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XFce Desktop 4 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the minimalist-approaches dept.

BladeMelbourne writes "After thorough RC testing, version 4.0 of my favourite 'lite' desktop environment has been released. Sporting purty eye candy, XFce is leaps and bounds ahead of the legacy XFce 3.8.18 release, whilst retaining it's performance. Release notes are available, as well as binary and source packages. Bring that PII back to life!" While it may not have all the bells and whistles, it's pretty clean looking.

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  1. Any experience with this on a slow computer ? by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How funny, just last week I was wondering what desktop to put on an old P133 with 48mb of RAM. I stumbled on Xfce and I was going to try the 4.0 release candidates. Does anyone here use Xfce, and if so, how well would you expect it to run on this computer ? Any tips ?

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  2. Re:lighter is better by phraktyl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree. I'm a big supporter of light. I use PWM. All keyboard shortcuts. No cute GUI stuff. And very fast...

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  3. Re:lighter is better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Depends on what the box is like for me.

    My laptop? Blackbox. Small, sweet, sexy.

    My workstation? KDE3. My workstation has the beef to handle running it and anything else at the same time. Plus, there's the aesthetic advantage.

    I'm not talking about crazy eyecandy and sickening animated whatnots; rather, everything looks like it belongs on the desktop. I open up the mail program, it looks and feels the same as the browser. Et cetera.

    Can't really get that on 'light' wm's without all sorts of crazy hax0ring. (Or, installing a 'heavy' desktop environment and just using the apps.)