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Lubuntu News Round-Up

Ozone3 Theme Ready for Testing Lubuntu are switching back to the elementary-esque ‘Ozone’ theme for their 12.04 release. The switchback means there’s lot of work to be down on the theme to get it ready in time, including switching it over to GTK3. But progress is coming along nicely – so much so that it’s now available [...]

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Poll Result: 15,900 votes Cast; Unity Named Most Popular Desktop

Unity is the most used Desktop Environment amongst Ubuntu 11.10 users according to our most recent poll.

Just shy of 16,000 votes were cast (one vote per person) in the poll which asked readers “Which Desktop Environment Are You Using in Ubuntu 11.10?”

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Which Desktop Environment Do You Use in Ubuntu 11.10? [Poll]

Four different desktop environments

Roll up, roll up: it’s poll time! This week’s poll question comes by courtesy of reader ‘Andy’, who’s interested to know how many Ubuntu 11.10 users are using Unity and how many are using GNOME Shell. Now, in the interest of fairness I’ll throw LXDE, XFCE, KDE and Pantheon into the options ring too. But do note that this [...]

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Google Summer of Code: Proposed Ideas for Ubuntu, GNOME, LXDE,

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With Google’s annual Summer of Code poking its ahead around the thinning pages of the calendar armies of Open-Source organizations are once again interning themselves at idea meeting round-tables and entering into proposal speculation to decide which projects they will spend the summer getting paid to work on. Ubuntu Once again our favourite operating system [...]

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Lubuntu 10.04 Alpha 1 – Visual Overview

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April 29th will see the release of new addition to the Ubuntu family. Joining Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu will be a new lightweight version – ‘Lubuntu‘. (And no, the ‘L’ doesn’t stand for lightweight! More on that in a second) What is Lubuntu? Lubuntu combines the ‘base’ of Ubuntu with the “Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment”, [...]

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