Draft announcement. Anything to add/remove? I intend to mail this out once the images have been propagated to the mirrors. The Ubuntu/Xubuntu teams are proud to present the second beta release of Xubuntu 6.06 . Since it shares the common base system and the Desktop CD installer with Ubuntu 6.06 beta 2, this release contains the fixes mentioned in the Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu announcement. <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2006-April/000072.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2006-April/000072.html </a> The Xubuntu Desktop CD now logs in automatically. Beta 1 had a bug and prompted for a username and password which were not mentioned anywhere prominently enough. The Xubuntu specific installer bug of freezing when selecting the time zone has also been corrected. == Downloading == <a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/dapper/beta2" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/dapper/beta2 </a> Please download using Bittorrent if possible. The final version of Xubuntu 6.06 is expected to be released in June. == New since Beta 1 ==  * the artwork is more consistent, but it is going to be further polished for the release  * the Xarchiver archive manager is added  * several new panel plugins are added (battery, weather, xkb, verve, etc.)  * the Xfce core components are updated to 4.4beta1 or later snapshots to fix several bugs and    to add new translations == Hardware requirements ==  * to run the live Desktop CD a minimum of 128M of RAM is required  * to install to disk using the Desktop CD installer, a root partition of at least 1.2G is required. == Known issues == * rebooting of the Desktop CD can fail so manual reboot from the switches is required == Feedback and helping == Visit the Contributing section of the following wiki page <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu</a> Jani