XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

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XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by machinebacon » Sun Jul 06, 2014 4:54 am

You like it crunchy? Here you are -- Roasted Roach, a new and improved XFCE4 edition with a lot of extras:

- no policykit/udisks bullshit
- Xfe file manager
- Mountpy device and partition mounter
- Iceweasel web browser
- Sylpheed mail client
- gpicview image viewer
- Xpdf document viewer
- Faenza icon theme
- NumixBBQ GTK theme
- linuxbbq Xresource color theme
- installation size ~1GB

Username: user
Password: bbq

Download (404MB) at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... CE%20Base/
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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by vic » Sun Jul 06, 2014 7:27 am

With a candy name like that it just has to be checked out. Very candy scrots.too.
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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by paolo » Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:29 am

Nice !
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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by GekkoP » Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:32 am

Very pleasant colors too.

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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by bones » Sun Jul 06, 2014 2:30 pm

Very nice, bacon, I love that you are using xfe, my favorite GUI file manager!

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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sun Jul 06, 2014 6:57 pm

Me gusta.

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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by Alad » Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:59 pm

Might try this on my laptop as taxes are filed (and thus, Windows). Didn't know on mountpy. :)
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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by pidsley » Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:07 pm

Installed and working well here.

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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Jul 07, 2014 8:38 am

^ looks really good.

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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Jul 07, 2014 4:19 pm

Tried live. Everything fine as usual. Looks really good to me. :)

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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by machinebacon » Mon Jul 07, 2014 4:34 pm

Thanks for testing and for the feedback ;)
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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by Alad » Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:01 pm

Fun roach'n. :)

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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by james c » Fri Jul 11, 2014 6:02 am

Did a quick install the other night.Looking solid so far.

Main mod so far was installing a 686-pae kernel.

Impressive release.

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Re: XFCE4: Roasted Roach (486) Release Notes

Unread post by squirrel182 » Thu Jul 17, 2014 1:12 am

This is an awesome release, I'm really enjoying it. Thanks!

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