Xubuntu 9.10 Released

Xubuntu 9.10, codenamed the “Karmic Koala”, is the latest and greatest version of Xubuntu, released on October 29th, 2009. It integrates the latest Xfce-desktop releases with the high-quality and feature-rich core of Ubuntu, resulting in a light-weight and easy-to-use Linux distribution.
Release Notes
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Xubuntu and low performance machines : The perfect match !

When the machine gets old and becomes useless. You get short on options. You can’t sell it because you are so emotionally attached to it and it doesn’t worth that much and you can’t run new applications on it because it can’t afford them. But you can turn it into a beautiful workstation. Able to [...]

Xubuntu: A Simple Approach To Ubuntu

I’ve always liked Kubuntu, really I have.
The Kubuntu desktop is clean and familiar, with lots of bells and whistles. Now that I’m back doing freelance work again, tweaking the very cool resident desktop features, all the time, is beginning to distract me from pursuing fame and fortune as a humble word-smith. Having heard that the [...]

Xfce in Ubuntu/Xubuntu and Debian(/Slackware/fill in the blank)

I’ve written (and before that observed/suffered) about the Xfce flavor of Ubuntu — Xubuntu — not offering much of a speed advantage over plain ol’ GNOME-based Ubuntu and certainly not comparing well to the default Xfce setups of Debian and Slackware.
In last week’s Distrowatch, which I also blogged about, And in the latest Distrowatch, the [...]

The best looking Linux is nearly here – and it’s not Ubuntu

Ubuntu Linux 9.04, otherwise known as Jaunty Jackalope, will be released later this month. Forget Windows 7, this is going to be the hottest operating software release of 2009. Yet, the muddy brown and orange theme doesn’t do it for me which is why this time I’m eyeing off something else from Canonical’s stable.
I wasn’t [...]

Xubuntu 9.0.4 ScreenShots Beta

My 2nd set of ScreenShots, this time it is Xubuntu 9.0.4 Beta based on the New Jaunty Jackalope Beta Release of Ubuntu 9.0.4. I absolutely love Xubuntu since it uses the very light and efficient Xfce 4.6. Granted usually I am praising the fancier Ubuntu based distros, but I do love the simpleness and the [...]

The Xubuntu Difference

There are many different operating systems based on Linux: Debian, SuSE, Gentoo, Red Hat, and Mandriva are examples. Xubuntu is yet another contender in what is already a highly competitive world. So what makes Xubuntu different?
Xubuntu is part of the Ubuntu family of Linux distributions, and is based on Debian, one of the most widely [...]

Greenie Linux 1.2.8 “Battle For Wesnoth”

Stanislav Hoferek has announced the release of Greenie Linux 1.2.8, “Battle For Wesnoth” edition, a live CD featuring the latest version of the popular game. The freely downloadable CD image contains a light-weight operating system based on Xubuntu 7.10 with Linux kernel 2.6.22, Xfce, Wesnoth 1.2.8 with additional campaigns, Poedit (for Wesnoth translators), Gedit with [...]