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Re: Xfce 4.12 to be released next week!
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2015, 03:08:23 AM »
 

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For those wanting to try out XFCE 4.12 early both Manjaro and Xubuntu have built Xfce 4.12 distros already.

Manjaro gives you xfce 4.12 on an Arch Linux base and rolling distro updates to the latest versions of Xfce:

http://manjaro.github.io/Manjaro-XFCE-0.9.0-dev-XFCE-412/
I really like this Manjaro version with Xfce 4.12 it is fricking fast!!! Just google how to add Ubuntu fonts to Manjaro and you get awesome fonts and a fricking fast Xfce 4.12 distro!

Xubuntu gives you Xfce 4.12 on an Ubuntu Linux base:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Xubuntu-15-04-Beta-1-Arrives-with-Xfce-4-12-Packages-Gorgeous-Theme-and-Wallpaper-Gallery-474381.shtml

And for intermediate users Xfce 4.12 ppa for installing xfce 4.12 on any Ubuntu flavor:

https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/ubuntu/xfce-4.12

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Re: Xfce 4.12 to be released next week!
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2015, 06:19:41 PM »
 

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The good thing about XFCE is the developers move slow and aim not to break between releases. And I missed adding Whisker Menu updated to 1.50.

I also forgot to add in these links as they'll help check the roadmap, critical bugs list (fixed and open) and individual

Roadmap:
https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.12/roadmap

Critical Bugs List:
https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.12/roadmap/critical-bugs

News with some individual package changlog links to save some time:
http://blog.alteroot.org/articles/2014-07-26/news-from-xfce.html

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Re: Xfce 4.12 to be released next week!
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2015, 08:23:46 AM »
 

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... We generally don't add bleeding edge Desktop environments to a stable OS, kinda risky! ...

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Re: Xfce 4.12 to be released next week!
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2015, 08:09:38 AM »
 

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Thanx for explanations Jerry , makes sense .
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Re: Xfce 4.12 to be released next week!
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2015, 08:04:56 AM »
 

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Unfortunately it's not as easy as just adding the XFCE repo and installing it to LL. We generally don't add bleeding edge Desktop environments to a stable OS, kinda risky! Especially considering how heavily modified LL is. We'll see how this evolves after release.
 

Re: Xfce 4.12 to be released next week!
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2015, 06:50:41 AM »
 

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Thanx for sharing , might as well be included on next LL release .
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Xfce 4.12 to be released next week!
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2015, 05:21:59 AM »
 

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I'm thinking with the new Xfce 4.12 coming out and Ubuntu 14.04.2 with the 3.16 Linux kernel already out that this could be a great next update to LL.

Simon Steinbeiß of Xfce announced this week that a string freeze for 4.12 would go into effect on Friday (today), in allowing translators one week to tidy up their translations. The announcement indicates that Xfce 4.12 is still gearing up to be out the door next weekend, 28 February / 1 March.

Unlike failed Xfce 4.12 plans of the past few years, it looks like this release will actually pan out in one week's time.

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Intel is heavily investing in the latest kernels for incrwsong the speed and features supported of their integrated graphics on the newer CPUs. Any improvement that is good for gaming is attractive to Windows switchers IMHO.


- Initial support for Cherryview, the upcoming Atom SoC update with Broadwell derived graphics.

- Support for large cursors. On HiDPI displays rather than limiting to 64x64 cursors, cursors can now be up to the hardware limit of 256x256 pixels.

- Work towards atomic page-flipping.

- Run-time Power Management is now enabled by default for new platforms.

- Universal primary plane support is now in good shape.

- Improved out-of-memory handling.

- Command parser work for some OpenGL/OpenCL features of Haswell.

- Userptr support to let user-space wrap up any malloc'ed allocations into GEM buffer objects.

- Broadwell now supports eDRAM, GPU Turbo, and VEBOX2 support.

- GPU reset improvements.

- Prep work for Dynamic Refresh Rate Switching (DRRS).

- and more...
 

 

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