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 <gi...@ubuntu.com> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
