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= Welcome =

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'''Welcome to the Lubuntu flavour wiki page'''

The objective of the Lubuntu project is to create a variant of [[http://ubuntu.com | Ubuntu]] that is lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient by using lightweight applications and [[http://lxde.org/ | LXDE]], The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, as its default [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI | GUI]].

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. 

The default "Desktop" installer requires 384-800 MB of RAM (depending on selected options.)  If you have problems, please use the [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Alternate_ISO|alternative installer]].

= Get Lubuntu =

[[attachment:lubuntu.png|{{attachment:lubuntu_mini.png}}]]

To download Lubuntu and see the various options available head over to [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu | 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). Make sure to read the release notes!

== 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 ([[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/990091 | it shows as Ubuntu, but updates Lubuntu]]); Alternatively, launch [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/DocumentationHelp/LXTerminal | LXTerminal]] and enter

{{{
sudo do-release-upgrade
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Please NOTE:  Upgrade details (along with all detail on this page) apply to legacy releases of Lubuntu using LXDE.  Lubuntu switched to the newer LXQt desktop with Lubuntu 18.10 meaning the instruction here ended after upgrading to Lubuntu 18.04 LTS.

If you read later release notes (eg. https://lubuntu.me/focal-1-released/) you'll read 

 * "Note, due to the extensive changes required for the shift in desktop environments, the Lubuntu team does not support upgrading from 18.04 or below to any greater release. Doing so will result in a broken system. If you are on 18.04 or below and would like to upgrade, please do a fresh install."

= 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 [[http://ubuntuforums.org/ | Forum Area]] and share many Wiki Pages.

The differences between Lubuntu and Ubuntu are:

 * Different [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment | DE]] - Lubuntu uses [[http://lxde.org/ | LXDE]] while Ubuntu uses [[http://unity.ubuntu.com/ | Unity]] as the default DE on releases up to Lubuntu 18.04 LTS.  Lubuntu uses [[https://lxqt.org// | LXQt]] from Lubuntu 18.10.
 * 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 Ubuntu’s 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 Lubuntu’s starting applications and the most used softwares in Windows 7:

||<tablestyle="width:95%;" rowbgcolor="#0066FF" rowstyle="color:#FFFFFF;text-align:center;font-weight:bold;">Lubuntu Application || Function || Windows Software || Included in SP1 ||
|| Xpad || Stickies || Microsoft !OneNote || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF"> Evince || PDF Viewer || Adobe Reader|| {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| Gnumeric || Spreadsheet || Microsoft Excel || {{attachment:no.png}} (Office suite)||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Abiword || Docs || Microsoft Word || {{attachment:no.png}} (Office suite)||
|| Simple-scan || Scanner || || {{attachment:no.png}} (driver) ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Gnome-disk-utility || Partition Editor || Disk Manager || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| Light-locker || Screensaver || Scrnsaver || {{attachment:yes.png}}||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Guvcview || Webcam Utility || || {{attachment:no.png}} (driver) ||
|| Gucharmap || Character Map|| Character map || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Scrot || Screenshot|| || {{attachment:no.png}} (3rd party app) ||
|| Hardinfo || System info || System profiler ||  {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Mtpaint || Image Editing || Paint || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| Xfburn || Cd Burning || || {{attachment:no.png}} (3rd party app) ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Pcmanfm || File Manager|| Explorer || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| Gcalculator || Calculator|| Calc || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Audacious || Audio Player || Windows Media Player || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| Gnome-mplayer|| Video Player || Windows Media Player || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Transmission || Torrent || || {{attachment:no.png}} (3rd party app) ||
|| Pidgin || Instant Messaging || Microsoft Lync|| {{attachment:no.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Sylpheed || Email Client || Outlook || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| Mozilla Firefox || Web browser || Internet Explorer || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Leafpad || Editor || Notepad / Wordpad || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| File-roller || (De)Compress files || Explorer ||  {{attachment:yes.png}} (only ZIP files) ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Lxterminal || Terminal || cmd || {{attachment:yes.png}} (some features) ||
|| Gpicview || Image Viewer || Windows Media Center || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
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= 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:

 * [[Lubuntu/ReportingBugs |Reporting bugs]]
 * [[Lubuntu/Translations |Translations]]
 * [[Lubuntu/Developers | Code & patches]]
 * [[Lubuntu/Artwork |Artwork]]
 * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/DocumentationTeam|Documentation]]
 * [[Lubuntu/Marketing |Marketing & Press]]
 * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing | Testing]]

Please visit out primary web site : 

More detail are available on the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/GettingInvolved | Getting Involved]] page.

= Links =

== Official links ==

 . {{attachment:circle.png}} [[http://lubuntu.me/ | Lubuntu Website]]
 . {{attachment:circle.png}} [[http://lubuntu.me/blog/ | The Lubuntu Blog]]
 . {{attachment:circle.png}} [[https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop | Lubuntu on Launchpad]]
 . {{attachment:circle.png}} [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/WikiMap | Lubuntu Wiki map]]
 . {{attachment:circle.png}} [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LubuntuLinks | Lubuntu OneStopPage]]
 . {{attachment:circle.png}} [[Lubuntu/AdvancedMethods| 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 [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat|this]]. Lubuntu related channels are:


||<tablestyle="width: 96%;" rowbgcolor="#0066FF" rowstyle="color:#FFFFFF;text-align:center;font-weight:bold;">Channel||Description||Contact team||
||[[irc://irc.freenode.net/lubuntu|#lubuntu]]||Lubuntu help channel||[[https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop|Lubuntu team]]||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF"> [[irc://irc.freenode.net/lubuntu-offtopic|#lubuntu-offtopic]]||Community related non-support discussion||[[https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop|Lubuntu team]]||
||[[irc://irc.freenode.net/lubuntu-devel|#lubuntu-devel]]||Lubuntu development and QA coordination||[[https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-irc-ops|Lubuntu IRC team]]||

== Social media ==
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== LXDE ==

 * [[http://lxde.org | LXDE Website]]
 * [[https://launchpad.net/~lxde | LXDE on Launchpad]]
 * [[LXDE | LXDE on Ubuntu Wiki]]
 * [[Specs/UbuntuLxdeDesktop | 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 [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/LXQt | here ]].