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Welcome to the Lubuntu flavour wiki page

The objective of the Lubuntu project is to create a variant of Ubuntu that is lighter, less resource hungry and
more energy-efficient by using lightweight applications and LXDE, The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment,
as its default GUI.

1. Welcome
2. System Requirements
3. Get Lubuntu
1. Upgrading from last release
4. Lubuntu vs Ubuntu
5. Lubuntu vs Windows 7
6. Contribute to Lubuntu
7. Links
1. Official links
2. IRC channels
3. Social media
4. LXDE
5. LXQt

Lubuntu is targeted at PC and laptop users running on low-spec hardware that, in most cases, just don't have
enough resources for all the bells and whistles of the "full-featured" mainstream distributions. Members of the
team take care of LXDE and other packages that are part of Lubuntu. Lubuntu received official recognition as a
formal member of the Ubuntu family, commencing with Lubuntu 11.10. Even though Lubuntu is a lightweight
distribution, it does not mean you will not be able to run all applications that other distributions are currently offering. It does mean that it is prepared
and developed for low-specification computers. Nonetheless, you can run any application available in the official repositories, as long as your hardware
can bear with it.
Please join us and contribute to an exciting international Free and Open Source Software project. We look forward to working together with you.

System Requirements
We have done many tests and we've found out that Lubuntu can be installed on a Pentium II or Celeron system with 128 MB of RAM, but such a system
would not perform well enough for daily use.
With 256MB - 384MB of RAM, the performance will be better and the system will be more usable.
With 512MB of RAM, you don't need to worry much.
The default "Desktop" installer requires 384-800 MB of RAM (depending on selected options.) If you have problems, please use the alternative installer.

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Get Lubuntu

To download Lubuntu and see the various options available head over to Get Lubuntu. This section discusses both the standard installs and those
required for computers with low memory (RAM), old chipsets (i586) and low disk-space (netbooks). Please read the release notes before you install.

Upgrading from last release

When upgrading, it is recommended that you back up your own data.
The update manager GUI will offer you the next release of Lubuntu (it shows as Ubuntu, but updates Lubuntu); Alternatively, launch LXTerminal and enter

sudo do-release-upgrade

Lubuntu vs Ubuntu
Both Lubuntu and Ubuntu share two major important things: same Core System and same Repositories. Lubuntu and Ubuntu belong to the same family
and talking about each as totally different two systems is not correct since they have some things in common. Thus, we use the same Forum Area and
share many Wiki Pages.
The differences between Lubuntu and Ubuntu are:
Different DE - Lubuntu uses LXDE while Ubuntu uses Unity as the default DE.
Different Default Applications
Other than that, they are the same. The DE is what makes Lubuntu a lightweight OS, and of course the selected applications too because we make sure to
use the lightest applications which are not resource hungry. However, you are still free to use any application available in Ubuntus repositories, as long
as your computer can run it.
Lubuntu is recognized as a member the Ubuntu family by the developers of Ubuntu.
As of 14.04, long term support (LTS) versions are available.

Lubuntu vs Windows 7
For those of you who are feeling that your computer is not working anymore with Windows 7 because, say, it is getting slower, here is a chart comparing
Lubuntus starting applications and the most used softwares in Windows 7:
Lubuntu Application
Xpad

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Function
Stickies

Windows Software
Microsoft OneNote

Included in SP1

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Evince
Gnumeric
Abiword
Simple-scan
Gnome-disk-utility
Light-locker
Guvcview
Gucharmap
Scrot
Hardinfo
Mtpaint
Xfburn
Pcmanfm
Gcalculator
Audacious
Gnome-mplayer
Transmission
Pidgin
Sylpheed
Mozilla Firefox
Leafpad
File-roller
Lxterminal
Gpicview

PDF Viewer

Adobe Reader

Spreadsheet

Microsoft Excel

(Office suite)

Docs

Microsoft Word

(Office suite)
(driver)

Scanner
Partition Editor

Disk Manager

Screensaver

Scrnsaver
(driver)

Webcam Utility
Character Map

Character map
(3rd party app)

Screenshot
System info

System profiler

Image Editing

Paint
(3rd party app)

Cd Burning
File Manager

Explorer

Calculator

Calc

Audio Player

Windows Media Player

Video Player

Windows Media Player

(3rd party app)

Torrent
Instant Messaging

Microsoft Lync

Email Client

Outlook

Web browser

Internet Explorer

Editor

Notepad / Wordpad

(De)Compress files

Explorer

(only ZIP files)

Terminal

cmd

(some features)

Image Viewer

Windows Media Center

These are the minimum hardware requirements in order to run Windows 7:

1 GHz processor or faster, 32 or 64 bits;
1 GB of RAM for the 32 bits version, or at least 2 for the 64 bits version;
16 GB of hard drive (32 bits) or 20 GB (64 bits);
Graphics card that supports DirectX 9 with WDDM 1.0 controler or superior

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For comparison, here are the minimum supported requirements of Lubuntu:

266 MHz processor;
128 MB;
3 GB hard drive;
no fancy graphics
A more usable system would have:
512 MHz processor or faster, 32 or 64 bits;
512 MB of RAM;
6 GB hard drive;
no fancy graphics

Contribute to Lubuntu
Do you want to help make Lubuntu even more awesome? Learn more using the links below. We need contributions in the following areas:
Reporting bugs
Translations
Code & patches
Artwork
Documentation
Marketing & Press
Testing
More detail are available on the Getting Involved page.

Links
Official links
Lubuntu Website
The Lubuntu Blog
Lubuntu on Launchpad
Lubuntu Wiki map
Lubuntu OneStopPage
Lubuntu Advanced Methods

IRC channels
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called
channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message. If you need help on using IRC please read this. Lubuntu related channels are:
Channel
#lubuntu

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Description
Lubuntu help channel

Contact team
Lubuntu team

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#lubuntu-offtopic
#lubuntu-devel

Community related non-support discussion

Lubuntu team

Lubuntu development and QA coordination

Lubuntu IRC team

Social media

Facebook Official page

Facebook Official group

Facebook Off Topic

Facebook QA Testing

Google Plus

Twitter Official Group

Reddit

Pinterest

LXDE
LXDE Website
LXDE on Launchpad
LXDE on Ubuntu Wiki
Ubuntu LXDE Desktop

LXQt
LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and
the Razor-qt projects: A lightweight, modular, blazing-fast and user-friendly desktop environment. For more information on LXQt and the latest
developments bringing it to Lubuntu, see here.
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