Re: [Ambassadors] Re: [Fedora-marketing-list] XFCE as third official desktop?
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Am Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:11:05 +0530
schrieb Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org>:
GNOME and KDE are not anymore official in Fedora than XFCE is. Fedora
Core 6 installer includes the ability to install applications from
Fedora Extras repository. So the end users would be able to do a
network based installation and select XFCE as default. This has been
made relatively easy.
Okay, but "normal" users could get the impress that GNOME and KDE are
more "official" than XFCE. But anyway thanks for the correction.
So as I wrote before my friends have already moved to fedora but they
were a little bit surprised that XFCE wasn't available at Fedora Core 5
installer. So at the moment they've got a fedora core 5 system with
XFCE and (a never used) GNOME. They selected GNOME because it's more
like XFCE then KDE and it's never wrong to have a fallback option ;-)
We are also discussing some changes in the release strategy including
availability of extras packages in media. So essentially eliminating
any practical differences between these repositories at the end user
level potentially as close as the next release. I guess that should
satisfy your friends and fans of other alternative window managers
included in Fedora Extras.
I think that many people would be happy about that.
Regards
Heiko
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