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Re: Lubuntu 11.10 released

 

Congratulations everyone :D
WOW, I'm about to fly from being HAPPY :D

HOOHAA, finally ... YES :D

Ok, not to be over excited ... :)

I tried to update the Wiki but someone beat me to it ;)
I updated this though: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu

Will check if anything else need to be updated :)

WELL DONE!



On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Mario Behling <mb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks,
>
> if anyone has time, please update the wiki area on
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu and put up the links to the torrent
> etc.
>
> Google release day too!
>
> Mario
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Just to be complete, on this release day, I strongly encourage people to
> use
> > torrent to download ISO.
> > There is also a mirror available in France :
> > http://lubuntu.lafibre.info/11.10/
> >
> > Good release day :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Julien Lavergne
> >
> > Le 10/13/2011 07:28 PM, Julien Lavergne a écrit :
> >
> > Lubuntu 11.10 is now available :
> >
> >  * http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/11.10/release/
> >
> > == What is Lubuntu ? ==
> >
> > Lubuntu 11.10 is a brand new flavor of Ubuntu based on the Lightweight
> > X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE), as its default GUI.  The goal is to
> > provide a very lightweight distribution, with all the advantages of the
> > Ubuntu world (repositories, support, etc.). Lubuntu is targeted at
> > "normal" PC and laptop users running on low-spec hardware. Such users
> > may not know how to use command line tools, and in most cases they just
> > don't have enough resources for all the bells and whistles of the
> > "full-featured" mainstream distributions.
> >
> > With many LXDE components, Lubuntu also uses well-known applications,
> > such as Chromium, Openbox, Pidgin, to name a few. The Lubuntu project
> > wiki contains more information on the project and the applications used
> > available.
> >
> > == Features ==
> >
> >  * Based on the lightweight LXDE desktop environment.
> >  * Pcmanfm 0.9.9, a fast and lightweight files manager using gio/gvfs.
> >  * Lxdm, a lightweight GTK display manager.
> >  * Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome.
> >  * ... and, of course, based on Ubuntu 11.10.
> >
> > See the complete list of applications on
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Applications
> >
> >
> > == Improvements since Lubuntu 11.04 ==
> >  * ISOs are now build with Ubuntu official build system.
> >  * Alternate ISOs are available.
> >  * Many updates from LXDE (most components had official releases).
> >  * Build with recommended packages by default.
> >  * Use recommends instead of depends for most of components of
> > lubuntu-desktop meta-package.
> >  * Register correctly LXDE as a desktop environment by xdg tools.
> >  * Switch to xfce4-power-manager for power management.
> >  * Add a microblog client : pidgin-microblog.
> >  * New theme made by Rafael Laguna.
> >
> >
> > == Releases notes and known issues ==
> > The release notes, with a list of known problems are available on
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/ReleaseNotes/OneiricOcelot
> >
> >
> > == Reporting bugs ==
> > You can find information on how to report bug on this wiki page :
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/ReportingBugs
> >
> > == Thanks ==
> >
> > I would like to thanks all people involved in the development of Lubuntu
> > during this past 6 months : LXDE developers, people helping on IRC,
> > testing ISOs, reporting bugs, making documentation and artwork ...
> > It was a pleasure to work with all of you.
> >
> > == Links ==
> >
> >  * Website : http://lubuntu.net/
> >  * Documentation : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu
> >  * LXDE website : http://lxde.org/
> >  * Announcement: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Announcement/11.10
>
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