Linux Top 3: Xfce, Quirky and Tails 1.3

March 3, 2015 By Sean Michael Kerner

1) Xfce 4.12

After nearly three years of development Xfce 4.12 was released on February 28, marking the first official major version update since the Xfce 4.10 release.

This long period can only be explained by how awesome Xfce 4.10 was. But as all things, it needed some refreshing - and for that we saw lots of new contributors providing valuable feedback, features and bugfixes. As always, Xfce follows its steady pace of evolution without revolution that seems to match our users' needs.

Among the improvements in Xfce 4.12 are:

2) TAILS 1.3

The Amensic Incognito Live System (TAILS) debuted its 1.3 release on February 24, fixing at least 18 different security issues. All of those issues are upstream issues in Debian, which is the base on which TAILS is built and the Tor Browser, which itself is based on Mozilla's Firefox.

Tails is a privacy focused Linux operating system, loaded with multiple types of tools to help users stay private.

Aside from the security updates, Tails 1.3 includes the Electrum bitcoin wallet

There is also an interesting update to support even more privacy on Tor. According to the release notes:

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