Re: No more Xubuntu based Linux Mint Xfce.
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:27 am
Still not not very well-known, but a nice option, IMHO.Murdock wrote:If you want a Debian XFCE get SalineOS.
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Still not not very well-known, but a nice option, IMHO.Murdock wrote:If you want a Debian XFCE get SalineOS.
Well, I'm aware of that, but I'm kind of worried about the direction Mint is heading in.edwardr wrote:Dry Lips, Mint 9 Xfce is still available and it is a LTS version.
Let us hope that the developers read this discussion then Lxde is a great choice for low-endedwardr wrote:I also wish they had kept Mint Xfce based on Xubuntu. I currently have Mint 9 Xfce on my primary computer and have no desire to change it. When I tried Mint Debian, and later Mint Debian Xfce, I ended up deleting them because they just didn't work on my machines. I understand the lxde version is now the light *buntu-based Mint, and I have Mint 10 Lxde on my secondary computer, but I stil prefer Xfce.
merlwiz79 wrote:clem wrote:The Xfce edition will continue on top of a Debian base. The features that were included in mintconfig-xfce and mintdesktop-xfce need to be included in mintdesktop. The new version of mintdesktop is now DE agnostic and features different tabs depending on which DE it is run on. By adding Xfce specifics tabs to it we can include the mintconfig-xfce and mindesktop-xfce features back into the edition.
I understand that a few people don't like the mainstream software selection and/or the switch to LMDE, but it was necessary to do this change and we won't be supporting Xfce on top of Ubuntu in the future. On the Mint 10 release cycle, we almost ran short and skipped this edition entirely. We simply don't have the manpower and the resources to guarantee the maintenance and so it's important for us to switch it to a rolling series and out of the release cycle. It also makes a lot of sense from a strategic point of view. It's likely Fluxbox and LXDE will switch as well.
I'm new in linux and finally had found linux mint xfce based on xubuntu which I love and I hear that its development has stopped, I hope to pick up againDry Lips wrote:I did actually PM Clem about this a little while ago and brought Nunol's suggestion
(see above) to his notice. What he wrote back was that while he couldn't promise anything,
it certainly was something to consider...
This is another thing I like about the Mint community... I feel suggestions and feedback
are welcome here!
Bad news if that means less time available for needed work for the LMDE editions.Dry Lips wrote:I did actually PM Clem about this a little while ago and brought Nunol's suggestion
(see above) to his notice. What he wrote back was that while he couldn't promise anything,
it certainly was something to consider...
This is another thing I like about the Mint community... I feel suggestions and feedback
are welcome here!
No, you can install any available desktop or WM on any Mint edition.GrouchyGaijin wrote:I just installed Mint 12 and then got Xfce from the repository and am running that.
Is there going to be a problem doing so in the future?
Mint has a edition with XFCE that was based on Ubuntu in Mint 9 LTS and is now based on Debian in Mint XFCE. If you use that edition you are affected but if you build "your" Mint XFCE on top of any other Ubuntu based Mint edition like Mint 12, Mint 12 KDE or Mint 12 LXDE then you are not affected.GrouchyGaijin wrote:My question is, will Mint Xfce moving to Debian from Ubuntu affect me or is this just about installing an Xfce edition that doesn't come with Gnome or other desktops?