U-lite Linux

Feature-wise Ubuntulite 0.8 is almost complete. This is slated to be a landmark release in terms of the history of Ubuntulite. Ubuntulite 0.8 represents my full dedication to continue to bring the ease and feel of Ubuntu to machines that otherwise would have to look for a different distribution. As I am sure those of you who have tried out Ubuntulite 0.8 can attest to, it is certainly a different experience and one that I hope to continue to improve before it is marked RC and later on Final.

I strongly encourage you to try the latest version, 0.8, which I am formally considering pre-rc at this point. It is really close, but I would like some people to try it out to work out any bugs. To install Ubuntulite 0.8pre-rc, start with a cli install of hardy heron. Then use the following commands:

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/ubuntulite/nouveau/install_ubuntulite_nouveau2
sudo bash install_ubuntulite_nouveau

I have made several changed to 0.8 so far in order to reach some form of stability and usability. It is still not quite ready to replace 0.7 just because of the amount of pending changes yet to occur, but if you want to give it a try, you can use the install script found at on a cli install of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron).

The Repository is now at the Ubuntulite Team PPA: https://launchpad.net/~ulite/+archive/ppa

Ubuntulite 0.8 is ready for initial testing but is not ready to replace the older versions yet. This new release now features LXDE. It looks to use about 56MB of ram without using swap and uses 775MB of hard drive space. It is only released for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS at this time. The repository is at http://download.tuxfamily.org/ubuntulite/nouveau and has the components main and lxde. After it undergoes some testing, I will update the install script.

Yesterday I was finally able to get hardy to install properly. Thus I have not had the opportunity to develop 0.8 for hardy. Fortunately tomorrow is my last final so I will be able to focus on getting 0.8 out the door after that. It will probably not have all the nifty stuff at first, but I will add that in updates to it. My major goal is hardy support and lxde before the initial release.