Xubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet is now available for download

Apr 23, 2015 18:23 GMT  ·  By

Canonical released today the final version of the Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) operating system, as well as its many flavors, including Kubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu MATE 15.04, Ubuntu GNOME 15.04, Ubuntu Kylin 15.04, Ubuntu Studio 15.04, and Lubuntu 15.04.

Xubuntu 15.04 has also been officially released today, April 23, as part of the major announcement for Canonical's Vivid Vervet upgrade, and includes various improvements and updated applications over the previous version, Xubuntu 14.10.

The biggest feature of the newly announced Xubuntu 15.04 distro is the integration of the Xfce 4.12 desktop environment. All the Xfce 4.12 core components and applications are included, especially the new wallpaper which has been set as default.

"The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 15.04," was stated in the official announcement. "Xubuntu now uses Xfce 4.12, which was released on February 28."

Here's what is new in Xubuntu 15.04

Among other highlights of the Xubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) operating system, we can mention new and updated Xubuntu Light and Dark color schemes in the Mousepad and Terminal applications, but the former is now using the Xubuntu Light theme by default.

Additionally, the distribution now offers better appearance for Qt applications, which will work out of the box using Xubuntu's GTK+ theme by default and removes the redundant File Manager (Settings) menu entry.

Xubuntu 15.04 updates many of the pre-installed apps

Among the pre-installed applications, we can mention Mozilla Firefox 37.0 web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird 31.6.0 email and news editor, AbiWord 3.0.1 word processor, Gnumeric 1.12.18 spreadsheet editor, Mousepad 0.4.0 text editor, Blueman 1.99 Bluetooth manager, and Parole 0.8.0 media player.

Among other updated packages, we can mention APT-Offline 1.6, Inxi 2.2.16, Light Locker 1.6, LightDM GTK Greeter 2.0, LightDM GTK Greeter Settings 1.1.0, PulseAudio Volume Control 2.0.3, Ristretto 0.8.0, Thunar 1.6.6, and numerous components of the lightweight Xfce 4.12 desktop environment.

Download Xubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) right now from Softpedia or via the official website of the project. We also recommend checking our in-depth screenshot tour of Xubuntu 15.04 below.

Xubuntu 15.04 (20 Images)

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