After three Nights of Xubuntu, the Xubuntu team is able to present you a quick overview of some of the planned features and improvements for Xubuntu 13.10. Enjoy! Software and development On the software side, apt-offline will be included in our default installation after a few cycles of preparing and writing documentation for it. This [...]
Booting the Xubuntu USB image from a CD
Due to the size of the Xubuntu ISOs starting from Raring (13.04), they no longer fit on a standard CD. This guide will help you if your BIOS doesn’t support booting off of USB drives by showing you how to use Plop boot manager. Getting Plop You can download the most recent version here (plpbt-*). [...]
Offline documentation rewritten for 12.10
When you go to “Help” in the main menu in Xubuntu Firefox will launch and bring you to an offline documentation page where users can learn the basics. After a couple of cycles without updates, the Xubuntu team worked hard this cycle to take a fresh look at the documentation. The team spent time reorganizing [...]
Thank you Xubuntu social media admins
In the past year the Xubuntu project has gone from zero to four social media outlets for sharing our project updates, news and discussions. All of these resources are linked at the bottom of every page on Xubuntu.org. The most exceptional thing about this experience is that not only did three of the four outlets [...]
Xubuntu’s default theme gets a refresh for Quantal
While we’ve been using “Greybird” as our default theme for a few releases now, I’ve continuously worked on it. The goal was not only to ensure the quality of the theme in terms of a flawless Xfce4 and Gtk3 performance and extras like supporting Unity or Compiz, but also to visually keep it up-to-date. More [...]