This is why Xfce was dropped from Fedora Core 4

[Pat Martin]

>
> I've been looking for an alternative to Fedora Core for some time 
> (poor multimedia support, sound card worked with FC1, FC2 but not FC3, 
> drab user interface, poor menu organization, lack of good GUI for the 
> linux system tools). May be now I will have to try harder...
>
> Regards,
> Jeff.
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You might take a look at Slackware. I went back to Slack after years 
away but it just seems to work and even feels snappier than Fedora (not 
a big stretch). Slack 10.1 also includes XFCE4.2!

Pat