Xfce 4.6.0

It's out now. It's really amazing to see how much good progress this light-weight DE has made in recent times. The devs have put some really good efforts to introduce the much needed and desired features in this little yet nifty DE.

http://www.xfce.org/about/tour

looks very nice, might have to give it a try.

XFCE is pretty cool. Most of the Puppy Linux stuff runs with it. If you wanna give it a run, I would suggest finding a Puppy Linux "puplet" that piques your interest and run with it. Wanna talk about an easy install? Puppy Linux, I can turn a system around from initial live cd boot to installed in under 10 minutes. They are fun to play with. If you have a spare HDD around that you aren't doing anything with, load it on there.

XFCE is pretty cool. Most of the Puppy Linux stuff runs with it. If you wanna give it a run, I would suggest finding a Puppy Linux "puplet" that piques your interest and run with it. Wanna talk about an easy install? Puppy Linux, I can turn a system around from initial live cd boot to installed in under 10 minutes. They are fun to play with. If you have a spare HDD around that you aren't doing anything with, load it on there.

I have been a true fan of Puppy since some time now. The default Puppy release uses JWM as it's DE, but there might be pupplets with Xfce out there, as you say.

Anyway, I think the best way to test an Xfce release is to do that through Zenwalk. These guys really do good job in that area.

XFCE is pretty cool. Most of the Puppy Linux stuff runs with it. If you wanna give it a run, I would suggest finding a Puppy Linux "puplet" that piques your interest and run with it. Wanna talk about an easy install? Puppy Linux, I can turn a system around from initial live cd boot to installed in under 10 minutes. They are fun to play with. If you have a spare HDD around that you aren't doing anything with, load it on there.

I have been a true fan of Puppy since some time now. The default Puppy release uses JWM as it's DE, but there might be pupplets with Xfce out there, as you say.

Anyway, I think the best way to test an Xfce release is to do that through Zenwalk. These guys really do good job in that area.

That is true too. I have tried Zenwalk as well...that seems like a blur to me....can't remember why I moved off of it....probably had a good reason.....maybe.....maybe I was bored.....just needed another adventure...so many OS's to try so few extra harddrives....you know how it is.

That is true too. I have tried Zenwalk as well...that seems like a blur to me....can't remember why I moved off of it....probably had a good reason.....maybe.....maybe I was bored.....just needed another adventure...so many OS's to try so few extra harddrives....you know how it is.

And that's where the magic of Live CDs plays its part.

And as just we were talking about Zenwalk, they came up with a brand new release containing Xfce 4.6:
http://www.zenwalk.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=90

Nice!

And as just we were talking about Zenwalk, they came up with a brand new release containing Xfce 4.6:
http://www.zenwalk.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=90

Nice!

Distrowatch had an article back in 2-28-09:

zenwalk     Jean-Philippe Guillemin has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Zenwalk Linux 6.0, a Slackware-based desktop distribution featuring the newly released Xfce 4.6 desktop: "Zenwalk 6.0 RC1 is available. Considering the size of the changelog, which probably makes it impossible to upgrade directly from Zenwalk 5.2 (due to the number of new packages and features), we decided that the version number should jump to 6.0. Here's a list of the most important changes: Linux kernel 2.6.28.7 with gspca (supports many USB webcams); Xfce 4.6; faster boot (tunned init scripts, with realtime I/O scheduler); PAM authentication has been added to the system; wicd is becoming the main network configuration tool; OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 replaces GNOME Office; improved suspend and hibernate, with Xfce power manager; new Netpkg with orphan dependencies and offline operation support; new artwork...."


Kinda cool if you ask me

Rich

ummm not sure I understand what's cool?

ummm not sure I understand what's cool?

"Considering the size of the changelog, which probably makes it impossible..."

That is funny, Chris.

I know I'm just being stupid

I know I'm just being stupid

Nah, it can happen sometimes when one is very busy with the office work.

 

Cool and funny. Cool because when you figure that here is a system that the group looked at and thought; "How can we make it better?" and tweaked this and fixed that and made it the way they wanted it to be. That is cool to me. Funny because LOL they went a whole vers number up to showcase all the goodies.

Rich