lubuntu 12.10 is now available

Julien Lavergne released Lubuntu 12.10. It is now available :

What is Lubuntu ?

Lubuntu is a 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 wikicontains more information on the project and the applications used available.

Features

  • Based on the lightweight LXDE desktop environment.
  • Pcmanfm, a fast and lightweight files manager using gio/gvfs.

  • Openbox, the fast and extensible, default windows-manager of LXDE.

  • Lightdm, using the simple GTK greeter
  • Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome.
  • ... and, of course, based on Ubuntu 12.10.

See the complete list of applications on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Applications

Improvements since Lubuntu 12.04

  • Update of the visual identity of Lubuntu, including :
    • A completely new icon theme.
    • A new wallpaper and improvements to the current theme.
    • A selection of community wallpapers.
    • Improving integration of many applications with the new artwork.
  • A new version of the session manager is available, including more customizations and integration options (not enable by default, but available for testing).
  • A new version of pcmanfm (file manager), including at lot of bug fixes, external thumbnailer support, multiple screen support.
  • Notification-daemon have been replaced for xfce4-notifyd on the default installation, to display notifications.
  • Catfish, a searching utility, have been added to the default installation. 

Releases notes and known issues

The release notes, with a list of known problems are available on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseNotes/Lubuntu

Reporting bugs

You can find information on how to report a bug on this wiki page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/ReportingBugs

Thanks

A big thank to everyone involving in the development of this new great release : LXDE developers, Ubuntu developers, ISO testers, artwork and design people, social-network & blog writers, support & IRC keepers ... It's another success of a great team work Smile :-)

Tags: 
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Ubuntu 12.10

Comments

Submitted by Chdslv on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 11:33
In the Lubuntu Web site, it is always said that Lubuntu is for old hardware, etc, sort of taking away the significance of Lubuntu. I worked a little bit with Lubuntu 12.04 and decided to try to install Gnome-shell, and it worked perfectly. I tried this with Ubuntu too, but Lubuntu was much quicker with Gnome-shell. It was 3.4 then, with all the nice extensions. I did the same with Lubuntu 12.10 and installed Gnome shell 3.6.1 from the Ubuntu repositories, using Synaptic. And what a quick Gnome 3 distro I have! My laptop is now more than 3 years old. It works well with Ubuntu 12.10 too, but Lubuntu+Gnome is quite fast. The other thing is in the "contact" page of Lubuntu is all about how to get help, but nowhere to write a feedback. Ubuntu forums always state that the "devs" won't look there, so I took this opportunity to write here. I thought of uninstalling Lubuntu-desktop, but I won't do that. I am going to have the best of both, Lubuntu and Lubuntu + Gnome shell! I have posted a screenshot in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2074141 Have a good day! And thank you, Lubuntu people!

Submitted by Ervin on Sat, 12/01/2012 - 19:45
How did you do that? I did it once but this time when I re-installed lubuntu 12.10 and tried to install gnome 3.6 I failed. Could you please give me some tips? Gnome 3.6 just won't start, the screen freezes, but at least no damage i can log out.

Submitted by Bill on Sun, 10/28/2012 - 01:33
Thanks for the great OS.

Submitted by Steven on Sun, 10/28/2012 - 17:07
Lubuntu is the best. It is fast, but it looks good! Perfect!

Submitted by phillip on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 04:47
Firstly, I still get that message "You may wish to update this installer" This is a new version of the OS. If that installer isn't updated by now, it never will be. IWhen i was distro hopping I installed 'buntu OS's with no problem. Now, I can't get passed the "install 3rd party software screen". If it isn't finished downloading in 20 minutes, I'm uinstalling Mint Debian Edition, which means I have to get rid of Talking Cow Fortune and a lot of other non sequiturs. Or I may try the older version of Lubuntu 12.04 and then upgrade it.

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 11/17/2012 - 02:29
Thank you for your excellent work. Lubuntu is getting better by every update and I really love the new icon theme.

Submitted by Bill on Sat, 12/08/2012 - 23:47
Thanks for keeping Lubuntu light!

Submitted by Andy Bennett on Fri, 12/14/2012 - 14:15
I'm getting hanging on the second screen, (or sometimes when I've answered all the questions and it starts to install), on a fresh install of Lubuntu 12.10. This on a machine that had been working fine for months with Ubuntu 12.04 and various versions before that. I've now tried, (indeed, am NOW trying), to start the machine using the 'Try before installation option), and, as you ca by the fact I'm typing this in chrome), it starts installing and stops on the 'Preparing to install Lubuntu' screen for about 15 mins, apparently doing nothing. Then it goes through another couple of screens until the 'Welcome to Lubuntu 12.10 screen, then the install falls over and exits, leaving the rest of the machine working fine. I've checked the 'top' command and it seems to be running khung... something and ext4lazyinit or something similar.

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Submitted by Adnan on Fri, 02/22/2013 - 03:13
I have installed Lubuntu 12.10 in my USB Pendrive. And I must say that the designs are so much polished than the previous versions. I have noticed some things which I need to do/fix manually: 1. udisks is not installed by default in Lubuntu 12.10. I have a CDMA USB modem. I have to mount it with udisks in order to use it as a modem. So I cannot connect to internet in Lubuntu 12.10. While the modem does not connect I cannot even install udisks. I feel helpless. 2. I cannot access NTFS Harddisk drives by default!! Surprizing!! (The fix is here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/202560/cant-mount-any-partition-due-to-usb-adding-read-acl-for-uid-1000-to-media-e ) 3. I have a notebook powered by Intel GMA 3600 graphics card. Lubuntu 12.10 and in fact Ubuntu 12.10 does not boot to graphical desktop until a fix is applied: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1069031 The developer team, please fix these issues in the next release. I want to love Lubuntu the way I loved the previous releases.

Submitted by Cluster HPC on Mon, 03/04/2013 - 17:03
I'll check this out. I was looking for this one, I'm glad I've found it here.

Submitted by Aspen System Inc on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 12:26
I'm happy to know that lubuntu improved it's features. Love it!

Submitted by Bankruptcy Atto... on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 16:51
This is a great OS indeed.

Submitted by Austin Texas SE... on Tue, 04/30/2013 - 16:29
I'd love to try this one.

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