The release notes, with a list of known problems are available on ThanksĪ big thank to everyone involving in the development of this new great release : LXDE developers, Ubuntu developers, ISO testers, artwork and design people, social-network & blog writers, support & IRC keepers … It’s another success of a great team work □ Links * A lot of bug fixes, especially on the panel and the file manager. * Blueman is now used instead of gnome-bluetooth for managing bluetooth devices. * Lightdm is used as the display manager with the default gtk greeter. * New theme is used, and each previous themes are available in the repositories. * A new software-center, optimized to be lightweight, for easy installation and removal of applications from your system. See the complete list of current applications on Improvements since Lubuntu 11.10 ![]() * … and, of course, based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. * Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome. * Openbox, the fast and extensible, default windows-manager of LXDE. * Pcmanfm 0.9.10, a fast and lightweight files manager using gio/gvfs. * Based on the lightweight LXDE desktop environment. However, a lot of work has been done to improve the stability of the system. Unlike Ubuntu, Lubuntu 12.04 is not a LTS, this version will be supported for 18 months. The Lubuntu project wiki contains more information on the project and the applications used available. ![]() With many LXDE components, Lubuntu also uses well-known applications, such as Chromium, Openbox, Pidgin, to name a few. Such users may not know how to use command line tools, and in most cases they just don’t have enough resources for all the bells and whistles of the “full-featured” mainstream distributions. Lubuntu is targeted at “normal” PC and laptop users running on low-spec hardware. ![]() The goal is to provide a very lightweight distribution, with all the advantages of the Ubuntu world (repositories, support, etc.). Lubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu based on the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE), as its default GUI. Julien Lavergne and the team have released lubuntu 12.04.
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