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Salix Live Xfce 13.37 RC2 Fixes Persistence Options

The Salix OS Team has announced yesterday, January 2nd, that a second Released Candidate of the upcoming Salix OS Xfce Live 13.37 distro is now available for download. The development team hopes this will be the last Release Candidate for Salix OS Xfce Live 13.37, before the final version.A lot of fixes were imp...

3 January 2012
10:02 GMT

Siduction 11.1 RC Has KDE SC, XFCE and LXDE

Siduction 2011.1 is a new Linux distribution announced today which ships with three desktop environments, KDE SC, XFCE and LXDE, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Siduction 2011.1 RC is based on Debian Sid from 2011-12-21, over which there have been added a lot of other packages and scripts. All Siduction edi...

22 December 2011
10:30 GMT

Linus Torvalds Drops Gnome 3 for Xfce, Calls It 'Crazy'

Gnome 3 doesn't have too many fans among power users and when the father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, speaks out against Gnome 3 and switches to Xfce, it doesn't look good. Linus believes that Gnome 3 has serious usability issues. "I used to be upset when gnome developers decided it was 'too complicate...

4 August 2011
04:36 GMT

Foresight Linux 2.5.0 Comes with GNOME, KDE and XFCE

Foresight Linux 2.5.0 is now available for download. The latest release of the Linux distro features three desktop environments to choose from, the three most popular Linux desktops, as opposed to just GNOME as before.Given that Foresight was created mostly to showcase GNOME, it's a big change of direction for t...

28 March 2011
09:00 GMT

XFCE 4.8.0 Available for Download Now

XFCE fills a particular niche for Linux users, a lightweight desktop environment built entirely on GTK2. It's been two years from the last major release, but XFCE 4.8 is finally here to the delight of fans everywhere. The latest version brings quite a few new features, both user facing as well as under the hood,...

17 January 2011
13:16 GMT

CrunchBang Linux 10 Alpha 2 Is Based on Debian Squeeze

Yesterday evening, Philip Newborough announced the immediate availability for testing of the second Alpha release of the upcoming CrunchBang Linux 10 distribution. Dubbed Statler, the freshly cooked CrunchBang Linux 10 Alpha 2 build is now based on the Debian Squeeze operating system and, in sync with its repositorie...

27 June 2010
12:57 GMT

Parole Media Player 0.2.0.2 Review

Everything is moving online these days, it seems, and entertainment is no different. With YouTube, Hulu, Netflix and plenty of other sites and services to choose from, it might seem that the days of actually owning a movie are gone. But we're not quite there yet, there's still a place for DVDs and you'...

10 April 2010
08:49 GMT

Linux Mint 8 Xfce and LXDE Editions Released

Clement Lefebvre and the Linux Mint community are once again proud to announce the immediate availability of the final versions for the Linux Mint 8 Xfce Community Edition and Linux Mint 8 LXDE Community Edition operating systems. Being based on the main Helena release, the new editions are powered by Linux kernel 2....

1 April 2010
04:45 GMT

First Alpha of Dreamlinux 4.0 XFCE Edition Released

The Dreamlinux team announced earlier today (October 13th) the immediate availability of the alpha version of the upcoming Dreamlinux 4.0 XFCE Linux distribution. This Xfce edition of the Dreamlinux operating system is a new project which tries to combine the good looks of the main Dreamlinux distribution with the sp...

13 October 2009
10:30 GMT

Calculate Linux Desktop 9.9 Has KDE 4.3.1

Alexander Tratsevskiy proudly announced on September 28th the immediate availability of the Calculate Linux Desktop 9.9 KDE and XFCE distribution. Being based on Gentoo Linux, Calculate Linux Desktop 9.9 is now powered by Linux Kernel 2.6.30.5 and X.Org 7.4, it is built on top of the KDE 4.3.1 desktop environment and...

29 September 2009
08:41 GMT

SAM Linux 2009, the Last Release Based on PCLinuxOS

A member of the SAM Linux Team announced a few hours ago the release of SAM Linux 2009. This distribution is based on PCLinuxOS 2009.1 and is fully compatible with its packages, but later releases will be based on another distribution, unspecified at this moment. SAM Linux 2009 features the Linux kernel version 2.6....

