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LXLE
LXLE is an easy-to-use lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Lubuntu and featuring the LXDE desktop environment. Compared to its parent, LXLE has a number of unique characteristics: it is built from Ubuntu's LTS (long-term support) releases, it covers most users' everyday needs by providing a good selection of default applications, and it adds useful modifications and tweaks to improve performance and functions.
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2009-12-10 |
NEW • Development Release: Unity Linux 2010 Beta 1 |
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Unity Linux is a Mandriva-based minimalist distribution with the Openbox window manager and Smart advanced package management tool. The project's main goal is to provide a core operating system upon which more complete solutions can be built. The first public development release was announced earlier today: "The Unity Linux project is pleased to announce its first beta release, 2010 Beta 1. Mandriva-based Unity Linux uses the MkLiveCD project, which allows developers to create their own distribution on top of a Unity Linux core. Nearly 7,000 packages are available after installation. In an effort to give distribution developers maximum flexibility, the core is kept small and usable, but not too basic. Unity Linux provides developers with the bare minimum - just enough to make use of remastering tools, the Smart package manager, a 2.6.31.6 kernel, and RPM 5." Here is the full release announcement. Download: Unity32-2010-Beta1.iso (261MB, MD5), Unity64-2010-Beta1.iso (298MB, MD5).
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The community-oriented Unity Linux is a minimalist distribution and live CD which was originally based on Mandriva Linux, but is now maintained as an independent distribution. The project's main goal is to create a base operating system from which more complete, user-oriented distribution can easily be built - either by other distribution projects or by the users themselves. Unity Linux uses Openbox as the default window manager. Its package management is handled via YUM and RPM 5 which can download and install additional software packages from the project's online repository.
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2012-03-03 |
Development Release: Unity Linux 2012 Alpha 1 |
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Jon Dill has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Unity Linux 2012, a minimalist Mandriva-based distribution that can serve as a base for building custom products: "The developers at the Unity Linux project are pleased to announce a new alpha snapshot of the upcoming 2012 release in both 32-bit and 64-bit variants. This release is the first in a while due to the fact that we have migrated all our repositories over to use the Mandriva ones. Much work has gone on to make sure that Unity and Smart work with upstream repositories at Mandriva. This ISO image is based on Mandriva 'Cooker' and we use our own repositories for packages not available upstream. As we noted in our previous alpha release in 2011, we are aiming to provide JEOS (Just Enough Operating System) to give users a core to build upon." Read the rest of the release announcement for a brief changelog and a list of main components. Download: unitycli-i586-20120222.iso (96.4MB, MD5), unitycli-x86_64-20120222.iso (99.2MB, MD5).
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2011-09-07 |
Development Release: Unity Linux 2011 Alpha 2 |
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Derrick Devine has announced the availability of the second alpha release of Unity Linux 2011, a minimalist, but highly customisable distribution based on Mandriva Linux: "The developers at the Unity Linux project are pleased to announce a brand new alpha snapshot of the upcoming 2011 release. The 2011 alpha 2 release provides a few big updates to core packages, but the emphasis on the 2011 release continues to be maintaining stability during structural changes that will accommodate a move toward Mandriva repositories. This release shows our new aim which is to provide JEOS (Just Enough Operating System) to give users a core to build upon. The Unity developers are aiming for an Arch-Linux-Like approach to things with future releases." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details, changelog and known issues. Download: unity-i586-alpha2.iso (118MB, MD5), unity-x86_64-alpha2.iso (124MB, MD5).
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2011-01-21 |
Development Release: Unity Linux 2011 Alpha |
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Jon Dill has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Unity Linux 2011, a minimalist operating system suitable for building custom solutions or special distributions: "The developers at the Unity Linux project are pleased to announce a brand new alpha snapshot of the upcoming 2011 release. The 2011 alpha release provides a few big updates to core packages, but the emphasis on the 2011 release will be the beginning of structural changes to the core. These changes are being done to make creating a distribution based on Unity Linux easier and less complicated. The 2011 alpha brings new changes to Unity Linux basic ISO image: updated Linux kernel 2.6.35.8 and Perl 5.12.2; mklivecd updates. The core structural changes slated for the 2011 release: All dynamic DKMS kernel modules to be converted to static kernel packages...." Here is the full release announcement. Download: unity-i586-20110119.iso (296MB, MD5), unity-x86_64-20110119.iso (318MB, MD5).
