'xubuntu' Category
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Nov 04
2012How to start contributing to Xfce or any other open source project
It’s been a while since I’ve updated this website and even longer since
I’ve written anything useful. But since I’ve received a couple of mails
from people looking to contribute to Xfce recently, I thought I’d share
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Jan 16
2011It has arrived: Xfce 4.8
The Xfce development team has announced the release of Xfce 4.8, the culmination of almost two years of work. The release makes Xfce once again a truly modern desktop environment by making use of recent desktop frameworks that, for example, finally allow you to browse remote shares or to edit the menu using a menu [...]
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Nov 07
2010Xfce alive and well: new version on its way
On 7 November, Jannis Pohlmann announced the first preview release of Xfce 4.8. The new version of Xfce, which is planned to be released on January 16th, brings much-requested features, and will close a development cycle in which the project made great strides forward. Let’s first focus on the improvements coming in the next release [...]
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Jul 31
2009Finally: free Xubuntu CDs!
Xubuntu users have long clamoured for their beloved Linux distribution to be available in Ubuntu’s ShipIt service, but to no avail: Xubuntu’s user base was too marginal and, as a community-run project, Canonical could not provide support for it. Thus, they refrained from offering free Xubuntu CDs. They still do, but there now is an [...]
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Jun 04
2009News Update
A lot of things are going on lately and it turns out I’m way to busy to update my weblog on a regular basis. So, this is just a short post to keep you all updated.
Last two weeks
I took a new student job at the university, at the Institute of T…
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May 24
2009Trip to Barcelona
Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be travelling to Barcelona, where I’m going to spend the week surrounded by hackers from all over the world planning the next release of Ubuntu. I’ll meet up with Stephan, Cody, Michael and Steve there to improve Xubuntu but…
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Apr 23
2009Thunar/GIO – Quick Status Report
I’ve started hacking on the migration of Thunar to GIO on April 9th. In about 61 commits, I’ve reduced the original number of ThunarVFS references in the Thunar source code dramatically. The most important and probably most time-consuming part of t…
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Apr 06
2009The prettiest of the *buntu’s is coming
Ubuntu’s brownish/orangy theme has been the target of much criticism. What is often forgotten is that one of its derivatives has been looking very good for quite a while now: Xubuntu. A complete visual overhaul for the upcoming version 9.04 is all set to continue this trend. Pasi Lallinaho, picking up the baton from Jozsef [...]
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Mar 01
2009Xfce making great strides with version 4.6
A little more than two years after version 4.4 was released into the wild (on 21 January 2007), the Xfce development team has announced the availability of the new version of the Xfce desktop environment yesterday (yes I’m late to the party…). In an email, release manager Stephan Arts announced the new version 4.6 (only [...]
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Nov 30
2008Xubuntu upgrade: from Heron to Ibex
Usually I install Xubuntu afresh when a new release arrives. This time along, though, I felt like upgrading from Xubuntu 8.04 to Xubuntu 8.10. The first thing to consider is that Xubuntu 8.04 is a “Long Term Support” release, meaning that it’ll receive security updates for a longer period of time than normal releases. Thus, [...]
