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A New Spin on the Xfce Window Manager

“Xfce isn’t for everyone, but for servers or minimal desktop
systems, it’s just what the doctor ordered. Rather lightweight in
Window Manager terms–weighing in at around 63MB–Xfce arrives with
a full complement of applications from Abiword, gnumeric, and
pidgin to CD/DVD burning software (Brasero), Thunar File Manager,
and a host of administrative applications. For this article, I am
reviewing the Xfce Fedora Spin based on Fedora 8 and Xfce4.

“A Spin is a hip, new term for a Live CD image. All Fedora 8
Spins are available on the Fedora Spins Project Tracker page as
torrent downloads. If you don’t have a bit torrent client, you can
pick up the software for any OS at The BitTorrent Website…”

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