Neowin News Feed for: Xfce

Linux Mint 22.2 ‘Zara' makes the desktop "more comfortable" than ever

Paul Hill — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:12:01 +0000

Linux Mint 22.2 'Zara' is now available as a beta release. It brings some new user-facing features as well as features behind the scenes. Read more...

MX Linux set to receive Xfce 4.18 update sometime in January

Paul Hill — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 21:00:01 +0000

MX Linux will receive the big Xfce 4.18 update sometime in January, the team behind the project has announced. New ISOs will also be made available with the Xfce update included by default. Read more...

Linux Mint 21 ‘Vanessa' released, available in Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce flavours

Paul Hill — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 22:28:47 +0000

Linux Mint 21 'Vanessa' is now available to download. It comes two weeks after the start of the beta period. 152 issues were reported during the beta. Some were fixed, others will be fixed later. Read more...

Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa” beta arrives in three flavours

Paul Hill — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:24:01 +0000

Linux Mint 21 is now in the beta stage and can be downloaded by the public. It's not recommended that you install it on production machines because critical bugs may cause you problems. Read more...

Linux Mint 20.3 beta arrives for people to test before the final release

Paul Hill — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:16:01 +0000

Linux Mint 20.3 beta has been released to the public. The beta period should run for a couple of weeks before the final build is issued. In this article, we take a quick look over the new features. Read more...

Linux Mint 19.3 ‘Tricia' now available in three editions

Paul Hill — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:54:01 +0000

Linux Mint 19.3 is finally available for download. The new update is the last in the 19.x series before work begins on Linux Mint 20. This update contains several new features and the new branding. Read more...

Linux Mint 19.2 released to the general public

Paul Hill — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:46:01 +0000

Linux Mint 19.2 has been made available for public use. It comes in three editions; Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. Each brings unique features suited to different users and now they're more refined. Read more...

Linux Mint 19.2 ‘Tina' is approaching release, final testing underway

Paul Hill — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:04:01 +0000

Clement Lefebvre, head of the Linux Mint project, has announced that Linux Mint 19.2 should be available to the public by the end of the week. The ISOs are undergoing quality analysis now. Read more...

Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce beta ISOs released

Paul Hill — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 04:30:01 +0000

The team behind Linux Mint have pushed the beta images of Linux Mint 19.2. The betas are available in Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce editions. The final release will come once more bugs are fixed. Read more...

Linux Mint 19.1 betas released in anticipation for full release this month

Paul Hill — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 20:46:01 +0000

The Linux Mint project has pushed the betas for the upcoming Linux Mint 19.1 release. There are still bugs lingering so if you run into any, be sure to report them so they can be fixed. Read more...

Linux Mint 19 ‘Tara' officially released - here's what's new

Paul Hill — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:42:01 +0000

The Linux Mint team has finally announced the general availability of Linux Mint 19. For those looking to upgrade from Mint 18.3, you'll have to wait slightly longer for instructions. Read more...

Linux Mint 19 betas arrive promising upgrade path from Mint 18.3

Paul Hill — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 18:14:01 +0000

The Linux Mint team has officially released the beta builds of the Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce editions of Linux Mint 19. The update brings speed and security improvements and a new theme for Cinnamon. Read more...

Linux Mint team release KDE and Xfce Sonya betas

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 04:26:02 +0000

The Linux Mint team has released two new beta ISOs for the KDE and Xfce editions. The releases join the Cinnamon and MATE editions which entered public beta testing under two weeks ago. Read more...

Linux Mint 18 Xfce beta is out

Paul Hill — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 06:36:01 +0000

The Linux Mint 18 Xfce beta has been released. It brings with it the familiar changes we are all aware of that Mint 18 brings to all the other spins. Xfce is still on 4.12 as it is in Mint 17.3. Read more...

Debian drops Xfce, reinstates GNOME as default desktop

Rob Schorman — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:52:00 +0000

Three months ago, Debian's developers chose to replace GNOME with the Xfce desktop environment. It seems that the next release will use GNOME 3 after all, just like Linus Torvalds himself now Read more...

Debian drops GNOME, chooses Xfce as default desktop

Rob Schorman — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:32:34 +0000

For many years, the standard desktop environment of Debian has been GNOME. However the next release of the Linux distribution will use Xfce as the default environment, but for a strange reason. Read more...