ocelot – Lubuntu

Lubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released

Finally, the long awaited release is here. Notes from Julien Lavergne, the Lubuntu team leader:

ISOs are now build with Ubuntu official build system
alternate ISOs are available
many updates from LXDE (most components had official releases)
build with recommended packages by default
use recommends instead of depends for most of components of lubuntu-desktop meta-package
register correctly LXDE as a desktop environment by xdg tools
switch to xfce4-power-manager for power management
add a microblog client: pidgin-microblog
new theme made by Rafael Laguna

The release notes, with a list of known problems are available here. You can find information on how to report bug on this wiki page. Also check out the Lubuntu website, the documentation, the LXDE website and the official announcement.

You can grab it at the usual Downloads page.

Lubuntu 11.10 beta 2

Sure you already know that our “big brother” Ubuntu released the second beta for the Oneiric Ocelot version. So here goes the “little one” Lubuntu 11.10 beta 2. I just wanted to mention this like an echo of Julien Lavergne’s announcement. And as he said, this is a beta, so remember:

okay, a lot of bugs were fixed
you may find theme (gtk3/lxpanel) improvements
but you could find new interface bugs (feedback appreciated)

but you can also find these (temporary) bugs:

include apt-xapian-index : http://pad.lv/798437
installer require 4.6 Gb of free space : http://pad.lv/819538
ubiquity broken icon switcher : http://pad.lv/830898
update icons on desktop for persitent mode broken : http://pad.lv/837470
firefox locales installed : http://pad.lv/820056
fallback icons on notification area broken : http://pad.lv/819542 and http://pad.lv/820080
not able to install virtualbox drivers after installation from desktop ISO : http://pad.lv/854995
entries with “Lubuntu” are not translated on the boot menu on any ISO: http://pad.lv/855977

You will find it here. Happy testing!