Install Xfce4.8 via PPA in Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04

Few days ago xfce4.8 was released, this new release comes with many new features and improvements, Xfce users  are now able to browse remote shares using a variety of protocols (SFTP, SMB, FTP and many more), panel application has been rewrittenthereby improving positioning, transparency, item and launcher management.

Find more about this release in this Link

 

If you want to test this new release in Ubuntu 10.10, there is a PPA available , simply open terminal and enter the following commands:


<strong>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:koshi/xfce-4.8</strong><br /><strong>sudo apt-get update</strong><br /><strong>sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop</strong><br />