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OSNews: XFce-4–A Refreshingly Solid Desktop

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“I think the best thing you can say about XFce-4 is that it is
stable. In my over 6 months of using XFce-4 (used CVS before the
release), I have only had one crash (and this was during the CVS
version as well). Some other popular Desktop Environments seem too
complex for their own good. XFce-4 was a perfect match for me. It
had everything that I like in a Desktop Environment, without any of
the bloat found elsewhere. XFce 4.0.2 was released yesterday…

“XFce-4 is as fast as any Window Manager/Desktop Environment on
my Pentium4 2Ghz, 256MB of RAM, and Geforce4MX. I recently compared
it to fluxbox and Windowmaker, some of my other favorites, and
there was basically no increase in speed or reduction of memory
usage. The entire Environment feels more responsive…”

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