Xfce Forum

imr

Member

Registered: 2008-04-28

Posts: 4

Mandriva Xfce live edition.

Hi all,

A few of us Mandriva community contributors are doing a xfce live community version of mandriva.
Soon available in contrib public mirrors, it's already there for you to test:
ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pu … /xfcelive/

It is still a work in progress, and it should continue on evolving, but we are
already interrested in all bug reports, remarks and suggestion you might
have, especially in the area of localisation, usability and application choice.
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/XfceLive

There are 3 versions, int, asia and extra-i18n, and there is 64 bits live version.
The list of rpm are in each version directory.
More info here:
http://mcc.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php … e.Download

So please,  test this iso if you can, or ask any user you might know of that
would be interrested to test it or to contact me.
You can join us on #mandriva-xfce on irc.freenode.net.

Also, if you know any site which should be told about this version, just do it,
or give me the link.
Thanks a lot,
rémi

imr

Member

Registered: 2008-04-28

Posts: 4

Re: Mandriva Xfce live edition.

Somebody asked how to install it. Once In Live mode, the installation Menu is in the Mandriva Menu > Parameters > Live Install

edward

Member

From: Boston

Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 11

Re: Mandriva Xfce live edition.

On all of my Mandriva installations, I started with GNOME first, then installed XFCE afterwards, this was before the existence of the Mandriva XFCE edition. 

Even installing this way, it was very easy, select one package:  task-xfce and the installer downloaded the necessary packages and installed it.  I am amazed at how well XFCE runs on my 10-year old Pentium 1 system.

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Chriswaterguy

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Registered: 2008-07-03

Posts: 1

Re: Mandriva Xfce live edition.

Even installing this way, it was very easy, select one package:  task-xfce and the installer downloaded the necessary packages and installed it.  I am amazed at how well XFCE runs on my 10-year old Pentium 1 system.

If I already have Mandriva 2008 Spring (Gnome) installed, is this a better way to try out XFCE, rather than using the LiveCD?

I would be nice to have the option to try XFCE, without having to completely reinstall if it doesn't suit me.

Thanks

edward

Member

From: Boston

Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 11

Re: Mandriva Xfce live edition.

Even installing this way, it was very easy, select one package:  task-xfce and the installer downloaded the necessary packages and installed it.  I am amazed at how well XFCE runs on my 10-year old Pentium 1 system.

If I already have Mandriva 2008 Spring (Gnome) installed, is this a better way to try out XFCE, rather than using the LiveCD?

I would be nice to have the option to try XFCE, without having to completely reinstall if it doesn't suit me.

Thanks

Yes.

What the Live CD installed, is based on the task-xfce-minimal package that is listed in the Mandriva Control Center under Install & Remove Software.  If you choose to install the task-xfce package, it will install the packages based on task-xfce-minimal, in addition to those based on task-xfce.

Whether you choose to install task-xfce or task-xfce-minimal, either will provide you with the XFCE desktop.  It continues to run well on my Pentium system. 

Hope this helps.

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