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lubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat released

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Julien Lavergne and the team have released lubuntu 10.10. It is now available here: Torrent: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-10.10.iso.torrent Direct download: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-10.10.iso Md5: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/md5sum.txt What is Lubuntu Lubuntu is an Ubuntu derivated using the LXDE desktop. It's designed to be a lightweight and easy-to-use desktop environment. Lubuntu is actually not part of the Ubuntu family, and not build with the current Ubuntu infrastructure. This release is considered as a « stable beta », a result that could be a final and stable release if we was included in the Ubuntu family. Features Based on the lightweight LXDE desktop environment. Pcmanfm 0.9.7, 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 10.10 See the complete list…
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Full Circle Podcast about lubuntu

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The full circle magazine contacted for an interview to learn more about the lubuntu project. They had a chat with me. Listen to it in the podcast:Full Circle Podcast #8: More Opinion Than You Can Handle In this episode, Dave and Ed argue about evolution… of  Ubuntu One and Lubuntu.Opinion: Why we need LubuntuInterview: Part I of the Lubuntu ProjectThanks to Dave and Ed for making people aware about lubuntu!Creative Commons license of the podcast: (cc) BY-SA 3.0 Unported
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Lubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx released

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Julien Lavergne released the final "stable beta" version of lubuntu 10.04. Torrent: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-10.10.iso.torrent Direct download: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-10.10.iso MD5Sum: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/md5sum.txt What is Lubuntu Lubuntu is a Ubuntu variant using the LXDE desktop. It's designed to be a lightweight and easy-to-use desktop environment. Lubuntu is currently not part of the Ubuntu family, and not build with the current Ubuntu infrastructure. This release is considered as a « stable beta », a result that could be a final and stable release if it was included in the Ubuntu family. Please note also that Lubuntu 10.04 is not a LTS version. For the future we aim to include all packages of lubuntu in the Ubuntu repository. Features - Based on the lightweight LXDE desktop environment. - Pcmanfm 0.9.5, the rewrite of pcmanfm using gio/gvfs. -…
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lubuntu – get involved

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Julien Lavergne posted ways to get involved into lubuntu on the mailing list of the project and I am reposting his suggestions here. This is a quick summarize for people wanted to help on Lubuntu. In general, all tasks will be documented on the Subteams pages: Packages and Code: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/CodingAndPackagingSubTeam Artwork : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/ArtworkSubTeam Doc : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/DocumentationSubTeam Translations : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/TranslationSubTeam Testing : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/TestingSubTeam == Participate to the LXDE project == This is the most efficient way to contribute to Lubuntu. If you want a functionality, translate a package etc … you should directly work with LXDE. LXDE site: http://lxde.orgLXDE mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=lxde-list SVN repository: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxde/develop == Create an artwork for Lubuntu == We don’t have an original artwork, and it’s an important goal for Lucid. Some works began on the LXDE…
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