun Visual Integrated Environment for Workstations, originally SunTools) was a windowing system from Sun Microsystems developed in the early 1980s.

MyColors is a digital distribution platform for themes developed by Stardock.

K Desktop Environment 1 was the inaugural series of releases of the K Desktop Environment.

K Desktop Environment 2 was the second series of releases of the K Desktop Environment.

At Ease was an alternative to the Macintosh desktop developed by Apple Computer in the early 1990s for the classic Mac OS.

Object Desktop (OD; previously the Object Desktop Network or ODNT) is an online software subscription service created by Stardock for OS/2 and relaunched for Windows in 1997.

Workbench is the graphical file manager of AmigaOS developed by Commodore International for their Amiga line of computers.

A desktop environment is a collection of software designed to give functionality and a certain look and feel to an operating system.

Qimo 4 Kids (pronounced "kim-oh", as in "eskimo") is a child-friendly desktop environment built entirely with free software.