The other benefit is that it should be less cutting edge and thus more stable. Previous to having the LXQt packages in the repositories, PPC testers were unable to use the PPA because Launchpad didn’t build for architectures outside of i386 or amd64.

follow the instructions on the wiki to install the LXQt packages.

install a Xenial Xerus 16.04 image (the Alpha 2 just came out!).

(and his iBook G4), we can confirm that it works on PowerPC machines! We reported how to run upcoming Lubuntu desktop LXQt in Xenial Xerus on a Raspberry Pi 2 and now, thanks to tester Herminio Hernandez, Jr. Posted in beta, release 16.04, beta, download, iso, lts, lubuntu, lxde, release, xenial, xerus 1 Comment To those that would like to help, please get in touch (especially those of you that have PowerPC machines!). To everyone that helped make this release possible, thank you. Speaking of bugs, though we’re still working on LXQt for a future release, we do expect to have some bug fixes for LXDE in the final release, so make sure to keep watching for announcements, especially on the Lubuntu Development mailing list.įor Release Notes and downloads, please see the Lubuntu Wiki. Your help would be most appreciated in terms of helping confirm/troubleshoot/triage those bugs, as well as filing any new bugs you find. Make sure to read the release notes to be aware of known bugs and workarounds. The Lubuntu Release Team is happy to announce the first beta milestone of Xenial Xerus (to become 16.04 LTS in April) has now been released! A few bug fixes have come since the last alpha, but one piece of excitement is that this new milestone includes the 4.4 kernel that will be shipping with the final product.

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