The lead developer of Lubuntu, an Ubuntu variant featuring LXDE, Julien Lavergne just announced the availability of Lubuntu 10.04 Beta 2. Here is his release note on the mailing list:
Hi,
The Lubuntu Lucid Beta 2 is now available. Don’t forget that it’s build
with Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) which is still in Beta state of development,
so same warnings :“Pre-releases of Lucid are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable
system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even
frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers
and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.”We passed Feature Freeze, that mean most of the features should now be
available. It’s now time for testing and fixing bugs.== New stuff since Beta 1 ==
* Auto-login at install time
* Support encrypted home directory
* Up-to-date lxdm, libfm and pcmanfm2== Specific Lubuntu changes ==
Lubuntu still contains modifications not available in the official
repository, you can see them in the Lubuntu PPA [1] :
- New pcmanfm2 and libfm (LP: #523433)
- lubuntu-default-settings with pcmanfm2 support
- Fix for blurry shutdown-icon from elementary-icons (LP: #527345)
- Autologin support in ubiquity (LP: #546445)
- New lxdm== Testing needed ==
I’ll appreciate some feedbacks about the followings recent additions :
- pcmanfm2, the new filemanager, is still in beta state. Please report
bugs on
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/TestingSubTeam/pcmanfm2Testing
- The new lxdm may fixed some issue regarding the keyring and PAM
support, but it needs more tests.== Known bugs ==
* If you test on a USB, the first screen will freeze for a moment when
you click on “Try Lubuntu …”. Just wait, it will continue as normal.
* See also https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/TestingSubTeam== Reporting bugs ==
Bug reported during testing :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/TestingSubTeamIf you want to create a bootable usb system, please use the usb creator
directly on Ubuntu.Please follow the testing process described on this page :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams/TestingSubTeam . You can also
report problems and bugs relative to the tests on this page.Torrent: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-lucid-beta2.iso.torrent
Download: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-lucid-beta2.iso
MD5: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/md5sum.txtRegards,
Julien Lavergne[1] : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop/+archive/ppa
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Hello Julien,
You link “http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-lucid-beta2.iso” actually points to “http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-lucid-beta2.isoMd5″ which returns a 404. I think it is just a case of a misplaced , as the underscore for the link continues under the characters “Md5″.
If I copy/paste the the link text, I get to the .iso just fine. Torrent is fine.
Cheers
Posted 12 Apr 2010 at 12:28 am ¶David
Err, sorry, Julien & PCMan. I just realized that this is PCMan’s post, not Julien’s.
Posted 12 Apr 2010 at 12:32 am ¶I’v just had the second disappointment with Lubunto. I tried the Beta 1 and noticed the network manager was not working for the mobile 3g broadband dongles. Well, I thought by beta2 it would be fixed. One hour ago, I found it’s announcement at Distrowatch. I hurry up to download and install it. Then I could not believe when I noticed the said problem was not fixed yet. Otherwise, you made a nice distro and a good work
Posted 12 Apr 2010 at 5:03 am ¶“bonjour” (from france…),
Posted 12 Apr 2010 at 6:40 am ¶could it be a way to boot lubuntu from 1 old amd k6-2 (kernel problem) ?
best regards,
PL
Link to download folder
Posted 12 Apr 2010 at 1:04 pm ¶http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/
regarding kernel issue on old pc you can have a look at this:
Posted 12 Apr 2010 at 5:40 pm ¶https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/429898
…otherwise you could try lilo instead of grub2 (use chroot from a live cd like in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4640544, then sudo apt-get install lilo).
…or boot from live cd and choose boot from 1st hard drive.
I really like lubuntu. It’s just what I need from on Operating System.
But I’m not using lubuntu on a dated hardware. I’m using it on recent hardware and I should tell you it just flies. It loads superfast.
I had to replace
gnome office => openoffice
pdf viewer => acrobat
sylpheed => thunderbird
install firefox along side chrome for my needs.
It is great that lubuntu comes with gnome office and light weight software, but I think it will be a great idea if there is an edition of lubuntu for latest hardware as well with software such as openoffice, firefox, thunderbird, etc.,
Congratulations t othe developers. This distro ROCKS!!!
Posted 12 Apr 2010 at 5:55 pm ¶I tested and install on Compaq Mini 110c and little disapointed. wlan work, but after some restarting dissapeared and I cant get wlan work, also 1/3 starting is freezing. How to get wlan working on my machine? please help. poshkaitis@f-1.lt
Posted 14 Apr 2010 at 6:30 am ¶also I cant get working lubuntu netbook desktop. I set this desktop, but after shutdown all goes to default
Posted 14 Apr 2010 at 6:35 am ¶i install ubuntu netbook remix 10.04 beta2 and choose second wireless driver and wlan works, in lubuntu is only one wireless driver
Posted 14 Apr 2010 at 3:42 pm ¶@Mathi
Well if you’re looking for lubuntu version for big, fat, new hardware with above mentioned apps follow this link
http://www.ubuntu.com/
Maybe you have heard bout it, but I honestly doubt it.
Posted 15 Apr 2010 at 3:14 pm ¶Hello.
Posted 16 Apr 2010 at 5:59 pm ¶Well… I’m about to try Lubuntu on my old Dell Inpiron 5100 Laptop (Pentium IV, 256 MB RAM). I have used Xubuntu before but it has some problems with the graphics card, strange, since neither Ubuntu or Debian or Mandriva had given me this problem, but all they was very slow.
I keep in touch…
I’m sure you thought about it carefully, but Chromium is really fattier than Firefox (or Arora, or Midori or Opera). The browser is currently faster, but its memory usage is just huge!
I am not sure it is the right choice for a light weight distribution meant to run on old hardware with limited memory ressources…
Posted 18 Apr 2010 at 5:49 am ¶@Ahmad
), with few tabs opened memory consuption is decent ( still bigger then opera’s ) but more tabs it consumes more memory than opera 
Posted 18 Apr 2010 at 3:49 pm ¶Midori isn’t that light either. Ok: it has blisteringly fast startup time ( dillo notwithstanding
I am sorry to say that I failed to read this news ontime. I am going to download it now.
Posted 18 Apr 2010 at 6:44 pm ¶dear developers, please, insert in distro better wireless driver
Posted 21 Apr 2010 at 12:43 pm ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 4
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