Xubuntu

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Xubuntu Pages

[http://xubuntu.org/news Xubuntu News]

What is and has happened in Xubuntu?

[http://xubuntu.org/press Xubuntu Press]

Read what other people think about Xubuntu!

[http://xubuntu.org/screenshots Xubuntu Screenshots]

Check out screenshots of the Xubuntu desktop.

[http://xubuntu.org/help Xubuntu Help]

Get help and support for your Xubuntu install.

Xubuntu Team Pages

[wiki:Xubuntu/Artwork Xubuntu Artwork]

Logo, Usplash, gdm theme, wallpapers,

[wiki:Xubuntu/Documentation Xubuntu Documentation]

Documentation

[wiki:Xubuntu/Meetings Xubuntu Team Meetings]

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Website: http://www.xubuntu.org

Latest Release: [http://xubuntu.org/get Xubuntu 6.10 with Xfce 4.4 RC1]

Introduction

The aim of the Xubuntu community project is to provide a nice Ubuntu desktop experience (even on older hardware) by using Xfce4 as the desktop environment and GTK+ 2 applications wherever possible.

Xfce4 has been supported in Ubuntu's universe by the [:MOTUXfce] team since Hoary and Breezy. For Dapper we went one step further and made Xubuntu a sibling of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu by having desktop CD images generated for it.

Xubuntu 6.06 LTS, Codename "Dapper Drake", has been released on June 1st 2006, shipping Xfce 4.4 beta1 code. Read the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/xubuntunews/2006-06-01 Release Announcement] and the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XubuntuDapperReleaseNotes Release Notes].

If you are looking for the bleeding edge, you'll want to check out Xubuntu 6.10, Codename "Edgy Eft", which was released on October 26th 2006, shipping Xfce 4.4 RC1 code, Read the [http://xubuntu.org/news/6_10_released Release Announcement] for more information.

Installing

See XubuntuReleases to download CD images. These images serve both as live CD and for installation (from the live CD environment).

The next paragraph is still relevant if you plan to install Breezy or otherwise upgrade an existing install without downloading an ISO. However starting with Dapper this method is deprecated in favour of CD images (install or live+espresso)

You can install it by doing a server install of Ubuntu and then fetching and installing the xubuntu-desktop package. The complete process is described at InstallingXubuntu (english), InstalleerXubuntu (Dutch), InstalandoXubuntu (portuguese), [:InstalandoXubuntu ES] (spanish), InstallerXubuntu (french), InstallationXubuntu (German), and [http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Xubuntu Xubuntu] on the Italian Wiki.

Package selection

As stated above, the criteria for packages to be included is: GTK+ 2 apps, preferably with no GNOME dependencies because of memory footprint issues that consequently affect general performance particularly on older hardware.

[wiki:Xubuntu/ProposedPackages ProposedPackages]

Contributing

Development discussion is taking place on the [http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel mailing list] and #xubuntu on irc.freenode.net. You can create a launchpad account and become active in the [https://launchpad.net/people/xubuntu-team/xubuntu-team Xubuntu Team] or file [https://launchpad.net/people/xubuntu-team/+assignedbugs bugs] you encounter in malone. You are welcome to join our development team if you want to help make Xubuntu a superb desktop solution!

If you are an Xubuntu User, feel free to join the [https://launchpad.net/people/xubuntu-users/ xubuntu-user group] on launchpad.

Past releases: status of Xubuntu 6.06 (Dapper)

XubuntuDapperProgress