Xubuntu 12.04.1 has been released today along with the rest of the Ubuntu flavors. This means everybody on 10.04 are able to upgrade to 12.04.1 at their convenience. Users on 10.04 should get an upgrade notification when booting their systems up the next time.
Users using Xubuntu 12.04 will be upgraded to 12.04.1 automatically along with normal upgrades.
The Xubuntu team is proud to announce the Alpha3 release of Xubuntu 12.10, Quantal Quetzal!
We don’t have any major changes from the Alpha2, but there are a few known issues you should be aware of:
Visit the download page to give it a try. Be sure to report your testing results to help the Xubuntu developers – see the ISO testing tracker. Bugs can be reported in Launchpad. If you are looking for support), please see the #ubuntu+1 IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Before testing this release, make sure to review the release notes.
In the past year the Xubuntu project has gone from zero to four social media outlets for sharing our project updates, news and discussions. All of these resources are linked at the bottom of every page on Xubuntu.org.
The most exceptional thing about this experience is that not only did three of the four outlets already exist as fan-created sites, all three of these admins where delighted to add a member of the Xubuntu leadership team as an admin and have their page made Official by the project. As our intention was to not only reach more users through these resources, but also to involve more people in the project, for each of these resources we’ve asked them to keep on running the groups as they used to.
This is the only social media account that we created. Currently project lead Pasi Lallinaho and I work to keep it updated.
This was a page created by Knez Nenc and diligently maintained with not only Xubuntu.org news, but other news related to news around Xubuntu’s default applications and reviews about Xubuntu.
https://plus.google.com/u/1/112064450121097287690/posts
Laurent M. Vizcaïne has been maintaining this Xubuntu Users group on LinkedIn, which provides a professional forum for Xubuntu users to share questions and experiences.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Xubuntu-Users-4058113
Our most recent addition, Ton van Z syncs the latest Xubuntu news to this Facebook page for followers on Facebook, which also allows users to post notes on the “wall” for discussion with others.
http://www.facebook.com/xubuntuusers
So thank you to all these admins for their excellent work and enthusiasm for cooperation that exemplify the spirit of our community.
Are you running a fan page on another social media outlet that you’d like to see become an official resource for the Xubuntu project in that space? Please get in touch by emailing me, Elizabeth Krumbach, at lyz@ubuntu.com.
The Xubuntu team is proud to announce the Alpha2 release of Xubuntu 12.10, Quantal Quetzal!
In addition, starting from the Quantal cycle, Xubuntu will not support Wubi installations.
Visit the download page to give it a try. Be sure to report your testing results to help the Xubuntu developers – see the ISO testing tracker. Bugs can be reported in Launchpad. If you are looking for support), please see the #ubuntu+1 IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Before testing this release, make sure to review the release notes.
While we’ve been using “Greybird” as our default theme for a few releases now, I’ve continuously worked on it. The goal was not only to ensure the quality of the theme in terms of a flawless Xfce4 and Gtk3 performance and extras like supporting Unity or Compiz, but also to visually keep it up-to-date.
After having had a tendency to soften colors and contrasts, I’ve decided to take a (bold?) step and counter this tendency. This is why the changes for the upcoming Quantal release might seem more drastic then between the releases before. After playing with it for a while, I realized that going this direction half-way wouldn’t work well, so while I’m aware that there might be quite a bit of whining (partly because people may miss the “old Greybird”, partly because change always provokes whining) I really hope that many and most of you will fall in love with the changes the way I did while working on it.
Since the Xfce developer community decided a while ago not to port their (and consequently: our) desktop to Gtk3 in the next release (4.12) and instead to postpone that until performance and memory issues with Gtk3 would be fixed (keeping my fingers crossed), I built the refresh of Greybird around Gtk2. As this will be the main platform for our users’ desktop experience, I’ll try my best to port all the changes to Gtk3 as perfectly as possible, so that hopefully no-one will notice whether an app is Gtk2 or Gtk3 (because I firmly believe that users shouldn’t have to care about things like that).
So, without much further ado and blathering, here goes a representational compilation for our Greybird refresh.
If any of you feel like testing this, feel free to download the tarball @github or git-clone the repository to easily stay up to date.
Constructive feedback – either via the Mailing list or on IRC – is always appreciated!
The author of this post is Simon Steinbeiß, who is the Xubuntu Artwork Lead. In addition to Xubuntu, he works extensively on the Shimmer Project and the Xfce Design SIG.