The default desktop task has been changed from GNOME to Xfce within the Tasksel Git. While one might assume the change is due to the criticism expressed by many GNOME users since the 3.x series — with some saying it’s losing its relevance on the Linux desktop — the main reason expressed within the Git commit comes down to Xfce being able to fit entirely on the first Debian CD.
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Raspbian-based SD card image released
We are pleased to announce the release of our first SD card image based on the Raspbian distribution. This is the result of an enormous amount of hard work by Alex and Dom over the past couple of months, and replaces the existing Debian squeeze image as our recommended install. Notably, it is the first official image to take full advantage of the Raspberry Pi’s floating point hardware for, amongst other things, much faster web browsing.
CentOS 64 bit bad ELF interpreter
You’re on a 64-bit system, and don’t have 32-bit library support installed.
sudo yum install glibc.i686
via linux – CentOS 64 bit bad ELF interpreter – Stack Overflow.
Also had to yum install gtk2.i686. Here’s the solution from the above link for Debian based systems:
Updated: Since it seems this answer is still getting viewed, and occassionally up-voted, note that the solution above works on CentOS, Fedora, or Red Hat derived operating systems; on a Debian or Ubuntu derived system, however, one would instead use
sudo apt-get install ia32-lib
For some reason, after all these years of using 64 bit OSs, and still having an active, running FC10 installation, this was the first time I had no choice but to run a 32-bit app on a 64 bit machine.
The above solution worked