Best XFCE distro?


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Is it Xubuntu? It seems quite popular, but AFAIK it's not very bleeding-edge, and I'm worried it might a bit too similar to Ubuntu in terms of sluggishness. I could be wrong, however.

There are other XFCE-based distros out there, but I'm concerned that I might be getting outdated versions of apps, or the updates won't be as frequent.

I'd like plenty of speed, an economy of space, plus something that's a bit more bleeding edge, with easy package installation. And it has to be XFCE-based. Or maybe I should just install XFCE through Fedora 10 . . .

I'd appreciate some help. I'll be trying it on a Macbook Pro (Feb '08 model.)

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'Best Distro' is very subjective.

I like ArchLinux and Foresight Linux.

Absolutely correct.

What I should have said is "distro that does XFCE well."

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This distro might be something of interest to you.

DreamLinux is based on Debian, so installing something is the same process as in Ubuntu. It's a very well maintained distro and very polished.

The default desktop comes with a dock similar to MacOSX, you might just feel comfortable using it. ;)

Check the complete features on their site.

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I first tried XFCE on a version of Fedora. I think it was well-done there. I prefer fluxbox, personally, but XFCE would be by next choice, if I did not use a *box.

Currently, I use Xubuntu. It did a lot of nice setup automatically for me that Fedora did not do, and that is what made my decision. (plus Fedora still setup and starts the "sendmail" daemon, even for desktop users, when I last used it - and that is something they should change, if you ask me)

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Im using Xubuntu but for similar reason as the change in Shift (to Arch base), I'm contemplating switching as well. I'm not fully sure where yet or if I even want to because I have my computer set up how I like it and I hate having to reconfigure it all.

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Give Wolvix a try. It uses XFCE as good as anyone, and it runs very well on my old Celeron 2.0 w/256 RAM laptop. It's also Slackware based. Gotta love that dark look as well. :)

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Give Wolvix a try. It uses XFCE as good as anyone, and it runs very well on my old Celeron 2.0 w/256 RAM laptop. It's also Slackware based. Gotta love that dark look as well. :)

I like Xubuntu... Main reason is that I don't have much time to fiddle around and configure stuff. If I did have the time, I'd probably use something different.

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Sorry, I don't want to hijack the thread... But I have a question.

I wanted to install ZenWalk. The thing is it uses Lilo instead of GRUB. So what do I do? Choose not to install any boot managers? Will GRUB (which currently has only Fedora) recognize it and add it?

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Sorry, I don't want to hijack the thread... But I have a question.

I wanted to install ZenWalk. The thing is it uses Lilo instead of GRUB. So what do I do? Choose not to install any boot managers? Will GRUB (which currently has only Fedora) recognize it and add it?

No, GRUB won't automatically "recognize" it, you will have to configure it so that it can boot ZenWalk.

You wish to keep Fedora installed right? If that's so, keep GRUB and configure it later.

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Yes, but as I understand, you have to download extra crap and I use wireless internet and my wireless card doesn't work in any of the distros I have tried so far. So I'm stuck with whatever comes in the distro. And for Fedora it's Gnome.

Damn it really killed my will to study the OS more :(

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Yes, but as I understand, you have to download extra crap and I use wireless internet and my wireless card doesn't work in any of the distros I have tried so far. So I'm stuck with whatever comes in the distro. And for Fedora it's Gnome.

Damn it really killed my will to study the OS more :(

Wireless worked out of the box with Wolvix, no driver download or anything.

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Wireless worked out of the box with Wolvix, no driver download or anything.

I might give it a shot. I can now add Suse to the list of the distros that didn't work with my wireless out of the box. On the other hand *ubuntu didn't work with it out of the box, with tweaking, using ndiswrapper, installing cvs drivers, installing different cvs drivers, with ipv6 disabled, with ipv6 enabled, and combinations of aforementioned. Man I am so angry... Note: each distro actually recognized my wireless card neatly, it just didn't work or worked with speeds so horrific it rendered it unusable ;(

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