Ubuntu Look

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]