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- ggarron, on 12/03/2007, -0/+22XFCE is great, and not only for old PCs, it is actually good for any user, you can even have compiz-fusion working on it, I like it.
- PhireN, on 12/03/2007, -1/+12Hmm, gnome is getting a bit boring, prehaps I should give Xfce a spin, or maybe something very lightweight like one of the boxes (fluxbox, blackbox, bluebox etc)
- WayOfTheIronPaw, on 12/03/2007, -0/+10momsshizzle: buried for trolling.
- knutert, on 12/03/2007, -0/+10The window managers contain a lot of libraries that the applications use. However, there's nothing stopping you from using a KDE app in Gnome, you just have to install all the relevant kdelibs as well. I use several KDE programs on my Gnome desktop, without noting any significant performance hit.
- nayr, on 12/03/2007, -1/+10"fight"? Xubuntu isn't a disease, it's an os. If you want to use zenwalk, use zenwalk. If you hate ubuntu, keep it to yourself. There's no competition.
- RoboDonut, on 12/03/2007, -0/+8Meh.
I prefer Fluxbox.
Unlike Openbox, it has tabbing, *box style compatibility, and it comes with a toolbar.
All of the *boxes are good though. - Tyr7BE, on 12/03/2007, -1/+8*box is *****. I use it on any system that's too old to handle Gnome. Fully functional WM and it's _barely_ there as far as memory is concerned.
- Rhino2, on 12/03/2007, -2/+9That's good, because it likes you to.
- Toshibi, on 12/03/2007, -2/+9Xubuntu is great. I use it on my desktop (a P4 3.0 GHz with 2 Gigs of RAM and a 512 7300GT Nvidia PCI-e card) and that puppy smokes!
- Uriptical, on 12/04/2007, -0/+7You can have GNOME, KDE, and Xfce on the same Ubuntu install, and can switch between them on the login screen.
- subgeniusd, on 12/03/2007, -0/+6Samba issues are why I reluctantly quit Xfce 4.0 after several months.
Why in the world would you consider Xubuntu something to fight against? The more the merrier dude.... - bvdeenen, on 12/03/2007, -0/+6not really. The window manager is pretty much irrelevant for the application. What IS required for a lot of applications, is one or more support libraries. Gnome applications often need dozens of libraries to run, kde apps somewhat less. These libraries can be installed separately, but easiest is just to install "Gnome" or "Kde". You can have both installed on your system without any problem, and then run any other window manager to your liking.
I use KDE, but have the gnome libraries installed for Gimp, and even for some custom development I've done.
Bart - RoboDonut, on 12/03/2007, -0/+6It doesn't have one because it's a file manager, not a network manager.
Mount the network filesystem with FUSE and access it like the rest of the *nix filesystem. - johnnykwest, on 12/03/2007, -0/+6It's at 116 diggs here and the site's coming up fine. Must be you.
- MattBD, on 12/03/2007, -0/+5You're just jealous that you don't have a choice of desktops.
- chapium, on 12/03/2007, -1/+5Whoopee a maintenance release
- baalzebub, on 12/03/2007, -0/+4KDE's Konqueror is best i know of for a network browser, it cant be beat for using copy & paste on ftp sites, you can select multiple files and simply copy & paste them to your home directory as easy as doing it locally...
- hardcorerikki, on 12/03/2007, -1/+5Zenwalk is my default OS for my old pentium 3 laptop, but The P4 dualboots with SAM Linux 2007, which is basically PClinuxOS 2007 with Xfce as the desktop, and many other nifty extras.
Kudos to the Xfce folks! Looking forward to even more exciting updates ;) - thing-fish, on 12/03/2007, -0/+4LOL, even though I am a huge xkcd fan. ;)
- Zarxrax, on 12/03/2007, -1/+5I'm not a linux user, but I'm about to start running it on my old PC. There's one thing about window managers like this that I have been wondering. Does your window manager of choice limit the applications that you can run on it? There seem to be a number of apps designed specifically for Gnome, and a lot of apps specifically for KDE. It doesn't really make much sense to me, as it seems like everyone could just write universal programs, but whatever. Is my assumption correct that you cant run kde apps on gnome and vice versa? Where does xfce fit in with all this? Does it require its own apps as well? This is a big concern for me, because my main reason for not using linux is that it doesn't have viable alternatives to much of the software I use, and if my selection of software is limited even further by what window manager I choose, I think that just kinda sucks.
