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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. How to pronounce? by ProfessionalCookie · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ex-Ef-See-Eee or is is Ex-Feese

    If it's the latter does that mean if you have lots of computers running XFce your running X-fces?

    BTW Nice logo.

  2. Re:Surprisingly little is said of XFce's use of Ja by kfg · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oh, I don't know. I think all too much is said about KDE's use of C++ and Gnome's use of C ( even though I'm a KDE user who dislikes coding in C++).

    I'm not sure why saying much about XFce's use of Java should get even more mention.

    What Sun's Java Desktop has to do with it I'm not sure. Since it's a Linux distro it goes pretty much without saying that any Linux pacakage you download and build on it will run.

    More to the point, since the only real reason to run Sun's Java Desktop (tm -- Don't call it Linux) is to use their version of Gnome I'm clueless as to why anyone would want to build XFCe for it, since you can also build it on any other Linux (sorry Sun, call my lawyer) distro.

    Unless maybe you've popped the C note for Sun's Java Desktop (See? I've repented already), realized you've made a terrible mistake, but are too obstinate in your investment to download Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian or Slack for free?

    KFG