Alexander Andjelkovic communicates that the poll for our community wallpaper contest is now up and running at the poll page. Participant wallies are uploaded at our Flickr pool.
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| Original balloons by AJ |
We’re glad to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Debian, the legendary Linux distribution which Lubuntu is based on (thus was Ubuntu), the first one taking care of the really free software and the implication on building a multiarchitecture system.
For celebrating, Debian invited everybody to the DebConf 13, a conference for developers at Le Camp, Vaumarcus (Switzerland). So, Happy Birthday to your awesome OS, Ian Murdock!
We have found a new PPA for our beloved Skippy-XD tool. If you don’t remember what it is, just have a look at the article (now updated) on this blog. If you want to install this compilation from GIT (another “latest” apps repository) you can do it the easy way, having no more depending on DEB downloads and ensure updates. Just open LXTerminal and execute these two command lines:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:landronimirc/skippy-xd-daily
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install skippy-xd
That’s all. Now if you followed the article guide mentioned you should have a cool Exposé-like effect on your desktop.
Via WebUpd8
Alexander Andjelkovic, from the Lubuntu Artwork Team, is proud to announce the new wallpaper contest. As 13.10 is getting closer, it’s time to announce the community wallpaper contest for the new Saucy Salamander release. The contest will decide five additional wallpapers that will be included by default with Lubuntu 13.10.
Submissions are done through this Flickr group:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/lubuntu1310contest/
And you’ll find all the necessary information about the contest there as well. Polling will start ASAP after the submission deadline and will be announced to the public.
Spread the word and good luck to all contestants!
I do not recommend installing any alpha, unless you want to test (and possibly crash) your computer. Some changes you will find on this new release are:
CD images (yes, it still fits on a CD!) are here.
The Lubuntu Artwork Team is proud to show you all the new default artwork, including the wallpaper (and a radical scaly deviation for reptiles :D), the improved GTK2/3 themes, a new sexy app button, and the (always) evolving icons. There’s a lot of work during the release cycle, as upgrades that all users will receive. Have a look:
Also, I’d like to thank the 3rd collaborators we had to make this icon theme. It’s lovely how you’re involved in this project that is (I hope) making Lubuntu a bit more famous. And remember, feedback is appreciated!
Yesterday I read this interesting article on the LXDE blog. For those who don’t know yet, RazorQT and LXDE are joining forces, to make a extremely fast, beautiful and brand new desktop. And here we are, Lubuntu, with a promising RazorQT session available.
Until this arrives (the complete and finished RazorQT environment) you can install it via the official PPA and use this ready-made theme to match your Lubuntu Raring Ringtail desktop. Download it while it’s hot!
The whole Ubuntu family is preparing the land for the arrival of Saucy Salamander. Lubuntu too. In a few days we’ll release the GTK2 & GTK3 themes (and maybe something else). Look at the subtile evolution, where you can see the changes that come mostly from Light Themes:
Minor changes go to paddings, and the base color was softened a bit, while keeping the sharpiness. Also, cleaning the dependencies on RC modules and removed many bitmaps, so it will be a lot faster. And remember that you can always keep your Lubuntu artwork using the Daily PPA. You just need to issue these commands on LXTerminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lubuntu-art/daily
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
This is a correction post. I want to apologize for my last post, due to some uncertain comms NOT proved or confirmed by the Lubuntu coordinator, where I asumed that next release of Lubuntu 13.10 will bring us Mir / XMir as display server, and will keep X for now and on 14.04 too.
So, the Lubuntu Blog wants to be clear about this and regrets lthe last (now erased) post. If you need more information from the mailing lists read this.
Thanks for your patience and sorry again.
Maybe it’s a well known news, but I have to spread it worldwide. As communicated officially, “Munich City Council plan to make Ubuntu discs available as a ‘replacement for Windows XP’ – Microsoft’s 11-year old operating system for which support officially ends in April of next year. The proactive effort is been billed as an attempt to ‘prevent electronic waste’ from discarded computers that, whilst still serviceable with an alternative OS, would fail to meet the requirements of Windows 7 or Windows 8”.
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| München inner city |
These are good news for the open software. And it demonstrates that Lubuntu isn’t at all the “little brother” of Ubuntu. Well, maybe yes talking about setup size or memory requierements, but not less considered. So I want to thank Julien Lavergne, the coordinator of the Lubuntu Team, and their respective collaborators (and users) for a rewarded great job.
LAST HOUR FROM LFFL: “Il Comune di Monaco punta sempre più in Linux, oltre ad utilizzare Linux e software liberi come la suite per l’ufficio LibreOffice ha iniziato a preparasi per il termine del supporto di Windows XP previsto per l’otto aprile 2014 consigliando Lubuntu”.