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

[Herminio Hernandez, Jr.]

Sweet!

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact
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>>> Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer
>>>
>>
>>
>
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> Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact
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> Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer
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