Comments on: Xfce 4.8 released https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/18/xfce-48-released/ Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:42:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Virgil Samms https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/18/xfce-48-released/#comment-498169 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:42:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/18/xfce-48-released/#comment-498169 I have been using Fedora for years. This is because it is better geared for a managed environment, as opposed to a single user environment. As you know, Fedora is the “bleeding edge” development bed for Red Hat. They issue a new release twice per year. That’s where they introduce all the newest bugs. Users report the bugs, but frequently the fixes for the bugs don’t get churned into the distribution pipeline until the next release. At which time of course, there is a new crop of bugs.

]]> By: Lassi Hippeläinen https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/18/xfce-48-released/#comment-498168 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:12:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/18/xfce-48-released/#comment-498168 Probably the lightest unofficial version of Ubuntu was Crunchbang (Openbox in lieu of Gnome), but recently they abandoned even Ubuntu. Now #! is Debian+Openbox, and the updates are rolling, not biannual.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchbang

I am toying with the idea of skipping the “desktop” thing entirely and going with a simple window manager and nothing more on my laptop.
You are not alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_OS

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/18/xfce-48-released/#comment-498167 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:05:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/18/xfce-48-released/#comment-498167 The review I mention in Linux Journal says the same thing about LXDE.

Regarding non-linux Distro: I’m getting a new scanner. I intend to match the scanner with a distro to get maximum functionality. It happens that this scanner is heavily tested under Fedora, so I may go that way, but I’ll experiment a bit. It’s in the mail.

]]> By: MattR https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/18/xfce-48-released/#comment-498166 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:20:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/18/xfce-48-released/#comment-498166 I found the same thing, running Xubuntu on an old laptop (226MB of RAM). Better solution for older hardware is Lubuntu which uses LXDE. It’s not an officially recognised distro yet (non-Canonical if you’ll pardon the pun) but they’re working on getting official endorsement.

Having said that, the latest XFCE does look kinda nice; might have to run up a VM and try it out.

Oh, did you ever decide on a non-Ubuntu distro to try? I’m still enjoying Sabayon.

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