Notes from the mousepad » Distros http://j1m.net user help, free and open source Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:48:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Thanks, Debian! http://j1m.net/2010/08/16/thanks-debian/ http://j1m.net/2010/08/16/thanks-debian/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:11:33 +0000 jim http://j1m.net/?p=217 Today is Debian’s 17th birthday*, and with that comes Debian Appreciation day!  Do you want to give them some thanks for the super work that they do?  Just head over to thank.debian.net, and leave them a few words to express your gratitude.

You can even search for your favorite package, team, or packaging team, and thank them directly!   (Don’t we all want to thank the XML/SGML Group, though?)

*I’m sure that Debian is looking forward to next year when it will turn 18, and (at least in the U.S.) be able to vote and smoke cigarettes.

]]> http://j1m.net/2010/08/16/thanks-debian/feed/ 0 More Xfce-based choices for users http://j1m.net/2008/03/03/more-xfce-based-choices-for-users/ http://j1m.net/2008/03/03/more-xfce-based-choices-for-users/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:23:47 +0000 jim http://j1m.net/2008/03/03/more-xfce-based-choices-for-users/ The Fedora folks continue to update their Xfce live-cd spin.  Since their initial efforts using Fedora 8, they’ve made some changes in the look of the spin – for example, using the default Fedora wallpaper and the Mist icon set.  Application selection (seemingly an on-going issue with Xfce-based distros – trying to balance being lightweight while still being user-friendly) continues to be ironed-out.

While I primarily work with Xubuntu, it’s great to see projects like Fedora and Foresight Linux embrace Xfce, too.  The more people that we can have using Xfce, reporting back bugs, and submitting patches, the better Xfce will be.

As an additional note, the Fedora wiki links to the upstream README file for xfdesktop.  It provides a few little-known customizations that may be of interest to some Xfce users.

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