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| 2005-01-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Xfld 0.2 |
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Xfld is a Linux live CD with the XFce desktop; the new version 0.2 comes with the just released XFce 4.2.0. From the release announcement: "Today, the team of os-cillation has released Xfld version 0.2. Plenty of changes and updates have been made: XFce Desktop Environment has been updated to version 4.2.0; the underlying OS has been updated to KNOPPIX 3.7; the Mozilla websuite has been replaced with Firefox and Thunderbird; various KDE applications have been replaced with lighter alternatives; all packages contained have been updated to their latest versions; most KNOPPIX packages have been replaced with Xfld packages; the startup time has been reduced; numerous suggestions from Xfld 0.1 users have been considered in the development process." Download: xfld-0_2-en.iso (641MB) or xfld-0_2-de.iso (641MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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| Xfld is an Ubuntu-based distribution for common i386 machines which are able to boot from a CD-ROM. Xfld provides approximately 2 GB of (transparently compressed) software. Among those you can find tools like the GIMP, OpenOffice.org, which is partly compatible with Microsoft Office, Mozilla for browsing the web, Apache web server and many more. Xfld features Xfce as its default desktop environment.
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| 2006-10-30 |
Distribution Release: Xfld 0.3 |
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Oliver Schweissgut has announced the release of Xfld 0.3, a Xubuntu-based live and installation CD featuring the latest development build of Xfce: "The os-cillation team is happy to announce the release of Xfld 0.3. Xfld is a live demo of the Xfce desktop environment, version 4.4. Xfld boots from a CD-ROM drive and provides a complete GNU/Linux operating environment without the need to install anything. The new release features applications and tools like Xfce 4.4rc1 with Thunar, OpenOffice.org 2.0.4, GIMP 2.2.13, Firefox 2.0, Thunderbird 1.5, AbiWord 2.4.5, Wireshark 0.99.3a, Ruby, Python and Perl... Xfld 0.3 is now based on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy), instead of plain Debian as before." Visit the project's home page to read the complete release announcement. Download the English and German editions from here (MD5): xfld-0.3-en.iso (697MB), xfld-0.3-de.iso (697MB).
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