What news of XFCE final release

[oliverjames]

As an enthusiast of th XFCE desktop I'm wondering whether all development work has stopped. Am I stuck with Gnome forever?

Oliverjames

[belovedmonster]

Time to reveal my dirty little secret... I dont actually run Linux Mint. I run Xubuntu! So I too am waiting for a final release of XFCE Mint.

[Husse]

The XFCE is a CE (community edition) and not much happens.
Merlwiz who started work on it has had severe problems with illness and partial computer failure, but from what I understand he is now working on it (or as soon as he gets a new large hard disk)
But no promises made and he can answer better himself

[belovedmonster]

I think that kinda highlights the problem, that really our community distros are one man efforts. It would be good if we could encourage small teams of people to work collectively on these things rather than leaving it all up to one individual. I'm sure Merlwiz wouldnt object to the suggestion of advertising on the forum for more contributors to the XFCE cause. Ask him and see what he says?

[reia2k]

I changed the repositaries of linux mint daryna xfce and I updated...
it was a little risky but now all works fine
If you want try, good luck!!

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## UBUNTU REPOSITORIES
## +++ Hardy (Ubuntu 8.40) +++
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security main restricted universe multiverse
# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

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## LINUX MINT REPOSITORIES
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## Daryna (Linux Mint 4.0)
deb http://www.linuxmint.com/repository/ daryna main upstream import
# deb http://www.linuxmint.com/repository/ daryna community backport

## +++ Romeo (Linux Mint Unstable) +++
# deb http://www.linuxmint.com/repository romeo daryna

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## OTHER REPOSITORIES
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## +++ Canonical (RealPlayer10, Opera, DesktopSecure etc...) +++
#deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ gutsy partner
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy partner

## +++ Medibuntu (Codecs and extra applications) +++
#deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

## Wicd Updates
deb http://wicd.longren.org/ gutsy extras
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