- baalzebub, on 12/03/2007, -2/+6Openbox
- Rhino2, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3""Work is continuing on DR17 and the supporting EFL.""
When I first started getting into linux in the late 90s they where on 16... after years of linux use they finally updated to 17... now, they still are in beta testing 17 and this is at least 8 or 9 years after the fact.
It was and still is [to an extent] a head of it's time... but dam, they need some active developers... LOLZ. - CondoleezzaRice, on 12/03/2007, -3/+6Enlightenment, anyone?
- ggarron, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3I have used it, alone and together with Gnome, here is what I wrote about it.
http://www.go2linux.org/enlightenment
if you are interested in installing it on Debian - inactive, on 12/03/2007, -2/+5I loved xfce but it has no network browser by default, and i couldn't seem to ever get that going. Its a shame really that it just doesn't come with one
- Vinvin, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3Choice is awesome :)
- RoboDonut, on 12/03/2007, -1/+4Everything in Linux is fairly independent. You can use KDE apps in Gnome, Gnome apps in KDE, bits of the Gnome with bits of KDE, KDE/Gnome with Fluxbox, etc.
The possibilities are endless. - 4321234, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2vector linux has a nice fluxbox desktop option, and you can demo it as live cd.
- RoboDonut, on 12/03/2007, -2/+4It isn't the site that's crippled...
- Uriptical, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1Xfce's website claims that you can run the desktop environment on MacOS X. Does anyone know how would this work exactly? Could you still run Mac applications such as iTunes or Photoshop through Xfce?
- RoboDonut, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1Because FUSE is a kernel module and Thunar is in userland.
- NeilJ, on 12/03/2007, -5/+6Will everyone please stop posting these stupid comics? oh wait I was thinking of something else...
- Vinvin, on 12/03/2007, -1/+2IMHO Xubuntu is the cleanest of them all (I've tried Wolvix, Mint and Dreamlinux). Wolvix's nice too but a bit too limited, Mint is bloated and Dreamlinux... Well, I suppose it just needs to be your thing.
- hyperair, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Enlightenment eh? Awesome. I liked the overall look and feel, but there wasn't enough to fully replace my GNOME yet. So I switched back.
- paraparker, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1I would have to say yes... I'm at 40 days uptime with Xubuntu 7.10 on an old 256MB/Celeron system and it's still snappy as ever and hasn't hit swap yet (it's only used for network monitoring). I never used to make it past 6-7 days without grinding to a halt.
- MozillaFirefox, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Umm..If you install Xfce on your Ubuntu computer does it replace GNOME? Like do you have to delete everything?
- inactive, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Why? Are there any bugs? Ever heard of qmail recently? :)
- MattBD, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Only seen it when I tried gOS, but it was great in that.
- greyfade, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Oh, they have active developers. I'm on the CVS commit mailing list - I see well over a thousand commits per month. Raster and friends are very hard at work. They just haven't stabilized the EFL API yet.
- sqrt7744, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1yeah, it seems like not much exciting is going on in the linux/unix category as of late. :(
- djGentoo, on 12/03/2007, -1/+2Wolvix is not "limited", it's more complete out of the box than Ubuntu. (Hunter edition, at least...)
- inactive, on 12/03/2007, -1/+1Huh?
- greyfade, on 12/03/2007, -1/+1Have they fixed the memory leak in xfce4-desktop and xfce4-menu-applet ?
- theranjan, on 12/03/2007, -1/+1Really great news. Really like Xfce, even though KDE is my environment of choice. Lets see if it lives up to my expectations like the prevoius editions did.
- winblows, on 12/09/2007, -0/+0pie is tasty
- thimios, on 12/05/2007, -0/+0I am having a linux identity crisis for quite some time.. From Suse I moved to kubuntu one year ago and recently to Mint. I got sick waiting for normally over 1-2 seconds the file manager to open in Gnome or Kde. Add firefox,eclipse and speed issues start to rise even on computer that you can't say is old (Athlon XP 2600 - 512 Ram - 128MB nvidia graphics). I am using xfce now for some days ( I installed 4.4.2 yesterday) and I must say xfce in my opinion is more than a good desktop environment.
I believe xfce is the TRUE HOPE FOR LINUX DESKTOP.
I am very impressed by it's simplicity , user friendliness , and speed.
I am falling in love again with my Linux desktop.
- MozillaFirefox, on 12/04/2007, -0/+0Thank you!
- inactive, on 12/04/2007, -1/+1I tried just gave up after a while i couldn't get fuse to work. I don't get why XFCE can't just come with fuse.
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