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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