Development Blog

We are making very good progress. Bugfixing is working fine and so we hope to release Beta 1 in one or two weeks.
Current progress:

some new apps : FileZilla and Giver
bugfixing menu : removing unnecessary entries, bring back the preferences direct menu accessadd Epiphany Extensions, getlibs for automatic install 32Bit Libs on 64Bit Systems(and 32Bit)new wallpaper (at least it looks better then the old one, perhaps we can get some even better one)lots of updates and security fixes for underlying systemadjust look and feel of KDE applications (see screenshot)

Beta 1 will be hopefully be a first public release.

Changelog for Alpha 9 :

•  new Preferences Application
• new gdm-theme look
• added  openoffice.org-gtk (better look and integration)
• added epiphany-browser (as replace candidate for firefox)
• added liferea (RSS-Reader better integration than Kontacts RSS Reader)
• added addrepo script for simply add an repository via commandline
• updated gimp to version 2.4.4
• updated tomboy to version 0.9.5
• updated kontact (kmail, kaddressbook, korganizer)
• updated transmission
• updated  different other libraries
• latest security fixes

Here is a nice new GDM Background for Zebuntu.
It will be included in Test 9

Have you ideas suggestions for an better background then post it to leszek[at]zebuntu.com

gdm-zebuntu-new.jpg