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georgelappies

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Registered: 2011-04-26

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Hi from South Africa. Thanks for Xfce!

George here from South Africa. I installed xubuntu 11.04 and I must say I am very impressed with Xfce! Its very, very fast. The interface is clean and most importantly doesn't get in your way. This is the quickest I have been able to boot into a fully functional OS yet

To all the people responsible for this, a big thumbs up!

Anzhr

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Registered: 2011-03-13

Posts: 72

Re: Hi from South Africa. Thanks for Xfce!

That's great. Xfce is even faster on Debian. Try Mint Xfce, which is based on Debian testing. Or better yet Xfce on Debian itself without any GNOME cruft installed.

Enjoy.

georgelappies

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Registered: 2011-04-26

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Re: Hi from South Africa. Thanks for Xfce!

That's great. Xfce is even faster on Debian. Try Mint Xfce, which is based on Debian testing. Or better yet Xfce on Debian itself without any GNOME cruft installed.

Enjoy.

Thanks for the tips, what would be the best method of getting debain with xfce without gnome? Any howtos mayhaps?

Anzhr

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Registered: 2011-03-13

Posts: 72

Re: Hi from South Africa. Thanks for Xfce!

Yes, easy.

The Debian project provides excellent documentation and resources.

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual

And the Debian User's Forum is also excellent.

http://forums.debian.net/

This is a torrent for an iso that contains both Xfce and Lxde.

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0 … so.torrent

Then there's the Mint version which does have GNOMe cruft but also conveniences like pre-installed codecs etc. It's about twice as fast as Xubuntu from people's testimony. And escapes the six month upgrade agonies.

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=79

So, again, enjoy.

Have fun.

georgelappies

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Registered: 2011-04-26

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Re: Hi from South Africa. Thanks for Xfce!

Thanks I downloaded both of them and tried them out. With the debian release I get a kernel panic when I try to boot from usb stick? Linuxmint looks very nice, but I see that it is the 4.6 version of xfce? How can one update to xfce 4.8?

Anzhr

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Registered: 2011-03-13

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Re: Hi from South Africa. Thanks for Xfce!

$.8 is now in Debian Sid (experimental). Once it's been kicked around a bit it will roll into Debian Wheezy (testing).

georgelappies

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Registered: 2011-04-26

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Re: Hi from South Africa. Thanks for Xfce!

So how do I install Sid or is it not recommended? Sorry for all the questions I am a bit new to this but most eager to learn.

Anzhr

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Registered: 2011-03-13

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Re: Hi from South Africa. Thanks for Xfce!

No, don't use Sid unless you like to fix breakages. And there are quite a few being worked with by Sid Xfce users. For the benefit of those who just want to use their computers.

Xubuntu will have a bunch of work-arounds and patches instead of real fixes.

Best to wait for Xfce 4.8 to come into tresting (Wheezy). Only a week or a few, most likely.

SecretCode

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From: South Africa

Registered: 2011-04-29

Posts: 2

Re: Hi from South Africa. Thanks for Xfce!

Hi ... also from South Africa!

I used xubuntu-desktop for a while last year on top of regular Ubuntu. Now I'm trying out pure Xubuntu in another partition. Will give it a while but will likely also try other distributions.

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I'd rather be locked out than locked in.