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Xfce Documentation Licensing

Greetings!  I hope everyone has been enjoying their summers, and that things are progressing along smoothly with the 9.10 release cycle.  I want to share a brief note regarding Xfce documentation licensing with the hopes that others could provide some additional points for us to consider. Before I do that, though, let me pause to [...]

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Xfce 4.6 is released!

Hot off of the presses comes a release announcement marking the final release of Xfce 4.6! from          Stephan Arts <stephan@xfce.org> date    Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:30 PM subject    Xfce 4.6.0 Released!!! After more than two years of development, Xfce 4.6.0 has just been released. Xfce 4.6 features a new configuration backend, a new [...]

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8.04 reasons why Ubuntu and Kubuntu users should consider using Xubuntu

With the successful Beta release of Xubuntu 8.04, I got to thinking of some of the qualities that have always drawn me back to using Xubuntu.  I know that people have spirited feelings about their desktops of choice in the Linux world, but I thought I’d present a few reasons (8.04 reasons, to be exact) [...]

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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 [...]

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