The Lubuntu team is proud to announce the release of the Natty version, with the following features:
* Based on the lightweight LXDE desktop environment.
* Pcmanfm 0.9.8, 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 11.04
Download it while it’s hot!
[may 04, 2011] ISO uploaded at the Lubuntu Blog
Today has been released (with all the fireworks via thousands of blogs) the Ubuntu 11.04 distro, aka Natty Narwhal. Somebody told me about this post that I was right about the incredible resemblance btween Unity and older environments. So, my intention wasn’t insult or criticize the new Canonical’s development. Unlike this, I’d like to see how history repeats (as singed by Shirley Bassey) denoting “old” designs on interfaces and (logically) artwork becomes new things really useful for us. And for you, crazy about look’n’feel, just like me, here goes a few desktops comparative (by order, GNUStep with Camaelon theme, ÉtoiléOS, Gnome 3, ElementaryOS mockup and, of course, Ubuntu Unity):
Ok, here it is. We have no summary for this beta (Julien is working on it) but you can download and start testing it (I recommend working under emulation). You can download the beta at the usual place 🙂
New mirror: The Lubuntu Blog (but please, download the torrent first, if you can).
The first beta of Lubuntu has been released. There’re minor changes in look’n’feel, but a lot of improvements here and there. So, what’s new?
Check it out at downloads area.