A new icon theme is going to land soon: Lubuntu Box. At this moment only a few icons and the design guide are being developed to create the main look line. Of course, the icon theme will (and always) be free, released under GPL license, and it will fit another desktop environments, such as Gnome3 or Unity. Stay tuned!
The SliTaz team has anounced the fourth version of this tiny Linux. With a new graphical installer this rolling release is a new minimal requierements goal, needing 192 Mb memory and voer 48 mb once installed. It’s projected thinking as a powerful but light server without need of installation. Anyway, it has the kernel 2.6.37 (a bit older, considering Lubuntu and OpenSuSE/LXDE ship with 3.0 ones while being light), Openbox 3.4 (again 0.1 points old fashioned), XOrg 1.9.5 and Alsa 1.0.24 (not PulseAudio).
Lars Torben Kremer has presented the new version of another Debian based LXDE distro, Snowlinux 2 “Ice” LXDE. This release features its own artwork (called Snowlinux-Metal), an improved installer, apturl, OpenJDK 6 Java, amon other system improvements. This Release Candidate is presented in 32bit only and you can download it here for testing.
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!
Okay, this is not an Ubuntu based distro, it’s an Arch derivative, but its desktop and behaviour resembles a lot to well known distros like WattOS or NewtOS, with LXDE environment. It’s supposed to have a ram consumption above 59 mb, and the ISO size is 500 mb. No more information on this project, sorry. You can check it out at the Miller Technologies website.
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.
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>
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!
News from the Ubuntu QA team. Phill Whiteside anounced the last beta ISO is available at this repository. You can grab it here for testing. If you want to join the testing group at Launchpad you’ll be welcome. Also you can discuss about this beta release on Facebook. More information here.
