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[Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Cancel the bit about Chromium, it's that annoying 'feature' it has of adding
some additional text onto the end of an URL !!

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Julien,
>
> The link for the direct download reports back as broken in Chromium, it's
> downloading via Firefox okay though ??!!
>
> As soon as I have the iso and have md5'd it, I'll get it put onto the
> server. I recall you said you can host it for 6 days?
>
> Is the self-test of the cd now working, or should I update the instructions
> for the a3.
>
> Excellent work, I'm looking forward to finally getting Maverick Lubuntu
> onto my system :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The Lubuntu Maverick Alpha 3 iso is now available for testing.
>>
>> Please note that Lubuntu Maverick is based on Ubuntu Maverick, same
>> warning apply :
>>
>> "Pre-releases of Maverick are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a
>> stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional,
>> even frequent breakage.  They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu
>> developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing
>> bugs."
>>
>> == What's new ? ==
>> Since Alpha 2 :
>> - New theme, made by Rafael Laguna
>> - New slideshow available during the installation
>> - Lubuntu include now some small games, powered by ace-of-penguins.
>> - Evince is now used for reading PDF.
>> - LXDE is now HAL-free. Lubuntu still depends on HAL for CD-burner, but
>> by removing it, you can obtain a HAL-free system.
>> - And the usual updates of LXDE and Lubuntu components packages.
>>
>> Since the beginning of Maverick :
>> - Updates on programs installed by default :
>>  * Update-notifier was added
>>  * Xpad was added
>>  * Parcellite was removed
>>  * Pyneighborhood was removed
>>  * LXtask was added, to replace Xfce4-taskmanager
>> - A new meta-package (lubuntu-core) is available to install only core
>> packages of Lubuntu.
>> - A new meta-package (lubuntu-restricted-extras) is available to install
>> restricted packages for Lubutnu (such as flash, java and extra codecs
>> for chromium)
>> - Add support for indicator applets on lxpanel (turn off by default)
>> - And the usual Ubuntu updates.
>>
>> == Specific Lubuntu changes ==
>> Lubuntu contains 2 specific changes still not available on Ubuntu
>> official repository :
>> - Support for lxdm in ubiquity
>> - Lubuntu slideshow for ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu
>>
>> == Testing needed ==
>> We'll appreciate some feedbacks about the followings recent additions :
>> - The slideshow, especially the text, to be able to start translation.
>> - Feedback on the new theme.
>>
>> == Known bugs ==
>> * Start menu of the Live-CD is not correctly translated.
>> * Install menu entry in the Live-CD doesn't work.
>> * Keyboard layout is not correctly set on the Live-CD session.
>> * The splash screen on Live-CD session may fall-back to Ubuntu text one.
>>
>> == Reporting bugs ==
>> You can find information on how to report bug on this wiki page :
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/ReportingBugs
>>
>> == Download ==
>> Torrent:
>> http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-maverick-alpha3.iso.torrent
>> Download: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-maverick-alpha3.iso
>> Md5 <http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-maverick-alpha3.isoMd5>:
>> http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/md5sum.txt
>>
>> Happy testing :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Julien Lavergne
>>
>>
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