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[Zoltan Matlak <matlakzoli@xxxxxxxxx>]

On DistroWatch.com Page Hit Ranking for last 7 days Lubuntu is #5. Way to go!

Zoltan

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it's a good time to do a quick summarize of the state of the
> development of Lubuntu.
>
> == About Lubuntu in the *buntu family ==
>
> As you may know, Lubuntu will probably not be officially part of the
> *buntu family. It doesn't mean we will never be part of it.
>
> More important, it will not stop us to release an iso. The question will
> be : what is the statut of this iso. Stable ? Final ? RC ? Beta ? For
> now, I'm inclined to make the statut RC, to mark we are not officially
> in Ubuntu, but target to have a stable release.
>
> Target for this release is still like others *buntu, end of April. We
> may have some delay, depending of the state of Lubuntu at this time.
>
>
> == About the state of Lubuntu ==
>
> There are several main components which are very young : pcmanfm was
> rewritten, and lxdm is quite new. I think the current state of pcmanfm
> is quite good. For lxdm, due to many changes in the boot process of
> Ubuntu, it was quite unstable during Lucid. I hope main issues are
> resolved with the version in Beta2.
>
> To be general, I'm quite happy with the performance result so far,
> memory usage is low, CPU usage not too bad. I'm still think it needs
> many more tests. General use cases should be ok, but intensive and
> not-classic use cases can be more problematic. That's why reporting bugs
> is important :-) We also lack some features for everyday uses. As we
> can't fix them for this release, some works will remain for futur
> release :-)
>
> To summarize, it's a good starting point, a preview of what Lubuntu is
> capable.
>
> Feedbacks over the web are mostly positive, it's a nice indicator, but
> doesn't mean it's perfect.
>
> To finish, it's not a technical point of view, but I think we have the
> best artwork of all *buntu version ;-)
>
>
> == About the work needed ==
>
> There are still a lot of works to do, I'll do a summarize when the final
> release will be out. For now, keep testing and report bugs please :-)
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
>
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