Hi, I think it's a good time to do a quick summarize of the state of the development of Lubuntu.
== About Lubuntu in the *buntu family == As you may know, Lubuntu will probably not be officially part of the *buntu family. It doesn't mean we will never be part of it. More important, it will not stop us to release an iso. The question will be : what is the statut of this iso. Stable ? Final ? RC ? Beta ? For now, I'm inclined to make the statut RC, to mark we are not officially in Ubuntu, but target to have a stable release. Target for this release is still like others *buntu, end of April. We may have some delay, depending of the state of Lubuntu at this time. == About the state of Lubuntu == There are several main components which are very young : pcmanfm was rewritten, and lxdm is quite new. I think the current state of pcmanfm is quite good. For lxdm, due to many changes in the boot process of Ubuntu, it was quite unstable during Lucid. I hope main issues are resolved with the version in Beta2. To be general, I'm quite happy with the performance result so far, memory usage is low, CPU usage not too bad. I'm still think it needs many more tests. General use cases should be ok, but intensive and not-classic use cases can be more problematic. That's why reporting bugs is important :-) We also lack some features for everyday uses. As we can't fix them for this release, some works will remain for futur release :-) To summarize, it's a good starting point, a preview of what Lubuntu is capable. Feedbacks over the web are mostly positive, it's a nice indicator, but doesn't mean it's perfect. To finish, it's not a technical point of view, but I think we have the best artwork of all *buntu version ;-) == About the work needed == There are still a lot of works to do, I'll do a summarize when the final release will be out. For now, keep testing and report bugs please :-) Regards, Julien Lavergne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp