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- Chromium is the default browser in Lubuntu 10.04.
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- The Lubuntu 10.04 login screen.
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- The Lubuntu 10.04 desktop.
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- The Lubuntu 10/04 bootsplash screen.
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- Manage your software with Synaptic.
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- A bunch of hippies at a Zeppelin concert.
(5 votes, average: 4.60 out of 5)
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I am using Peppermint OS One right now. It seems to me that Peppermint is quite similar to Lubuntu, but Peppermint has both Ubuntu and Mint repos serving it with package updates. If you are a Mint fan, you may appreciate the simple, but artistic opening page, which is still quite lightweight.
I may grab the image, now that I have a USB drive again, but I don’t see anything that Lubuntu is likely to offer that differs significantly from Peppermint, and I kind of like the responsiveness and everything else about Peppermint. I’d likely rate both of them well for systems needing light (or fast) setups.
I would have to agree. Lubuntu seems like a nice effort, but Peppermint is still the lightweight king.
You got linked already by LXer, so that’s pretty good Jim!
I tried the live CD on a Dell Latitude with an ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) graphics card. The best resolution is 800×600. I heard of other problems with old computers and non-Intel graphics cards. If there is a solution, Hooray, Lubuntu; Otherwise, BOO! Screen resolution was fine with Mandriva 2009 Live CD so I know it can be done.
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Q1. If not officially supported by Ubuntu, How come it is allowed to use the owrd “Ubuntu” in its distro name?
Q2. Thanks to the previous posters, I have learnt that there is Peppermint which is also base on Ububtu + LXDE. Some weeks ago, I have also heard of PuppyLinux, how do these 3 Ubuntu + LXDE compare?
Q3. What happen if I run a Gnome application? And for the sake of education, let’s imagine that this application is Gnome only and doesn’t have an LXDE equivalent.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Before Lubuntu came into being, it was discussed by Canonical, including Mark Shuttlesworth, and it was approved. Not sure where or how far it is in the process of becoming an officially sponsored or sanctioned distribution. At this point, the name is recognized, but the corporate support is not there.
Peppermint OS One is based on Linux Mint 9, which also has its roots above in Ubuntu, and in particular, the 10.04 release, so Peppermint and Lubuntu are VERY CLOSE in capabilities since they use the same desktop environment. Personally, I like Peppermint; more tools, slightly more refined, and just as fast.
You can run whatever you want with either Peppermint or Lubuntu. Both have the Lucid Lynx repos of Ubuntu behind them.
Puppy is much more minimal than these distributions, but the recent Puppy derivative from Barry Kauler will allow the use of packages from other systems, whereas Puppy uses either its own, or at a stretch, Slackware based packages. Future Puppy derivatives from Barry are likely to be able to use Ubuntu packages.
Peppermint based on Mint, Mint based on Ubuntu and Ubuntu based on Debian.
I am getting tired. Any distro out there not based on another distro?
@ Innocent Bystander:
Q1: Lubuntu has been pushing for official Canonical sponsorship and it’s very possible that they’ll have it for the 10.10 release.
Q3: Gnome apps run just fine as LXDE also uses GTK and the file manager utilizes gvfs. Some Gnome apps will bring a bunch of dependencies, but they’ll run fine.
@ Brian Masinick:
Peppermint OS is actually a fork of Lubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3. It does use some Mint tools and some of the lower level configuration files from Linux Mint. Without Lubuntu, it would be very difficult for Peppermint to exist as it presently does. See the Launchpad site for more details: https://launchpad.net/~kendalltweaver/+archive/peppermint
@ Earl Violet:
The Buntu’s and ATI parted ways after version 8.10. They supply an open source driver which is not fully baked yet. The bad news is, getting your wifi to work with 8.10 and prior is a major chore.
Buntu does work well with Intel and Nvidia GPU’s.
Hello all
I swapped from Ubuntu 10.04 to Lubuntu a couple of weeks back following an update borking my laptop sound. I have been generally been very happy with Lubuntu, especially considering it is only at beta level.
The main word of warning with lightweight disros is you have to be careful with installing new apps/ swapping the lightweight ones out for ones that work better – you end up installing a load of gmome and KDE dependencies and your machine starts slowing down again like a windows box!
A few points of note:
Chromium daily builds can lead to a fairly unstable browsing experience and I have had to install firefox to supplement. PCMANFM crashes on one of my fuse mounted NAS partitions and I had to supplement by installing Thunar which works fine.
XFburn doesn’t have a direct audio cd copy facility (have to go via ISO route) and I installed the cli based ‘Burn’ from the repos to address this. I guess what I’m saying is lighweight OS is a good goal to aim for, especially with older hardware, but it’s no use if the bundled lightweight apps don’t cut the mustard for mainstream computing tasks.
Guy
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t remember your telling us how much space is requires for Lubuntu. Please advise.
anyone tested blueman (or other bluetooth layer) on Lubuntu?
@ Earl Violet : I have a Dell C600 and only a rare few Linux distributions can manage to display correctly at 1024. Usually you’re stuck at 800 so here’s a link to configure your Xorg.conf properly : http://www.ubuntugeek.com/fix-for-video-problem-on-the-dell-latitude-c600c500.html
Hey,
Lubuntu is a project I excitedly watch and look forward to maturing, however I don’t think it’s fair to call this a novice friendly distro when compared to more heavy weight DE based ones like Ubuntu.
With full GUI support in Gnome, the Ubuntu Software Center, and the fact that Ubuntu 10.04 is an LTS release whereas Lubuntu 10.04 is not and, if I understand correctly, closer to beta quality than final at this point. All those points seem to combine to make it much less novice friendly than an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS install.
That’s not saying a nerdy GNU/Linux newbie couldn’t handle Lubuntu, but non-computer people would likely not want to hassle with the added problems or work they might see under Lubuntu as compared to Ubuntu.
Anyway, again this isn’t a slam at Lubuntu as I really look forward to the project maturing and hope it’s LTS quality in time for 12.04, but I think it’s inaccurate to say it’s a novice friendly distro.
Cheers,
daemox