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Coming up in this episode

• A little Musing on CDE
• A few answers from the man himself
• The history of XFce
• How it went
• And a new journey

0:00 Cold Open
1:29 Ask Olivier
20:04 Xfce History: In the Beginning (1996)
22:08 Enter XFce (1997)
24:47 The XForms Problem (1998)
25:56 The Third (1999)
29:32 The Fourth (2001-2015)
32:59 The Third, Again (2016-2023)
36:22 More Questions!
45:50 How'd Xfce Go?
1:02:25 Next Time
1:09:45 Stinger

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• Olivier Fourdan posted a question to a few newsgroups that got things started.
• XForms toolkit
• An early release announcement - 2.3.0
• Changelog for 2.4.0 which shows changes all the way back to the beginning.
• XFce 2.4 User Guide
• XFce 3.2 User Guide
• 2000 Interview - 10 Questions with Olivier Fourdan
• 2001 Interview
• XFce 4.0 announcement September 25th 2003
• xfce goes all lowercase
• 2007 Interview
• 2009 Linux Journal Interview
• 2009 Slashgear Interview
• 2017 Interview with Sean Davis
• Xfce 4.4 - 4.18

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