Posted on 04/21/2016 1:23:06 PM PDT by martin_fierro
The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 16.04. Xubuntu 16.04 is an LTS (Long-Term Support) release and will be supported for 3 years.
The final release images are available as Torrents and direct downloads from http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/
As the main server will be very busy in the first few days after release, we recommend using the Torrents wherever possible.
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I thought at first Obama released some muzzie from Guantanamo.
I’m waiting on Lubuntu to follow suite. But not going to upgrade from 14.04 right away, let others beta test it for a few months.
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I ran Xubuntu for a number of years. Found at a point that I was unable to upgrade.
Looked around and decided I would install Debian (base for Ubuntu) with XFCE. Am very pleased with it.
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Ever tried Lubuntu? Fast, nice-looking and also works great installed on a USB stick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lru-T41sEvs
Lol!
No, I haven’t.
My first Linux install was in 1994. It was a version of Slackware running under UMSDOS.
Over the years I ran several version of Mandrake and Redhat; Xubuntu and now Debian. I’ve been running XFCE GUI since Redhat 8 came out. It was not a part of the basic install package then, I set it up with Gnome and then added XFCE. It was amazing how light it was. I have used a number of light GUI packages before.
Ooops. Desktop image link should be:
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Can’t even pronounce it...sorry I don’t know what this is about
UMSDOS = “under” MSDOS
Linux operating under a DOS install.
I built my first PC our of surplus components in 1982. TRS80 junk pasted together with max memory and 2 5-1/4” floppies. Homebrew power supply and floppy drive case. Monochrome monitor. Tape drive for mass storage. Had 64K (not meg) RAM. That was all an 8 bit processor would address without bank switching. It would not access the web and had no built in landline modem.
I was running NewDOS80.
I’ve made the rounds. TRSDOS, NewDOS, Windows (most of them), many Linux distributions, and AS400 IBM.
Spent 35+ years in the wholesale distribution business.
I ran a catalog department at a distribution company for 4-1/2 years. Constantly pulling files and images off a server and queried data from the AS400 in flat files. Had a Redhat Linux box and a Windows XP box on my desk. It took all of that and a lot more to get the job done. We had 47,000 item inventory in that warehouse and similar at sister company in CA. Lived in spreadsheet and Quark. Used scripted database publishing for 3,000 page catalog with many supplement insert pages. That plus the web transition.
I got good at batch converting image files with ImageMagick (command line image processing software). Very efficient.
We created all the images. I sized them and created thumbnails for the web.
Plus we had monthly promotions and season books (some several thousand pages). It was a wild world.
I’ve been a Ham Op since 1976, hold an Extra and have a commercial radio license too.
Love electronics.
I’ve heard of UMSDOS, but never used it.
TRS was a good little PC to build on - I had one of it’s offsprings, the TRS CoCo3. No disks, had to store everything on cassette, had a big 128K of RAM. The cartridges you could get for it were good though - speech, modem (300 baud, I think, I subscribed to Compuserve with it) and games & so on.
It was great fun writing BASIC progs on those old PCs.
Sounds like you’ve been in up to your armpits in Linux and general PC stuff. I don’t know if it’s the same Imagemagick prog, but it’s part of the standard Ubuntu-based distros. You’re one up on me on how to use it, though! For anything other than some simple image adjustments, cropping and resizing, I have to use Windows. I should spend a week learning how to use GIMP to it’s full potential.
My older bro was/is the ham/CB/”pirate” radio and electronics whiz kid (and TV-anything electric repairman) in the family. But we both reminisce of the days when you could actually get electronic parts, odds and ends & related gizmos at Radio Shack. They’re pretty much kids selling smartphones/contracts these days who wouldn’t have the foggiest notion of what even a project box is.
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