10 August 2009
16:31 GMT

Calculate Linux Desktop 9.6 with Xfce 4.6.1

A week ago, Alexander Tratsevskiy announced the immediate availability of the Calculate Linux Desktop 9.6 KDE Live DVD Linux distribution. Today, he is proud to present a new edition of its Gentoo-based Linux distribution, called Calculate Linux Xfce 9.6. Having the same main components as the main edition of Calcula...

5 June 2009
05:08 GMT

Dreamlinux 3.5 Launched

The Dreamlinux team announced, on the 28th of February, the release of Dreamlinux 3.5. Based on the latest stable Debian 5.0 (Lenny), this version focuses mainly on portable devices, having out-of-the box wireless drivers and special installs for netbooks, notebooks or USB flash drives. Custom scripts and application...

2 March 2009
02:34 GMT

Xfce 4.6.0 Has Finally Arrived

One of the most popular lightweight alternatives to other Linux desktop environments, Xfce, reached, after more than two years of hard work, version 4.6.0. Given the delay between releases, this is, of course, a major overhaul bringing many new features and improving on the existing ones. The revamped Xfdesktop fin...

27 February 2009
15:11 GMT

Just Released: Linux Mint 6 XFCE CE

Clement Lefebvre, lead developer for Linux Mint, announced today the release of Linux Mint 6 (Felicia) XFCE Community Edition. Based on Xubuntu 8.10, this new version brings a brand new, much improved, Software Manager, XFCE 4.4.2, Linux kernel 2.6.27 and a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements. The new Sof...

24 February 2009
13:01 GMT

Linux Mint 5 XFCE Edition Is Out

Today is a happy day for Linux Mint fans as the developers of one of the most popular Linux distributions decided to please us with yet another release. I am speaking about Linux Mint 5 Elyssa XFCE, which introduces various improvements in performance,  appearance and desktop configuration.Some of the tools have...

8 September 2008
12:10 GMT

Dreamlinux 3.0 Beta 3 Testdrive

I know many of you dream of a Linux distribution that combines Mac OS X's looks with Linux's power. Now, that dream becomes reality with Dreamlinux, a distribution that has under the hood Debian components and pleases the eye of the user with Mac-ish eye candy. Dreamlinux is a Brazilian distribution that ca...

18 February 2008
08:46 GMT

Fedora 8 Xfce Spin Now Available

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 ...

13 February 2008
05:53 GMT

Shift Linux 0.6.2 Available

Barney Tormey has announced the release of Shift Linux 0.6.2 a few days ago. This new release comes in three flavors: Shift Linux 0.6.2 Gnome, Shift Linux 0.6.2 KDE4 and Shift Linux 0.6.2 Lite - specially designed for older computers.Shift Linux Lite will bring two less resource-hungry desktop managers - XFCE 4 and F...

30 January 2008
04:36 GMT

Zenwalk 5.0 Just Released

Jean-Philippe Guillemin, the lead developer of Zenwalk, has announced the release of Zenwalk Linux 5.0. This version is the first to use the Freedesktop HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer - system.Zenwalk Linux 5.0 comes equipped with the 2.6.23.12 Linux kernel and uses the same XFCE 4.4.2. Thanks to the Freedesktop HA...

18 January 2008
10:56 GMT

Xfce 4.4.2 Released

Xfce 4.4.2, the second maintenance release in the 4.4 stable series, is now available. This version focuses mainly on fixing bugs and updating translations.Thunar, the file manager included in Xfce, has reached a newer version also, 0.9.0. This brings with it the following fixes, additions and much more: Do not disp...

3 December 2007
10:54 GMT

Linux Mint 4.0 XFCE Beta Released

Linux Mint community has just released the first beta version of Linux Mint 4.0, codenamed Daryna, XFCE Edition. Being based on Celena XFCE CE and compatible with the Ubuntu Gutsy repositories, Daryna brings many new software and tools, such as:■ Linux kernel 2.6.22■ XFCE CE 4.4.1■ OpenOffice.org...

2 November 2007
07:41 GMT

Linux Mint 3.0 Xfce Available Now

The Linux Mint Community is proud to present a new release of the Linux Mint distribution, this time based on the light and powerful XFCE desktop environment: "This is the first XFCE release of Linux Mint. It is made by and for the Linux Mint Community and it is maintained by Merlwiz79." - says the Linux Mint team. L...

8 August 2007
02:30 GMT


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