Xubuntu team meeting – Sunday, January 10 at 20:00 UTC
The Xubuntu team will be holding a meeting this Sunday, January 10th, at 20:00 UTC, and all are welcome to attend. The primary focus of this meeting will be on team governance, as Cody Somerville is transitioning out of his role as primary project leader. With that, we’ll be discussing changes to the Xubuntu Strategy [...]
Call for Testing – Xubuntu 9.10 Release Candidate
Ara Pulido sent this message out to the Xubuntu-Users mailing list the other day, and I thought it was worth passing along to the greater Ubuntu community. Testing for the Xubuntu 9.10 release candidate is going on now, so please read the email below and help out if you can. Thanks!
Making Strides Toward Xubuntu 9.04
As I’m sure is the case with other Ubuntu-related development groups, the Xubuntu team has been quite active as of late. We spent some time this weekend testing out configurations of system settings now that we have migrated to Xfce 4.6 for the 9.04 release, and have completed the transition to the new artwork for [...]
Xfce 4.4.3 in Xubuntu Intrepid
While it’s not exactly new news, nor is it as big of an update as having the final release of Xfce 4.6 available, the Xubuntu team has packaged Xfce 4.4.3 for the Ubuntu repositories, and the packages are available for Xubuntu 8.10 users who have backports enabled in their software source. To enable backports, go [...]
Xubuntu meetings, website, and documentation
Things seem to be moving right along in Xubuntu-land. We’ve scheduled regular meetings for the Xubuntu team for the remainder of the Intrepid release cycle, have posted them to our wiki, and have passed along word to the communications team for inclusion of the meeting dates on the Fridge. Having regularly scheduled meetings helped keep [...]
From the fringes of Xubuntu
Cody Somerville has been writing quite a bit lately about what’s going on with Xubuntu, focusing a lot on the strategy document and some technical goals for the next release, but we also have a couple of other things in the works – some items that are kind of on the fringes of the distro, [...]
8.04 reasons why Ubuntu and Kubuntu users should consider using Xubuntu
With the successful Beta release of Xubuntu 8.04, I got to thinking of some of the qualities that have always drawn me back to using Xubuntu. I know that people have spirited feelings about their desktops of choice in the Linux world, but I thought I’d present a few reasons (8.04 reasons, to be exact) [...]
Xubuntu News
The Xubuntu documentation for 8.04 is done, and the doc-centered folks are now working on updating the wiki. There are still quite a few holes in it for now, but we’re working fairly quickly. I like the new menu bar. It makes it easy to get around. Also, I know it’s not much notice, but [...]
Packaging: it might be helpful – even for documentors
Fellow Chicagolander, nixternal, provided the Ubuntu-Chicago local community team with a few links to packaging-related articles that are available from some Debian and Kubuntu websites: 1) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#policy 2) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#devref 3) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide 4) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PackagingGuide 5) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PbuilderHowto 6) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PackagingGuide/Lists/DocumentationResources He sent them out to the mailing list in advance of a packaging session that’s being held this [...]
Room for Improvement
Both this article and this article note how Ubuntu’s documentation needs to be better than it is. The first article describes (in the last point on the second page) that we should do more content scraping from the unofficial documentation (with permission) to improve our docs. We receive lots of requests for mentorship, so there [...]
