XFce4 in Fedora Devel

Chuck Mead csm at lunar-linux.org
Tue Jan 13 05:34:14 CET 2004


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Biju Chacko wrote:
| On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:11:16 -0500, Chuck Mead wrote:
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|>Biju Chacko wrote:
|>| On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 08:15:14 -0700, The Matt wrote:
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|>|>Well, I just wanted to say I'm pleased to see XFce4 entering Fedora
|>|>Devel slowly but surely.   This will make reinstallations of my Fedora
|>|>boxes much easier come FC2.  And, finally, I'll be able to make a new
|>|>Fedora box with just XFce4 and no Gnome/KDE with a minimum of hassle.
|>|>
|>|>Now if only Red Hat's enterprise offerings will pickup the same, I'd be
|>|>all set.
|>|
|>|
|>| Not likely to happen, IMHO. :)
|>
|>Uhm... it is *very* likely to happen!
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|
| I suppose you'd know more about it than I, but the additional costs
involved in
| supporting additional WMs and DEs led RH to remove everything other
than GNOME
| and KDE. I don't particularly see any compelling reason to add XFce to
RHEL.

Officially they intend to include a lighter, and yet still
usable/functional desktop into RHEL. twm is certainly light but not very
functional.


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csm
Lunar Linux Project Lead
Disclaimer: "I am not a curmudgeon! No... really..."
Addendum: "Bwahahaha! Fire up the orbital mind-control lasers!"
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