The History of Xfce 🐁

The History of Xfce, from its inception during CDE’s downfall, to its inclusion for the first time in major distros, and finally to today where it sits as (according to some) third place in the Great Desktop Environment War.

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The History of Xfce
Olivier Fourdan posted a question to a few newsgroups that got things started
https://www.linux.co.cr/desktops/review/1997/0218.html
XForms toolkit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XForms_(toolkit)
An early release announcement – 2.3.0
https://www.linux.co.cr/desktops/review/1999/0110-a.html
Changelog for 2.4.0 which shows changes all the way back to the beginning.
https://www.linux.co.cr/desktops/review/1999/0317-b.txt
XFce 2.4 User Guide
https://www.linux.co.cr/desktops/review/1999/xfce-2.4/en/index.html
XFce 3.2 User Guide
https://www.linux.co.cr/desktops/review/1999/xfce-3.2/help.html
2000 Interview – 10 Questions with Olivier Fourdan
https://web.archive.org/web/20001017144724/http://www.linuxorbit.com/features/interview1.php3
2001 Interview
https://web.archive.org/web/20010603075344/http://www.moongroup.com/stories.php?story=01/05/01/0821338
XFce 4.0 announcement September 25th 2003
https://web.archive.org/web/20031002123938/http://www.xfce.org/en/press_release_en.html
xfce goes all lowercase
https://web.archive.org/web/20040607035013/http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=news&lang=en
2007 Interview
https://web.archive.org/web/20070116201506/http://linuxgazette.net/issue43/jacobowitz.xfce.html
2009 Linux Journal Interview
https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/xfce-third-man
2009 Slashgear Interview
https://www.slashgear.com/xfce-creator-talks-linux-moblin-netbooks-and-open-source-0633329/
2017 Interview with Sean Davis
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/interview-xfce.html
Xfce 4.4 – 4.18
https://xfce.org/about/news

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