Running 2.6.27 on F11 instead of 2.6.29

[Suvayu Ali]

john wendel wrote:
> Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> I want to upgrade mostly because of XFCE 4.6. I wanted to get rid of 
>> Gnome completely and move to XFCE and Windowmaker. Gnome is too slow 
>> even on high-end hardware like mine. Sometimes simply opening Firefox 
>> or Thunderbird takes ages(5-10s). If someone were to tell me XFCE 4.6 
>> would be available in F10 I would abandon all this jumping through 
>> hoops right away. :)
>>
> You don't need to upgrade to try XFCE 4.6. I'm running XFCE 4.6 on an F8 
> box. Just get the installer from the XFCE site and run it. You can 
> install in a local directory under your home directory, so it won't 
> touch anything else on your F10 system.
> 
> Then add the following it your .bash_profile :
> 
>   PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/xfce4.6/bin:$PATH
> 
> Switch to run-level 3 and run "startxfce4" and you're there.
> 

Hi John,

Do you have a link for the installer? I can't seem to find any from 
xfce.org. I however found a mirror from a post at forum.xfce.org.

http://mocha.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.6.0/installers/

Are these the ones I should be downloading?

-- 
Suvayu

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