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First ever Exaile bugday

Some of you might remember that the Xubuntu Team is rethinking the default applications for Karmic. Steve, one of our developer community members has put a remarkable amount of work to determine the best but still quite lightweight music player for Karmic. At the moment it looks like Exaile is going to be our choice and Steve is already working on it.

As we want to deliver the best possible media player to you with as little bugs as possible, we are very happy to tell you that the Exaile development team announced their very first bugday (see the original announcement from the lead developers blog). If you know any Python and are willing to lend a hand, join them in fixing as many bugs as you can! More information on this event (and the future ones) can be found on the exaile-bugday team Launchpad page.

You are free to join the bugday at #exaile on Freenode even if you can’t fix any bugs. Have fun!

Kind words

While the Xubuntu team is already planning Karmic and working hard on it, the latest Xubuntu release 9.04 (Jaunty) is getting still some attention.  Read the articles by new Xubuntu users Marc Lewis and Thom Holwerda.

Thank you for using Xubuntu and writing these kind words. We really appreciate them and they make us even more motivated to make the next release, Xubuntu Karmic, the best (X)ubuntu release ever!