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Xfce 4.2.0 Released
kelnos copies and pastes: "The Xfce Team is pleased to announce the availability of Xfce 4.2.0, the next major version of the Xfce Desktop Environment and Development Framework for Unix and Unix-like platforms. Xfce 4.2.0 can be downloaded here. Xfce 4.2.0 includes new applications like a session manager and an application finder, a new and beautiful icon theme, support for bleeding-edge features (like the X.org Composite extension), usability and performance improvements, better support for multihead desktops, new and updated translations, additional themes, and various other improvements over the previous stable releases. See this page for a complete list of changes between Xfce 4.0 and Xfce 4.2. Furthermore, Xfce 4.2 is the first desktop environment to ship with an easy-to-use and platform-independent graphical installation wizard, which takes care of compiling and installing Xfce on your system. Visit the os-cillation installers website for download links and instructions. If you want to try Xfce 4.2.0 first, without installing anything on your system, you might want to try the Xfce Live Demo 0.2, provided by os-cillation, to discover the power and efficiency of Xfce."
Nobody cares about XFCE
Though there's not much happening in Greased Up Yoda Dolls this year.
...I'm interested. As a developer previously Windows based, but moving to Open Source, I'm reading up on GTK+ and QT and their related GUIs. I found this (useful info, though god knows why they put it in a pic very informative.
I want to stress here there are very significant changes here in our 4.2.0 release of Xfce.
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I know that sometimes Slashdotters complain that "every little release" of many Open Source applications is documented on the front page, but this one really deserves it.
Be sure to take a look at http://www.xfce.org/release_notes/4.2.0_changelog
We added so many great features and improvements that it's impossible to list them all here. Thanks to Slashdot editors for approving the post!
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Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a G5) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I'd like to take this opportunity to say why the Mac Mini is better than ANY other low cost Wintel machine:
- It uses 5 year old processor technology running at 1 ghz, but x86's that old aren't even in production anymore. Thank god for apple, if not for them I wouldn't be able to use outdated technology!!!11!!one
- It allows me to tell my friends I use a mac so they think i am rich... kind of the same way I drive a used 1984 BMW and just claim I've had it since it was new.
- Mac OS X is very stable. Safari only crashes about 10 times a day, simply from clicking a "search" button or trying to open a new page. And you don't have to worry about accidently deleting important files in Mac OS X, because if you try to browse your files in Finder, it will simply crash! Why doesn't windows offer that kind of protection?
- $499 is simply an amazing price, even though I *could* build a PC myself for half that price, but with 2x or 4x the power!
- Steve jobs is sexy.
- I'm a loser mac user.
Typical open source elitism. Somebody has a complaint about the software, and you think that only means that they need to be educated more. You open source butt groupies are all alike. Don't tell me why your software sucks, just make it so it doesnt suck anymore.
Retard.
loser.
real computers do not have icons on the desktop. you would die if you were force to use a real computer like a SUN or Silicon Graphics workstation wouldn't you?
"OMG!!!! I cant have all my documents and files scattered on my desktop!!! OMFG!!!! Please give me back my toy computer with that consumer operating system back.. I cant stand professional things! OMFG!!!! anyone have a paper bag??? I'm hyperventilating!!!! OMFG!!! OMFG!!!!"
pathetic.