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Post subject: XFCE Edition
 Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 09:51 PM
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Hi,
this mail is meant to give a big hand to the development team.... by making the XFCE edition they really made a big dream come true: putting sidux on many old trashware machines (P2 & P3's) that now can literally *fly* without having to shift to some other minor distro.
I had tried to convert sidux in the past to XFCE, but had annoying severe troubles with memory allocation. Now, I'll be able to get around those and have a fresh product running smooth!
It's a great breakthrough, on linux side, for the environment, for the economy and the social.
I'm really proud to have sidux as my distro and YOU, developers, as the great team behind this marvellous distro.
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Post subject: RE: XFCE Edition
Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 04:20 AM
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Thanks for the feedback  |
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Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 11:35 AM
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I would like to add to this that I am a recent newcomer to using sidux, I downloaded my first one about a week ago or so ( kde ).
I found that to be very smooth and well running. Attractive appearance.
I was also made aware in the IRC channel at the time, about the soon to be released Xfce version.mostly because I was discussing with cleary my intent on installing Xfce on the kde version myself, as kde is my personal preference to use.
So, instead, I sat tight and soon enough, here is the anticipated release.
While I must admit, I am never one to be thrilled with the 'stock' appearance of Xfce, The performance has been great. I had wifi and samba as well as NFS working in minutes.
ceni is a handy tool, and though I needed an eth connection at first to d/l drivers, it worked efficiently and did it's job well after that was done.
I did go back to the irc channel to give a running commentary as I booted it for the first time. I also gave a link to show folks an idea of what I meant when I said I like to play with Xfce. Which I will provide a link here as well, if it is ok with the forum folk.
http://picasaweb.google.com/bigbearomaha/BearsDistroReviews/photo#5217460524232151602
At any rate, Irregardless of 'stock' Xfce or not, performance more than makes up for that any day of the week.
Job well done sidux team.
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Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 08:05 PM
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Add my appreciation.
xfce, lean, clean, and mean.
New to site, but not to sudux or Linux
Thanks
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 05:36 PM
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| Yes I have it on two machines so far that I thought I'd never be able to run sidux on a 500 and 750. (old dell laptops) and I must say they simply "work". I've received a lot of help in both IRC and on here and I'm sure I'm not done. Anyway Congrats everyone for making it possible and thanks. |
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 05:56 PM
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Btw, just some help request:
the other night I went to a friend's to install sidux XFCE on an old IBM 6862 (P3, 450MHz, 192M RAM, 13G hd, bios & S3 video bios updated to latest version). It worked perfectly!
The only problem has been not when I installed yakuake (perfect too, btw)... but when I dared too much and tried to install konqueror......
Bringing in some kdebase-bin package it completely messed up X login which keeps on "cycling"... is this normal????? It kinda says it is the 1st time I am running XFCE (wrong) and that the profile needs to be created, then sends me back to X login screen; btw, even choosing there XFCE as session kind works no result.
On a previous reverse-experiment (installin XFCE over nyx-kdelite) I never had this kinda problem.... but is it really a forbidden dream to use konqueror on erebos-xfce???? |
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 07:30 PM
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jaegermeister wrote:
Bringing in some kdebase-bin package it completely messed up X login which keeps on "cycling"... is this normal????? It kinda says it is the 1st time I am running XFCE (wrong) and that the profile needs to be created, then sends me back to X login screen; btw, even choosing there XFCE as session kind works no result.
I don't know much about XFCE, but when you have this problem with KDE, you can usually "fix" it by renaming the hidden .kde directly in the user's folder. I said "fix" because that folder has all the customized desktop settings in it, so you're back to the generic desktop and you have to configure it again.
So, whatever the XFCE hidden folder is that has the user's desktop settings may need to be renamed "xxx.bak".
BTW the problem is often caused by the root user mucking about in the user's folder .... and inadvertently attaching root permissions to something therein. |
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Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 07:41 PM
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hi jaegermeister
you can try
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df -h
in a console - this shows you if there is enough place for those kde-libs 
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Posted: Jul 08, 2008 - 04:04 AM
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I'll chime in here too. Quick install and a nice choice of default apps (almost entirely what I would have chosen). Thank you so much for this.  |
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Posted: Jul 08, 2008 - 10:51 AM
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The last time I was so instantly excited and enthousiastic about a distro was back in 2005 when I first laid eyes on Ubuntu. Love at first sight.
My machine can run Vista with its hands tied to its back, imagine the performance of sidux. |
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Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 03:41 AM
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| I installed XFCE on top of an old Gaia install using smxi. Did I miss something -- should I make some changes to my sources.list file in order to enjoy a better supported XFCE? |
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Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 05:01 AM
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viniosity wrote:
I installed XFCE on top of an old Gaia install using smxi. Did I miss something -- should I make some changes to my sources.list file in order to enjoy a better supported XFCE?
absolutely not - the only thing different now is that we now distribute an iso that uses xfce by default. Erebos is the first release to do so. The xfce packages you installed would have come from the same repositories as those on the release. |
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Posted: Jul 23, 2008 - 09:29 PM
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jaegermeister wrote:
Btw, just some help request:
the other night I went to a friend's to install sidux XFCE on an old IBM 6862 (P3, 450MHz, 192M RAM, 13G hd, bios & S3 video bios updated to latest version). It worked perfectly!
The only problem has been not when I installed yakuake (perfect too, btw)... but when I dared too much and tried to install konqueror......
Perhaps try guake or tilda next time you want that type of terminal. It's your machine and of course you can do as you please but I guess I just don't see the point of using Xfce if you're still going to have the KDE services running in the background to run things like Konqueror. That's what makes Xfce so much faster - there are not a multitude of services required for it to run.
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Bringing in some kdebase-bin package it completely messed up X login which keeps on "cycling"... is this normal????? It kinda says it is the 1st time I am running XFCE (wrong) and that the profile needs to be created, then sends me back to X login screen; btw, even choosing there XFCE as session kind works no result.
Still using GDM? Not sure why you'd get those sorts of errors. You could always add a new user and try to log in the new user.
BTW - Configurations for Xfce are kept in ~/.config
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but is it really a forbidden dream to use konqueror on erebos-xfce????
In theory it should be fine but I know almost nothing about KDE and how it works. |
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Posted: Jul 26, 2008 - 02:01 PM
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| I have some 'opinions' about the xfce edition but overall......what can I say.....I just HAD to try it. Not my cup of tea but a nice cup none the less. Enjoying a few sips of it.... |
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Posted: Aug 09, 2008 - 08:51 PM
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| I'm lovin' it myself ... my machine's kinda old, but even if it was brand new I'd still prefer something lighter than KDE. But in this 256-MB 1.3-gHz relic, xfce-sidux screams. More so when I'm using Fluxbox, my own favorite GUI. |
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