Julien, brilliant work. I am so proud to have been and remain a small part of getting Lubuntu to the people for whom it can really make a difference.
You devs work in mysterious ways, but the fact that Lubuntu edges ever nearer to full adoption is wonderful. Just do remember, once released - no running away :D Thanks for all your work, to both lubuntu team & the ubuntu team. You have done a fantastic job. Phill. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Julien Lavergne <gi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi Ubuntu developers, > > New images have pop up on cdimage.ubuntu.com [1]. Finally, Lubuntu is > out of the Ubuntu factory :) [2] > > For people who don't know Lubuntu, this is a quick presentation. Lubuntu > is a distribution based on Ubuntu, and the LXDE desktop environnement. > The main goal is to provide a very lightweight distribution, but with > all the advantages of the Ubuntu world (repositories, support ...). > Currently we are using : > - Chromium for the browser > - Openbox for the windows manager > - Pcmanfm for the file manager > - Abiword + Gnumeric for office work > - Pidgin for IM > - Audacious for playing music > - Gnome-mplayer for videos > - Some GNOME components : evince, file-roller, gnome-keyring > - Most of the LXDE components > You can find the complete list of applications by default on the wiki > [3]. > > After 2 years of work, and 3 "unofficial" releases (10.04, 10.10 and > 11.04), we had recently an official go from the Technical Board and ISO > images are now made like other Ubuntu flavors. I hope the 11.10 will be > the 1st official release of Lubuntu as a member of the Ubuntu family :) > > We have 2 important particularities. Like Xubuntu, we use another > GTK-based desktop environnement than GNOME, and we try to avoid > unnecessary GNOME depends which could slow the system. We need some > GNOME parts because LXDE doesn't provide all necessary components. It's > the reason why we are very careful about dependencies of those > applications. > > We are also very strict with ressources requirement. It's the reason why > we don't include all Ubuntu specific applications. For example, we don't > include Software-Center because it's still a bit heavy for some of our > targets. > > I would like to thanks all people who make this happen, especially Mark, > Colin and Emmet, and all people involved in the development of Lubuntu > and LXDE. > > If you want to talk to the Lubuntu community, you can use our mailing > list (lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net) or IRC : #lubuntu on > Freenode. You can also find information on our wiki [3]. > > Thanks for your attention :) > > Regards, > Julien Lavergne > > > [1] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/ > [2] It's still young images, which for now, are oversized, don't load > the desktop session, and have wrong splash images .. they should be > better in the futur :) > [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Applications > [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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