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lubuntu on Track to Official Status as Ubuntu Flavour

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There has been news on some sites about "lubuntu" gaining official status. And YES we are on the way to official status and had some thumbs up from Mark and others at UDS in Budapest, but one thing is for sure: There is still a lot of work ahead. We can call lubuntu official, when the ISOs are build on the Ubuntu infrastructure and when lubuntu 11.10 will be out. This here is a quick sum up of the Ubuntu Developer Summit and the impacts on Lubuntu development based on notes of Julien Lavergne: Lubuntu and official status As said during the UDS session, we are on track for official status. Infrastructure issues are going to be solved and Lubuntu will be added to the list of flavors. We have…
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Default applications on Lubuntu 10.04 – Summarize of the UDS Session

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a quick summarize of the session we had in UDS about the workflow for choosing default applications, and with a current proposal. Blueprint : https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/lubuntu-lucid-default-applications Complete spec : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/LubuntuLucidApplications Current consensus was to stay with the list of applications we have for Karmic (but please read until the end of this mail :)) The general proposal for the roadmap is the following : - Determine areas not currently covered in Karmic seed that still need to be addressed - Discuss applications that could be replaced - Organize a IRC meeting to stop the applications list For problematic applications, we'll need discussions preferably with advantages/disadvantages, benchmarks (memory and CPU usage , dependencies, installed space ...). The goal is not to replace all the seed, but focus on some keys applications that…
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lubuntu Lucid preparations

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The real first release of lubuntu should be for Lucid (10.04), in six months. To prepare it, I began to write 3 specifications [1] about the future Lubuntu, to hold discussion about some aspects of it. I hope to be at the Ubuntu UDS [2] to work on them. Feel free to contribute to them (with constructive arguments, not troll please :)) Nothing is decided, and help in various aspects to make Lubuntu 10.04 rocking, will be very appreciate :) [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/lubuntu-lucid-artwork https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/lubuntu-lucid-default-applications https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/lubuntu-lucid-packaging-policy [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS
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