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2010-12-07 |
Distribution Release: Unity Linux 2010.2 |
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Matthew Dawkins has announced the release of Unity Linux 2010.2, a minimalist operating system designed to serve as a base for building custom distributions: "The developers at the Unity Linux project are proud to announce a brand new snapshot of the 2010 release. The 2010.2 release provides many updates to core packages, much more stability, and refinements to the core tools of the project, like mklivecd and unity-installer. Since our 2010.1 release the changes include: updated toolchain, OpenSSL, X.Org, Python, Mono, Smart, Drak tools, Linux kernel 2.6.35.7; addition of more than 2,000 packages; Xfce 4.6.2, KDE 4.5.1, GNOME 2.32.0, Openbox 3.4.11.2, E17 0.16.999.52995 and EFL beta libraries, as well as several proprietary video drivers for NVIDIA and ATI." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download: Unity-i586-2010.2.iso (343MB, MD5), Unity-x86_64-2010.2.iso (369MB, MD5).
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2010-11-19 |
Distribution Release: Unity Linux 2010_02 "Unite17" |
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The growing trend of developing Linux distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 continues with the release of Unity Linux 2010_02 "Unite17": "We have another Unite17! A few sentences of the changes: brand-new exterior and interior, because I took the liberty of using the testing repositories. E17 at least not alpha, but beta - of course, there are still some annoying bugs, such as that if you want to start an application, which would need administrator rights, some incomprehensible error message appears; transparency works with minimum of memory while in use; the minimum system requirements at least PIII 900 MHz processor and at least 384 MB of RAM, OpenGL compatible graphics card; the CD image size is 2.5 GB, so it's not small; new Linux kernel (2.6.35.7), updated applications, and two new browser add-ons - Chrome TV plugin, which allows all the available Internet TV broadcast monitored, and an open-source YouTube video downloading add-on." Here is the full release announcement with a screenshot. Download: unite17_2010_02.iso (2,536MB, MD5).
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2010-07-11 |
Distribution Release: Unity Linux 2010 |
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Matthew Dawkins has announced the release of Unity Linux 2010, Mandriva-based distribution designed for building custom solutions from a minimalist base: "The Unity Linux project is pleased to announce the final 2010 release. Changelog: the usage of Plymouth for the boot graphics; new Linux kernel version 2.6.33.5; new Unity theme; added smart-applet for automatic package updates; updates of all major desktop environments as well as supporting libraries. The repositories now contain many fully-fledged, up-to-date desktop environments which can be installed with the use of the 'task' meta-packages. Recent additions include: KDE 4.4.3, GNOME 2.30.0, Openbox 3.4.11.2, Xfce 4.6.2, Enlightenment 0.16.999.49898." Read the rest of the release announcement to learn more about the project's first stable release and to view a few screenshots. Download: Unity32-2010.1.iso (277MB, MD5), Unity64-2010.1.iso (276MB, MD5).
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2010-03-10 |
Development Release: Unity Linux 2010 RC1 |
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Matthew Dawkins has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Unity Linux 2010, a minimalist distribution and live CD based on Mandriva Linux: "The Unity Linux project is pleased to announce its first candidate for release, 2010 RC1. We have taken the last nine weeks to provide many needed fixes and continual updates to the core offering of our software. Changelog: updated X.Org to 1.7.5; new kernel version 2.6.31.12; filetriggers and other minor bugs were fixed for rpm5; Smart 1.3 and the addition of smart-utils for mirror automation. The repositories now contain many up-to-date desktop environments which can be installed with the use of the 'task' meta-packages. Recent additions include KDE 4.4.1, GNOME 2.28.1, Openbox 3.4.11, Xfce 4.6.1, Enlightenment 0.16.999.063." Read the rest of the release announcement for additional notes. Download: Unity32-2010-RC1.iso (238MB, MD5), Unity64-2010-RC1.iso (238MB, MD5).
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2010-01-04 |
Development Release: Unity Linux 2010 Beta 2 |
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Matthew Dawkins has announced the availability of the second beta release of Unity Linux 2010, a minimalist, base operating system with Openbox and Smart package management, based on Mandriva Linux: "The Unity Linux project is pleased to announce its second beta release, 2010 Beta 2. We have taken the last four weeks to provide many needed fixes and continual updates to the core offering of our software. Changelog: updated X.Org Server to 1.7.3; fixed Aufs for GVFS support; new kernel version 2.6.31.9; additional firmware; NDISwrapper module is fixed and working with kernels 2.6.30 and higher; overall there are about 200 updates since beta 1. Known issues: RPM 5 filetriggers feature is not fixed yet; X.Org Server 1.7.3 is not yet supported by the ATI proprietary driver...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download: Unity32-2010-Beta2.iso (235MB, MD5), Unity64-2010-Beta2.iso (271MB, MD5).
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