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Accessibility and the open desktop: everyone gains by it

Posted Oct 18, 2012 22:20 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
Parent article: Accessibility and the open desktop: everyone gains by it

...the likely decision by Debian to make Xfce4 its default desktop environment in Wheezy...

Not that likely, actually - the GNOME packages have been recompressed with xz and the installer beta 3 apparently has a useful CD#1 with GNOME.

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debian xfce default install

Posted Oct 19, 2012 7:48 UTC (Fri) by skitching (subscriber, #36856) [Link]

I wonder when Debian is going to give up on install CDs completely, anyway. A USB-based install is possible on even quite old systems now..

debian xfce default install

Posted Oct 19, 2012 13:28 UTC (Fri) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

It has been seriously considered this time, and I expect this will be the last release with CD images.

debian xfce default install

Posted Oct 19, 2012 23:42 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

If they provide a bootloader cdrom to boot the USB do-dad then it will work on pretty much all pcs, new and old.