Ubuntu Look

Kiwi 8.04 is a 386 Desktop CD derivative based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

It installs packages necessary for playing restricted audio, video and Flash formats by default and supports the Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem.

The list of available languages is English, French, German, Hungarian and Romanian.

The default package selection is altered somewhat to be more familiar to Windows users: Thunderbird is the default mail client and Audacious the

music player.

Other additions to the CD

* Compiz extra settings GUI

* unrar and msttcorefonts.

* a graphical  tool for restoring  GRUB boot menus lost after installing other OSes.

* mc

The Medibuntu repositories are enabled by default to allow installing w32codecs, Skype and Google Earth among others.

The kiwilinux.org archive where our few changes are kept and which is a GPG-signed mirror of our archive in Launchpad is enabled by default.

Kiwilinux FAQ:

http://kiwilinux.org/en/faq.html

Downloads:

torrent: http://kiwilinux.org/cdimage/8.04/kiwi-8.04.torrent

ISO:http://ftp.astral.ro/mirrors/kiwilinux.org/kiwi-8.04/kiwi-8.04.iso

The Launchpad team is proud to announce the release of Launchpad 1.2.4 on 1st May 2008!

New features this month include:

• the ability to build PPA packages for multiple series and copy packages from one PPA to another
• a new design for project code overview pages
• an easier way for casual contributors to post to mailing lists.

Read on for more about what’s new and how it affects you.

Read more at Launchpad News