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Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn released

Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn released

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Julien Lavergne has released Lubuntu 14.10. Please download it here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/14.10/release/ Get Lubuntu Release Notes 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 Firefox, Openbox, Pidgin, to name a few. The Lubuntu project wiki contains more information on the project…
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Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Final Beta

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Testing has begun for the Final Beta (Beta 2) of Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn. Head on over to the ISO tracker to download images, view testcases, and report results. If you're new to testing, anyone can join and they don't have to be Linux Jedis or anything. You can find all the information you need to get started here.Please note that we especially need testers for PPC chips and Intel Macs. We have a special section discussing it here. In particular, if you have an Intel Mac, I have a few questions for you that might help us trim down the workload of the testing team.Also, if you have a PPC chip, we're about the only distro actively supporting this architecture. However, we are community supported, so without formal testing,…
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