When a new Fedora is released, I immediately fetch the Live Xfce Spin .iso. As a Gnome hater, I want to avoid that entrapment. I've always found Xfce perfectly suited for me.
This crucial piece of the release is missing at all the mirror sites I've visited and, indeed, the file that lists checksums for all the Spins omits mention of the Xfce-Live version. I've been hoping and expecting this omission to be corrected, but it's been over a week. I did find one place: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/xfce/download/index.html that offers to "Download Fedora 29 Xfce Desktop", and I have done so. However, there's no checksum that I've been able to discover. This webpage has a frightening all-black notice: Although this spin failed to compose for the final release, this test compose contains fixes over the final content to allow for a successful compose and should meet most users' needs. You can verify the test compose image with a dedicated CHECKSUM file for 64-bit and 32-bit images. I would be grateful for someone to translate this into plain English. I think it means that there's something wrong with this .iso image, but I can use it, maybe. So, what's the story? When can we expect the official F29 Live Xfce .iso image to become available? I do hope this is not an ominous portent of things to come, a la KDE. If I had the power, the Live Xfce Spin would be a release blocker, but I don't. I realize there's a powerful faction at Redhat that insists that Gnome is the One True Way. They're wrong. -- David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC d...@datix.us www.datix.us _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
