Lubuntu is a fast, lightweight and energy-saving variant of Ubuntu using the LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) desktop. It is intended to have low-resource system requirements and is designed primarily for netbooks, mobile devices and older PCs.
Dan Simmons has announced the release of Lubuntu 21.04, an updated version of the projects lightweight distribution with LXQt as its preferred desktop: "Thanks to all the hard work from our contributors, Lubuntu 21.04 has been released. With the code name Hirsute Hippo, Lubuntu 21.04 is the 20th release of Lubuntu, the sixth release of Lubuntu with LXQt as the default desktop environment. Lubuntu is an official Ubuntu flavor which uses the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment (LXQt). The project’s goal is to provide a lightweight yet functional Linux distribution based on a rock-solid Ubuntu base. Lubuntu provides a simple but modern and powerful graphical user interface, and comes with a wide variety of applications so you can browse, email, chat, play and be productive. You can find the following major applications and toolkits installed by default in this release: LXQt 0.16.0 – with many improvements over 0.15; LXQt Archiver 0.3.0 which is based on Engrampa, is now included; Qt 5.15.2; Mozilla Firefox 87.0....
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Lubuntu is a fast, lightweight and energy-saving variant of Ubuntu using the LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) desktop. It is intended to have low-resource system requirements and is designed primarily for netbooks, mobile devices and older PCs.
