Author Archives: RedWolf

31 Dec

卯年!

2010 is over! Expect the best for 2011 and do your own for getting this world a better place! Here comes the Year of the Rabbit… Good luck for everybody!

15 Dec

Artwork section added

Do you have a Lubuntu version installed and preffer another (oldie) artwork? Or have the old release and want to use the newer one? Easy, just pick up the theme package in the new brand artwork section and, voilà, you’ll have any released theme.

You’d be careful about replacing an existing folder with these ones. Do this only if you’re sure about what you’re doing.

11 Dec

Ultimate Lite 2.8

Another derivative from Lubuntu (mmm, we’re inspiration for others, good). Ultimate Lite edition, with a different applications pack, like VLC, Firefox, gEdit (?), Ultamatix (a 3rd party tool for installing codecs and other stuff) and LXDE or Lubuntu original themes replaced by the Blue Deck theme pack. An image is worth a thousand words:

05 Dec

Lubuntu Natty Narwhal alpha 1

Julien said: “the Alpha 1 is a snapshot of the actual development, with minimum tests. Expect others breakages until Alpha 2. However, you can easily test it
under virtualbox or qemu”.

Buggy (as known  black background, the panel appears in the middle of the screen, checking the CD fail, start menu not correctly translated, splash screen may fall-back to Ubuntu text one, istaller doesn’t install correct restricted packages).

Anyway, if you want to test it go to downloads section and grab it while hot.

29 Nov

Unity looks familiar

Mm, am I the only one? Did you get an eye on this “revolutionary interface” for Ubuntu called Unity? Doesn’t it remember a lot on WindowMaker? Ok, it’s not enough talking about “little squares” that launch things, but they could improve the dock to be a bit different than tne old-school MacOS or GNUStep one. Have a look and compare (btw, windowmaker is the one at the right :D):

24 Nov

Tuquito Control Center

Ups, I forgot to mention this. There’s a new control center in the town, from the distro called Tuquito maintained by Mario Colque, from Argentina. You can install this if your system is Ubuntu-based (maverick). Just execute this command line in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paquetes-tuquito/universal && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install tuquito-control-center

And that’s all. It’s compatible with Gnome and LXDE environments, so it fits perfectly in our Lubuntu desktop. It’s made in Python, HTML5 and JQuery (implemented over WebKit), so it’s light, fast and very customizable.

18 Nov

Ubuntu Mono

No, not talking about Mono Runtime right now (you already know it’s a bit controversial). The boys from Canonical Design are attempting to replace the Monospace font (Sans or DejaVu packages) with Ubuntu Mono. A great work (those who are not designers or type evolved doesn’t know how big this effort is). So, go ahead, you’re doing a great job. I can’t wait for replacing my Terminal font!

16 Nov

Natty Narwhall mockup!

Well, it’s  not really a mockup, it’s already an applied theme to my Lubuntu desktop, fully functional and installable. The mockups are a tricky question, because of their complexity and inability of some visual improvements (due to coding limitations), like this:

Now let’s return to the real world. I don’t know if this theme will be the next one for the 11.04 release of Lubuntu, but anyway it could be a nice theme. I must be voted, aproved and accepted for the (growing) community. It’s based on Zuki Blues, by Lassekongo. Have a look and say what you think (screenshot with and without shadows).

14 Nov

ZevenOS 3.0

Another great OS has been released. Ok, it’s not Lubuntu, but it’s based on Maverick, so it could be considered as a “brother” kind to our distro, and maintained by our collaborator Leszek Lesner. Have a look and you’ll find a nice BeOS-ish desktop and a bunch of applications that accomplish every possible daily need. More info about this release here.