[lubuntu-devel] Xenial Alpha 2 available for testing, due Friday

[Walter Lapchynski]

Officially, Herminio, [you are famous][1]. ;)

[1]: http://lubuntu.me/xenial-lxqt-ppc/

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <
herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got lxqt installed. It is a little buggy. Trackpad scrolling on the
> windows does not work. This is something I have noticed in qupzilla since
> 14.04. I have placed a bug report with no result.  It looks beautiful.
> Another issue I keep running into on Ubuntu based distros is video playback
> on PPC. It fans just start kicking  away and Xorg process take almost half
> the CPU. I am going to keep it installed and play with it some more.
>
>
> ​
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you so much for your help Herminio!!!!!!!!!!! Between you and Phill
>> Whiteside, I've marked the PPC images as ready. THey don't have the full
>> gamut of test cases, but this is an alpha. Be mindful that when it comes to
>> maybe beta and certainly final, I won't be quite so forgiving. So test like
>> nuts!
>>
>> As for the lxqt packages, looking at packages.ubuntu.com, it doesn't
>> appear there are ppc builds, but according to Launchpad they're being built
>> for everything. Some examples:
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm-qt
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxqt-panel
>> I know I had no problem installing from the xenial repos on my Raspberry
>> Pi2, for example. More info on this is here:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/LXQt#Stable_Packages
>> My guess is you mean the PPA. That's a little too bleeding edge, methinks
>> and lacks all the archs (as most PPAs do). Testing the packages in the repo
>> is ideal. If you get it working, send a screenshot!!!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <
>> herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am testing on my iBook G4. So far it looking good. I wish the lxqt
>>> packages were available for PPC. I already posted my results on iso tracker.
>>>
>>> Herminio
>>>
>>> On Jan 27, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> As you can see from the [email][1] to the release team from yours truly,
>>> Xenial Xerus 16.04 LTS Alpha 2 is now available for testing, with a goal of
>>> releasing on Friday. Thanks to the wonderful Lubuntu QA team, much of the
>>> testing is already done (thank you!), but PPC is in need of help. I remind
>>> you that we only ship PPC in LTS, so now is the time to act. If you have
>>> any questions, comments, or concerns, let me know!
>>>
>>> [1]:
>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2016-January/003537.html
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA
>> Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact
>> Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader
>> Ubuntu Membership Board & LoCo Council Member
>> Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer
>>
>
>


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Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA
Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact
Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader
Ubuntu Membership Board & LoCo Council Member
Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer
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