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| Without our Testers, there would not be all the many release ISO's for Lubuntu. | Without our Testers, we would not be able to release ISOs for Lubuntu. |
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| The statement from Canonical, which also applies to our Lubuntu Developers is that as long as they see testers testing, they will continue to develop on all those ISO's we have. | The statement from Canonical, which also applies to our Lubuntu Developers is that as long as they see testers testing, they will continue to develop on all the ISOs we have. |
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| We do get asked why do we have so many variants of what is just one of the flavours of ubuntu that are available and why the [[https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa |lubuntu-qa]] team are always asking for volunteers. To best answer that, this page describes what these ISOs are for, and why they are important. Lubuntu is committed to keeping the ISO's at CD size, as the older machines do not have a DVD drive nor can they boot from a USB drive. | We do get asked why we have so many variants of Ubuntu and why the [[https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa |lubuntu-qa]] team are always asking for volunteers. To best answer that, this page describes what these ISOs are for, and why they are important. Lubuntu is committed to keeping ISOs at CD size, as the older machines do not have a DVD drive nor can they boot from a USB drive. |
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| When 13.04 cycle was started almost every flavour decided to use the new 'blended' ubiquity installer. Lubuntu chose not to. | When the 13.04 cycle began, almost every flavour decided to use the new 'blended' ubiquity installer. Lubuntu chose not to. |
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| This version is fine tuned owing to the MAC system using EFI (A precurser to UEFI). Further information can be found [[https://answers.launchpad.net/mactel-support/+question/162838 | launch pad area]]. | This version is fine tuned owing to the MAC system using EFI (A precurser to UEFI). Further information can be found [[https://answers.launchpad.net/mactel-support/+question/162838 | Launchpad area]]. |
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| This set of ISO's are looked after by the ARM team, but put very simply, the standard release they used to use for these computers exceeded the ISO size that they could work with. See [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/TEGRA/AC100 | AC100]] for more details. | This set of ISOs are looked after by the ARM team, but put very simply, the standard release that was previously used for these computers exceeded the ISO size that they can function with. See [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/TEGRA/AC100 | AC100]] for more details. |
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| [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing | return to lubuntu testing]] | [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing | Return to Lubuntu testing]] |
Important Note
Without our Testers, we would not be able to release ISOs for Lubuntu. The Lubuntu Developers would eventually stop development on these many variations on our flavour and just do the 'standard' ones that they know will get tested and passed. The statement from Canonical, which also applies to our Lubuntu Developers is that as long as they see testers testing, they will continue to develop on all the ISOs we have. Everyone needs to understand that a new release is not 'magic out of the air', it takes a lot of work from the developers to provide these variations and lot of work from the testing teams. Our Lubuntu Developers and Canonical need to see that people are testing to ensure we maintain the largest options of installing Lubuntu.
Why So Many ISOs?
We do get asked why we have so many variants of Ubuntu and why the lubuntu-qa team are always asking for volunteers. To best answer that, this page describes what these ISOs are for, and why they are important. Lubuntu is committed to keeping ISOs at CD size, as the older machines do not have a DVD drive nor can they boot from a USB drive.
All the ISOs are held at iso/qa, following down to, say, Raring Daily you will see that most flavours have only a couple of ISOs to be tested, yet we have a lot.
Alternate and Desktop
When the 13.04 cycle began, almost every flavour decided to use the new 'blended' ubiquity installer. Lubuntu chose not to.
- Why? Because ubiquity requires more RAM
- Will it be supported? Alternate install is required for ubuntu-server. As long as they use it, it will be supported.
AMD64
Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2)
AMD64+Mac
This version is fine tuned owing to the MAC system using EFI (A precurser to UEFI). Further information can be found Launchpad area.
i386
For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure and do NOT have a Mac that runs either PPC, or needs the +Mac option.
PPC
This is for the Macs that have G3, G4 and G5 chips in them. PPC has a different processor set of instructions to those used on Intel / AMD. If you have a PPC machine, please head here.
ARM AC100
This set of ISOs are looked after by the ARM team, but put very simply, the standard release that was previously used for these computers exceeded the ISO size that they can function with. See AC100 for more details.