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Xubuntu 9.04 Released

cody-somerville — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:36:56 +0000

Xubuntu 9.04, codenamed the "Jaunty Jackalope", is the latest and greatest version of Xubuntu, released on April 23, 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.

For Ubuntu see http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-desktop
For Kubuntu see http://kubuntu.org/news/9.04-release

Release Notes

To learn about all the great enhancements and improvements that can be found in Xubuntu 9.04, please see the release notes.

Download

Get it while it's hot. ISOs and torrents are available at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/9.04/release/ (Xubuntu)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.04 (Ubuntu)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/edubuntu/9.04 (Edubuntu add-on)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/9.04 (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.04/ (UbuntuStudio)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/9.04/ (Mythbuntu)

More instructions are available on the download page.

Upgrading from Xubuntu 8.10

To upgrade to Xubuntu 9.04 from Xubuntu 8.10, follow these instructions.

Countdown to Xubuntu 9.04

pasi-lallinaho — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:17:32 +0000

As we are approaching the release of Xubuntu 9.04 (code name "Jaunty Jackalope"), the Xubuntu Team is providing a countdown banner for anyone who wants to get the word spread.

If you manage a website, blog or any other place of your own on the internet, you can help! Just copy the HTML code below to your website to include a countdown graphic.

<a href="http://xubuntu.org/" title="Learn more about Xubuntu..."><img src="http://xubuntu.org/xubuntu-static/jaunty-countdown/" alt="Countdown to Xubuntu (xubuntu.org) 9.04, by Pasi Lallinaho"></a>

Xubuntu 9.04 beta released

vincent — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:23:33 +0000

The Release Candidate of Xubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" has arrived. This is a testing build designed for developers and is not suggested for anyone looking for a stable system. If you would like to see what is new in the beta release, please see the Release Announcement.

Visit the download page to give it a try. Be sure to report your testing results to help the Xubuntu developers - see the ISO testing tracker, Bugs can be reported in Launchpad.

If you are looking for support, please see the #ubuntu+1 or #xubuntu IRC channels on irc.freenode.net.

Xubuntu 8.10 released

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:08:45 +0000

The Xubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the open source community has to offer. This is their latest result: Xubuntu 8.10, which brings a host of excellent improvements built on the rock solid Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment.

For Ubuntu see http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.10-desktop
For Kubuntu see https://wiki.kubuntu.org/IntrepidIbex/Kubuntu

Download

Get it while it's hot. ISOs and torrents are available at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/8.10/ (Xubuntu)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.10 (Ubuntu)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/edubuntu/8.10 (Edubuntu add-on)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/8.10 (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/8.10/ (UbuntuStudio)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/8.10/ (Mythbuntu)

More instructions are available on the download page.

Upgrading from Xubuntu 8.04

To upgrade from Xubuntu 8.04, open the Update Manager from the Applications menu under System. It will tell you: New distribution release '8.10' is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.

New Features since Xubuntu 8.04

Abiword 2.6

Xubuntu brings you the newest Abiword 2.6.4 word processor with tons of bug-fixes and new features, some of which include:

The ability to embed gnumeric charts into your documents
A new collaboration plugin allowing users to collaboratively work on the same document in real-time
Improved support for Microsoft Office and OpenOffice documents
You can now drag and drop images in and out of AbiWord documents
the ability to open files on remote shares, ie. samba, ftp or ssh shares
much more!

Improved Multimedia Experience

Xubuntu 8.10 provides an improved multimedia experience by including the Listen Multimedia Player. With Listen, you can:

Organize your music collection
Browse Shoucast Webradio and Podcats
Read lyrics and have access Wikipedia information about artists or albums at your fingertips
Broadcast by interfacing with your icecast server
Record streaming media
Visualize good times with the built-in graphical visualizer.

Find what you're looking for with Catfish

With Xubuntu 8.10, you'll find an option to "Search for Files" in the Places menu. Clicking this will present you with the widely popular, light-weight search front-end called Catfish. Catfish enables you to quickly and easily search for your documents, music, pictures, videos, and more.

For the technically inclined, Catfish is a frontend for different search engines (daemons).

You can employ find, slocate, locate, doodle, tracker, beagle, strigi and pinot - what ever tickles your fancy!

