So I’ve been curious about XFCE for some time now, but I never seem to find the time to install it for a test-drive. So today I decided to go for it, while waiting for some other things to finish. I grabbed the SuSE 9.3 binaries and installed them using RPM. The whole procedure took three minutes, including modifying some start-up files.
I re-started the X server and logged onto XFCE. Everything worked. I spent some time customizing it and have now been running it since this morning. It’s lightweight, it’s fast, and it doesn’t hog system resources as much as GNOME (and the much worse KDE) does. Both Gnome and KDE have their advantages, both in applications and in “bells ‘n’ whistles”, but if you don’t need it, and you want to cruise at or close to light-speed, you’ll want to give XFCE a go.
Very nice! If you’re using X, give XFCE a try, I think you’ll like it.
It’d be nice if future versions of SuSE could allow me to choose between GNOME, KDE and/or XFCE during installation.
With too much to do, the (for me) long awaited upgrade to SuSE 10.0 on my primary workstation at the office have had to wait until this week. I’ve now finally managed to get my fingers out and upgrade from 9.3 to 10.0. The actual upgrade procedure went ve