14 DAY TRIAL // A brand-new, clean-looking Fedora 8 Xfce Spin has just been released. This is a bootable Fedora Live CD image, available for x86 and x86_64 architectures. The spin can be installed to hard disk or converted into boot USB images.
If you are an Xfce fan, this is truly ideal for you. Also, this is very useful for Fedora users who have low-end systems. As a bonus feature, the spin comes with all the updates for Fedora 8 released until yesterday. It includes Xfce 4.4.2, the latest version of the Xfce desktop environment. Along with it, Thunar file manager, Xarchiver, Orage calendar application, utilities and a large set of plugins are included. All the languages available at this moment in Fedora have also been integrated in this release, bringing you the possibility to use it in your native language.
The main highlights of the Fedora 8 Xfce Spin are:
￭ Firefox 2.0 Web browser ￭ Claws Mail ￭ Pidgin Instant Messenger ￭ Brasero CD/DVD Burner ￭ Tracker Desktop Search ￭ NetworkManager ￭ Totem With Browser Plugin ￭ Java With Browser Plugin ￭ Abiword Word Processor ￭ Gnumeric Spreadsheet Application ￭ Evince PDF viewer ￭ Geany Basic Integrated Development Environment(IDE) ￭ Galculator Scientific Calculator ￭ Gftp FTP Client ￭ Mirage Image Viewer
There are some small command line utilities that might turn out useful eventually:
￭ Mutt mail client ￭ Irssi Modular IRC Client ￭ Yum-utils: A collection of very useful yum utilities ￭ Powertop: Power Consumption Monitor For Laptop Users
As you may already know, Xfce is not one of the resource-hungry desktop environments. This Spin is ideal if you have an old computer and you want to "revive" it and put it back to use.
With the help of the kickstart files, you can create your own spin, depending on your needs. Someone thought about the Linux gamers, and even made a Fedora 8 Games Spin, which was released last year, in November.
Download Fedora 8 Xfce Spin right now from Softpedia!