Comments on: Lubuntu 10.04 Alpha 1 – Visual Overview

By: ad

ad — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:21:00 +0000

I’ve been using Lubutu on my EEE netbook for a couple of weeks – it’s great! It’s the fastest Ubuntu variant I have used on the netbook, detecting everything without any issues.

Having used Xubuntu, Crunchbang, U-Lite and many, many others, this distro shows the most promise yet when running on limited hardware like a netbook.

It is also extremely stable – I have not had one crash or hang with it yet. Google Chrome flies along, and the latest updates have halved the boot time for me.

My only criticism would be the lack of an update manager (apt-get update and apt-get upgrade work fine though), and complete lack of printing support (haven’t yet figured out what I need to install here). However, this is only an alpha, and as far as alphas go, this is a very mature distro already.

I look forward to rolling this out to many other low-spec PCs when it becomes stable :)

By: adam

adam — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:27:00 +0000

Yes,but i didn’t found lubuntu-restricted-extras meta-package,so you should search all of these packages. As i saw Lubuntu use Gnash by default.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:12:00 +0000

Yes, of course!

By: David

David — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:38:00 +0000

Will I be able to install all software on Lubuntu which I currently have on KArmic? Like Songbird, OpenOffice, GIMP, OpenShot… ?

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:42:00 +0000

I absolutely agree, this will be awesome! I’ll switch my Arch desktop from Gnome most likely when this occurs. I really can’t do without SSH file transfer within my file manager :)

By: d0od

d0od — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:03:00 +0000

in fact it’s already in Alpha 2!

I keep meaning to post about the similar update to Thunar…

By: Sirgold

Sirgold — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:44:00 +0000

A new version of PCManFM is actively in the works using the same Nautilus subsystem Gvfs to overcome the limitations you’re mentioning. This means ssh, ,sftp, ftp, ssh and all the network protocols that Nautilus supports. This will be awesome!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:50:00 +0000

Also an awesome panel to try together with openbox is tint2: http://code.google.com/p/tint2/ It is used as main panel in crunchbang linux 9.04 :D

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:51:00 +0000

I agree it’s still good for that “just works” factor, and I also still use it as my main/only OS. But there’s a few changes such as
- NotifyOSD removes so much functionality over the old system (rediculously hard to switch), with precisely 0 config options
- Not giving ALSA as an option over Pulseaudio, and switching manually means my volume control icon dies
- Software Centre not showing me what’s happening; only a progress bar with no indication of current action, download speed etc
- The notification area envelope icon makes task switching harder

All little things, but they lead to a more infuriating experience for me as I feel that Ubuntu is imposing things on me without giving me the choice to change them.

I can see that they’re appealing to new users in an OSX-like way (and I don’t see the OSX way as the right way), and I applaud their trying to bring in new users.
I just feel like Ubuntu and I are moving in opposite directions.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:19:00 +0000

What exactly is constraining you? As an advanced user myself, I still use Ubuntu on my main system (hooked up to the TV) purely for the fact that “it just works” If ever I want to play around with something, I can do that too.

The other distro I use quite a lot is Arch, but that’s running on an old box that would struggle to pull any *buntu / Fedora etc.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:15:00 +0000

Urgh. If people really want a lightweight distro, is *buntu really a good choice? Don’t get me wrong, I love Ubuntu (I’m posting from an EEE 701 running Ubuntu Karmic, and I have no issues)

The main issue that I have is that new comers may now be confused by all the choice, not to mention the fact that the applications included are not as good as Ubuntu standard ones.

For me, the show stopper is lack of Nautilus. SSH file transfers by using the “connect to server” feature is possibly one of my favourite things in the world and a massive reason I choose Gnome on pretty much every distro I use.

By: Jim March

Jim March — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:20:00 +0000

I’ve played with LXDE under Karmic and it has serious potential. Fast, looks better than XFCE in my opinion, really sweet. Not quite ready to push onto a newbie user yet as the user interface isn’t fully cleaned up and integrated, but has major promise and if Lubuntu gets it all organized, it’ll quickly overtake Xubuntu.

By: alex

alex — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:11:00 +0000

The only big problem with Lubuntu will be the same as with Xubuntu: localization. I have installed Xubuntu on old hardware and found out that there was half English and half in my native language, big mess and not very useful for non-English speaking people. So on 256 MB computer I have searched around and bought additional 256 MB, so having combine 512 MB RAM and installed Ubuntu. Ubuntu now run very good without any big performance problems and I can run full versions of popular programs like OpenOffice, Firefox etc. and what is the most important is in my local language. This localization was No. 1 requirement by my friend!

By: d0od

d0od — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:14:00 +0000

It was missing a ‘can’ – i.e. “which you can already use in Ubuntu”. Inserrrted.

By: d0od

d0od — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:14:00 +0000

It was missing a ‘can’ – i.e. “which you can already use in Ubuntu”. Inserrrted.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:39:00 +0000

Looking forward to this but for now it’s only for testing.

Fedora has a working (and very cool) LXDE spin here: http://spins.fedoraproject.org/lxde/

Personally I’m very impressed with it. It’s perfect both for netbooks/low powered computers and for those of us who just like to keep things lean and simple.

Enjoy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:39:00 +0000

Looking forward to this but for now it’s only for testing.

Fedora has a working (and very cool) LXDE spin here: http://spins.fedoraproject.org/lxde/

Personally I’m very impressed with it. It’s perfect both for netbooks/low powered computers and for those of us who just like to keep things lean and simple.

Enjoy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:25:00 +0000

Yeeegh. I do not like it personally.

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:38:00 +0000

wicd, not WCid.

Looks like a nice DE but I’m pretty into KDE, which runs fine on the older low-end machines that I have it installed upon. LXDE may be worth looking into, but I don’t like the Ubuntu philosophy in general so if I try LXDE, it won’t be with Lubuntu. I wish this wasn’t the case, but if its not Ubuntu with GNOME, the releases are half-baked in my experience.

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:38:00 +0000

wicd, not WCid.