08 Apr

Downlaod Cairo effects for Lubuntu

Now we host the Cairo Compositing Manager, so you can download it whenever you want. And of course you can install it on Lubuntu 12.04 (even its version is older than the Precise Pangolin, it worked fine). I’ve updated the Tools page and posted links for both i386 and amd64 architectures. Enjoy!

01 Apr

Commodore shipped with Lubuntu

A new / old device has been rescued from memory: the Commodore 64k has been resurrected, now with a new revamped motherboard and a lot of improvements. One of the most important changes within this computer is the include of our beloved Lubuntu operating system, lihtly adapted for this hardware (included tape compatibility among other tweaks). The computer name is C64 Datassette, and is a size reduced mobile computer equipped with wi-fi, bluetooth, a 12 hour power battery and a MicroSD card slot.

You can check more specifications and prices here.

28 Mar

Lubuntu countdown!

Thanks to Corbin Davenport from Georgia (USA), I’ve made this modified version of the Ubuntu countdown widget using his code. Only one file! No image, no lags, no delays on loading!

Enter the following code into a webpage to embed it:

<iframe src=”http://dl.dropbox.com/u/133108/lubuntu/widget.html” style=”width:180px; height:150px; border:0px;”>There was an error loading the countdown.</iframe>

27 Mar

Bug corrections

According the QA team, some important bugs affecting Ubuntu core that reflected on Lubuntu images has been corrected. For testing just go to the QA builds and seelct Lubuntu. Here’s the message:

Hi everyone, testing of 12.04 LTS Beta 2 is ongoing, and you already have found major defects that the dev team have started to address. New builds of Precise Beta 2 are now available on the tracker. These images include the following changes:

 If you have any question about testing Precise or issues you may find during testing, join us on #ubuntu-testing on IRC. Thanks for helping to test these images!

20 Mar

Zorin OS 6 Lite

Ayrton Zorin strikes again with the new version of Zorin OS 6 Lite, based on Lubuntu 11.10 core and now comes with LXDE environment. This release includes a new and refined Software Center, as well as other known tools like Zorin Look Changer, Zorin Internet Browser Manager, Zorin OS Lite Extra Software and other programs from earlier versions in Zorin OS. You can download here (please, be sure you use the “lite” section, or the heavier desktop version will downloaded otherwise).

09 Mar

Linux Mint 12 LXDE

According to its website, “this is the first release of Linux Mint using Hybrid ISO images.

Traditionally, tools such as ‘Startup Disk Creator’ or ‘UNetbootin’ were needed to install Linux Mint via USB. With hybrid images, you can simply use the “dd” command or a graphical frontend to make a bootable USB stick with no efforts which acts exactly like a liveDVD”.

Linux Mint 12 LXDE is based on Ubuntu 11.10, with kernel 3 and LXDE 0.5.0 customized as the usual greenish theme. You can download Mint here and see the new features here.
28 Feb

WattOS R5

A new release of this minimal concept of Ubuntu using LXDE environment, the release of WattOS R5, based on 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) with the latest updates and featuring a lot of changes from R4:

  • Midori (with Flash support), Transmission and Filezilla
  • Audacious (streaming support included) and SMPlayer
  • Leafpad and KeepassX
  • Pinta, Cheese, Gnumeric and Abiword
  • improvements like ACPI, powertop, psensor, Jupiter and kernel 3.0.0-16

You can download it here. I highly recommend visiting the forum, where you’ll find a lot of information and advices.

04 Feb

DEFT Linux 7

Another Linux distro updated now with Lubuntu in its core: DEFT Linux 7. This is a great recovery and forensic distro with lots of tools to aid for repairing partitions, damaged clusters, recover lost data, make network tests and configurations, etc. I can’t write the whole list of apps included in this release, not enough space 🙂

 

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