Linux Mint Xfce is the first Community Edition of Linux Mint, made by and for the Linux Mint Community.

Linux Mint Xfce is the first Community Edition of Linux Mint, made by and for the Linux Mint Community. This edition is maintained by Merlwiz79 and aims at replacing Gnome with the XFCE desktop.

This edition is based on Cassandra and comes with the following mint tools:

· mintUpdate
· mintUpload
· mintInstall
· mintDisk
· An XFCE adaptation of mintConfig

Although very similar to the Main edition, the XFCE Community Edition runs faster and takes less resources. This is ideal for older computers.

What's New in This Release:

· This is the first BETA release of the XFCE Community Edition for Linux Mint 5, codename Elyssa, based on Daryna and compatible with Ubuntu Hardy and its repositories. All mint applications were improved in Elyssa. For the list improvements of mintUpdate, mintUpload and mintInstall, read the Elyssa Main release notes... mintUpdate was refactored and its memory usage was drastically reduced. On some systems the amount of RAM used by mintUpdate after a few days went from 100MB to 6MB. Mozilla also greatly improved the memory usage in Firefox between version 2 and 3. Elyssa comes with kernel version 2.6.24 which features a brand new scheduler called CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler). The kernel scheduler is responsible for the CPU time allocated to each process. With CFS the rules have changed.