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A new start for the Xfce SIG
It’s not that the Xfce SIG did a bad job during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Far from it! We did very well: The F12 Xfce Spin is the best release so far and according to Christian, one of the Xfce...
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Spins suck!
Life is hard when you are maintaining a Fedora spin. Why? Because spins suck, at least that’s what I was told. Instead of focusing on the spins, we should rather work on the installer and have a...
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FUDCon Tempe day 1
It’s already the second day of FUDCon and I am writing about yesterday. I was just too busy to blog. We have way more sessions than we have slots, so many talks were merged. Yesterday I attended Fedora...
View ArticleXfce 4.8 for F14 now ready
I have updated my Xfce 4.8 repository at and it is fairly complete. Some packages however are now obsolete: thunar-shares-plugin: dead upstream, would needed to be ported from thunar-vfs to gvfs....
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The Linus effect
On July 26th Linus said he switched to Xfce because he doesn’t like GNOME 3. Guess what happens when someone picked up the news yesterday:
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Meet you at the Desktop Summit
I initially planed to go to the Desktop Summit on Thursday because of our Kolab track on Friday, but then I changed my mind because of the talks and the Lightweight Desktop Summit, the annual meeting...
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Looking back at FrOSCon 2011
Last weekend the 6th FrOSCon took place in St Augustin. Once again it was a nice event, but this time we tried something new: A Fedora Activity Day (FAD) as part of the conference. I arrived at St...
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