I am now considering Ubuntulite 0.8 to be a release candidate. Because of this my developmental focus will shift now to producing an install CD and updating the site and the instructions found there. Thanks to everyone who has tried Ubuntulite 0.8 so far and to those who are still waiting to take the plunge. Let me know if you have any problems!

I just finished up some major updates to Ubuntulite 0.8. As I reported earlier in the forum, expect some slight breakage as I gave Ubuntulite a visual refresh and trimmed down the unneeded packages by moving the theme and such into the ubuntulite-default-settings package. Furthermore, that package now contains the fixes to little problems that I use to address in the install script. These changes were tested and preform as expected as far as I can tell. Let me know if you have any problems!

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_nouveau
sudo bash install_ubuntulite_nouveau

To see what you are missing, check out the following screenshot of the default result of using the install script!

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 http://download.tuxfamily.org/ubuntulite/nouveau/install-ubuntulite-nouv... on a cli install of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron).

The Repository is now at the Ubuntulite Team PPA: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntulite/+archive
If you have a Launchpad account, feel free to request to join the team!