Easily manage your secrets

Xubuntu 8.10 includes the well known secret keeper Seahorse. Seahorse is a GTK front end for GnuPG - the Gnu Privacy Guard program. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI and Key Management operations can easily be carried out through an intuitive interface.

X.Org 7.4

X.Org 7.4, the latest stable version of X.Org, is available in this version. This release brings much better support for hot-pluggable input devices such as tablets, keyboards, and mice. At the same time this will allow the great majority of users to run without a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. A new failsafe X is introduced, to give better tools for troubleshooting X startup failures.

Two of the older nvidia binary drivers are not available for X.Org 7.4 yet, so users of these drivers will be automatically switched to the corresponding open source drivers.

Linux kernel 2.6.27

Xubuntu 8.10 includes Linux kernel 2.6.27, a significant release with better hardware support and numerous bug-fixes.

Encrypted private directory

The ecryptfs-utils package was recently promoted to Ubuntu main, with support for a secret encrypted folder in your Home Folder (by Michael Halcrow, Dustin Kirkland, and Daniel Baumann).

Network Manager 0.7

Xubuntu 8.10 ships Network Manager 0.7 (by Dan Williams and others), which comes with long-expected features, such as:

* system wide settings (i.e., no need to log in in order to get a connection)
* management of 3G connections (GSM/CDMA)
* management of multiple active devices at once
* management of PPP and PPPOE connections
* management of devices with static IP configurations
* route management for devices

More information can be found on the Network Manager wiki.

DKMS

DKMS (by Dell) is included in Xubuntu 8.10, allowing kernel drivers to be automatically rebuilt when new kernels are released. This makes it possible for kernel package updates to be made available immediately without waiting for rebuilds of driver packages, and without third-party driver packages becoming out of date when installing these kernel updates.

Samba 3.2

A lot of new features have been added in Samba 3.2 amongst them:

clustered file server support
encrypted network transport
ipv6 support
better integration with the latest version of Microsoft Windows™ clients and servers.

PAM authentication framework

Xubuntu 8.10 features a new pam-auth-update tool, which allows simple management of PAM authentication configuration for both desktops and servers (by Steve Langasek). Packages providing PAM modules will be configured automatically, and users can adjust their authentication preferences by running sudo pam-auth-update.

More information can be found in the Ubuntu wiki.

Totem BBC plugin

Xubuntu 8.10 features a new plugin for the Totem movie player that fetches free digital content from the BBC. To enable it, start Totem (Applications -> Multimedia -> Movie Player), enable the plugin (Edit -> Plugins -> BBC content viewer) and select "BBC" from the drop-down labelled "Playlist".

Thanks to the BBC and Collabora for their work developing this feature.

Participate in Xubuntu

If you would like to help shape Xubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/ and http://xubuntu.org/devel

Help Spread the Word About Xubuntu 8.10

A new banner to help spread the word about Xubuntu 8.10. You can add the banner to your website or blog to help others find the wonders of Xubuntu 8.10.

http://xubuntu.org/promote/intrepid/countdown

More Information

You can find out more about Xubuntu on our website and wiki.

Xubuntu 8.10 Release Candidate now available

pasi-lallinaho — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:00:00 +0000

The Release Candidate of Xubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" has arrived. This is a testing build designed for developers and is not suggested for anyone looking for a stable system. If you would like to see what is new in the beta release, please see the Release Notes.

Visit the download page to give it a try. Be sure to report your testing results to help the Xubuntu developers - see the ISO testing tracker, Bugs can be reported in Launchpad.

Before testing, be sure to take note of the Known Issues.

If you are looking for support, please see the #ubuntu+1 or #xubuntu IRC channels on irc.freenode.net.

Countdown to Xubuntu 8.10

pasi-lallinaho — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:00:00 +0000

In preparation for the release of Xubuntu 8.10 (code name "Intrepid Ibex"), the Xubuntu Team would like to get the word out that this release is coming.

If you manage a website, blog or any other place of your own on the internet, you can help! Just copy the HTML code below to your website to include a countdown graphic.

<a href="http://xubuntu.org" title="Learn more about Xubuntu..."><img src="http://xubuntu.org/xubuntu-static/intrepid-countdown/index.php" alt="Countdown to Xubuntu (xubuntu.org) 8.10, by Pasi Lallinaho"></a>