Lubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04.2 now available

[Israel]

Hi,
There is an alternative method for installing on Low memory computers
already.
This is OBI
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OBI
https://launchpad.net/one-button-installer

I'd be glad to help, and I'm sure Nio, the developer, would be willing
to help as well.
It is much different method of installing (AFAIK ubiquity makes a chroot
and installs).
OBI has very low memory requirements.  The lowest I have personally
tested is 128MB, and it works fine from the live environment.  I think
OBI uses about 30-40MB MB RAM at its peak (during the actual copying). 
I was running ToriOS which runs in about 60-70MB RAM on average, so I
still had RAM to spare.

Anyhow, I'd also be interested in an alternative to ubiquity for
installing in the debian installer fashion.  A dialog, or FLTK version
would be much smaller.


On 02/20/2015 07:56 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> Oooh look a fancy press release by the Comms Team this time! Thanks silverlion!
>
> = Lubuntu Press-Department: Breaking news =
>
> == Lubuntu 14.04.2 available ==
>
> Lubuntu developers are proud to announce that – with a delay of two
> weeks – version 14.04.2 of the fast and lightweight operating system
> is now available for download via [this link][1].
>
> Release-Manager Walter Lapchynski explains: “We had to delay the
> release for two weeks because of problems with X meta-packages which
> caused us numerous re-spins. But we wanted to do it right in order to
> maintain stability of existing installations and – on the other hand -
> roll up accumulated stable updates into updated images to reduce
> download requirements for new deployments.”
>
> Jens Leineweber, Head of Lubuntu Press-Department, adds in: “And
> because we want our users to experience a stable environment even for
> computers with low resources, we decided to not release a .2 version
> of the alternate installation. That's due to the fact, that we were
> not able to fix all the bugs brought to our attention.”
>
> One major issue the team is fighting with is the debian-installer that
> causes troubles. Once again Walter Lapchynski: “We've been asked a lot
> lately to stop doing alternates in lieu of netboot, but that's not
> really a good solution.” The Lubuntu team will now team up with the
> Ubuntu Release-Team and Servers Team to develop a possible low
> resource version of the ubiquity installer.
>
> CAUTION: Before you install Lubuntu, we advice you to have a read of
> the [Release-Notes][2]!
>
> [1]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu/LTS
> [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes


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