XFCE on F21 desktop

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Sun Nov 23 18:50:53 UTC 2014


On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:47:08 +0100
poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23.11.2014 18:48, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:33:29 +0100
> > Heinz Diehl <htd+ml at fritha.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> up to F20, I used the respective 4 GB full DVD image to install
> >> Fedora, which also contained the XFCE desktop. Now, with F21,
> >> there's a desktop and a server edition, and it seems the full DVD
> >> is missing.
> > 
> > Right. There is no mish mash dvd anymore. 
> > 
> 
> Perhaps mishmash-ed is decision to drop something useful to many
> folks around the globe.

It's perfectly easy to make your own dvd with whatever you like on it. 
Or install whatever you want from Fedora many other ways. 

> >> Does the desktop edition also contain the XFCE desktop, or do I
> >> have to use any XFCE spin now to get XFCE? And where are all the
> >> development packages and libs, are they still on both editions?
> > 
> > Workstation does not have the Xfce packages on the media. 
> > You can of course install Workstation, then 'yum groupinstall
> > xfce-desktop'. 
> > 
> 
> This is a joke?
> Man asks for Xfce and you're offering GNOME "wrapped" as Workstation, 
> only to be able to install what he needs.
> You, as the maintainer of the Xfce group.

No, it's ONE option of a list of them.... (see the ones below which you
didn't respond to). 
 
> > You can also use the Xfce spin images, which haven't gone anywhere. 
> > 
> > You could also get the network installer and choose Xfce when you
> > install. 
> > 
> > development packages and libs aren't on any images that I know of,
> > but you can install them with yum or dnf or the like after install. 

kevin

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