The Fedora 8 Xfce Spin
| From: | Rahul Sundaram <sundaram-AT-fedoraproject.org> | |
| To: | fedora-announce-list-AT-redhat.com | |
| Subject: | Announcing Fedora 8 Xfce Spin | |
| Date: | Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:31:23 +0530 | |
| Message-ID: | <47B279A3.4040200@fedoraproject.org> |
Hello Friends, I am pleased to announce the immediate release of a brand new and sparkling, Fedora 8 Xfce Spin. Fedora Xfce Spin is a bootable Fedora Live CD image available for x86 and x86_64 architecture. It can be optionally installed to hard disk or converted into boot USB images and is ideal for Xfce fans and for users running Fedora on relatively low resource systems. As a additional bonus, this release rolls in updates for Fedora 8 released till yesterday (2008/02/12). Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment available in Fedora. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources. More information at http://xfce.org == Download == Torrent only download available at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ == Feedback == We value your feedback highly. Send all your feedback and suggestions to http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list == Release Highlights == === Xfce 4.4.2 === This release includes the latest Xfce release, 4.4.2 that integrates many new features and bug fixes. More information is available [http://www.xfce.org/about/news?id=13 here]. Along with the basic Xfce desktop environment, Thunar file manager and a comprehensive set of plugins and additional Xfce utilities like Xarchiver archive manager and Orage calendar application is included. All available languages in Fedora has also been integrated with this release. === Major Desktop Applications === This release includes a number of major desktop applications including: * Firefox 2.0 Web browser * Claws Mail * Pidgin Instant Messenger * Brasero CD/DVD Burner * Tracker Desktop Search * NetworkManager * Totem With Browser Plugin * Java With Browser Plugin === Office Software === * Abiword Word Processor * Gnumeric Spreadsheet Application * Evince PDF viewer === Accessories === * Geany Basic Integrated Development Environment(IDE) * Galculator Scientific Calculator * Gftp FTP Client * Mirage Image Viewer === Command Line Utilities === Several small but useful command line utilities are included too! Major highlights include: * Mutt mail client * Irssi Modular IRC Client * Yum-utils: A collection of very useful yum utilities * Powertop: Power Consumption Monitor For Laptop Users == Release Notes == Release notes for Fedora is available for your reference at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/ == Create Your Own Fedora! == The kickstart file used to create this spin is available at http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/spins/livecd-fedora-8-xf.... If you wish to create your own spin locally or customize this to suit your needs, refer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo. --- Rahul Sundaram -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Posted Feb 13, 2008 22:27 UTC (Wed)
by Ed_L. (guest, #24287)
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Posted Feb 14, 2008 2:45 UTC (Thu)
by nirik (subscriber, #71)
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Posted Feb 14, 2008 3:29 UTC (Thu)
by Ed_L. (guest, #24287)
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Suite. I've been playing with Xfce on Fedora 8 the past few days. I would like to use it as my regular desktop -- my home pc is resource constrained -- but I haven't been able to figure out how to make hald mount removable media e.g. usb pen drive under Xfce. Works fine under Gnome. All the further I get with Xfc3 is a few flashes from the pen drive led, an entry in /proc/bus/usb/001, and a .hal_usb file in /media. But no /media/disk, and nothing in fstab or mtab. Anyone with a clue? Thanks!
The Fedora 8 Xfce Spin
The Fedora 8 Xfce Spin
Sure, 'yum install thunar-volman' and then fire up Thunar, then go to 'Edit' -> 'Preferences'
-> 'Advanced', and enable 'Enable Volume Management' and then click on 'configure'.
You can get thunar-volman to do all sorts of things on removal drives and media.
Thanks! Works like a chump! The thunar_volman gui is pretty woofy, but it does the job :). And it came up with all the removable media auto-mount stuff already configured. This is pretty important for me, as I sneakernet my work backups home on the pen drive. I'll assume the lack of thunar_volman in Fedora's default pup Xfce package is an oversight. Hope they fix it!
The Fedora 8 Xfce Spin