Comments on: Lubuntu Alpha 3 Released (Screenshots added)

By: Marierocks

Marierocks — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:21:00 +0000

LXDE and XFCE are great. Too bad Lubuntu is only beta, rc, or alpha…they do not have a stable release. For me, Xubuntu is the balanced choice. :)

By: Marierocks

Marierocks — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:17:00 +0000

Midori is more stable these days. Midori, Chromium, and Epiphany are all faster and/or lighter than Firefox. :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:52:00 +0000

Midori does not use v8 so it’s not as fast as Chrome or Chromium.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:52:00 +0000

Midori does not use v8 so it’s not as fast as Chrome or Chromium.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:33:00 +0000

I assumed as much. I do have problems with it crashing every now and then but it’s still in development, so that’s to be expected. But I’d never had it render pages incorrectly unless I set it to identify as Midori or Internet Explorer. Set to render as Firefox or Safari though, it works great.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:32:00 +0000

It doesnt use gnome at all. It uses lxde. Which is wayyy faster than gnome. Please first look into stuff before you start commenting on it.

By: lxder

lxder — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:43:00 +0000

Yes, that’s PCManFM2 which support gvfs so you’ll get full access to remote filesystems just like nautilus. The only differences are it’s faster and much lighter.

By: daas88

daas88 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:13:00 +0000

have you ever tried lxde? if you compare the performance of regular ubuntu and Lubuntu in a computer with 128~256mb ram, you’ll see the difference. The ram memory footprint is waaay lower.

By: hugmyballs

hugmyballs — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:01:00 +0000

How is it faster? It looks like it’s just running gnome with a few lightweight applications that can, in any case, be installed in Ubuntu. So what’s magically faster about it?

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:50:00 +0000

http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/

“Due to some limitations and unresolved bugs of the original PCManFM included in LXDE, its author, æ´ªä»»è« (Hong Jen Yee), decided to totally redesign and rewrite the whole program.”

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:50:00 +0000

Is that actually PCManFM2? It’s not even released or in the Ubuntu repositories…

By: d0od

d0od — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:23:00 +0000

I will do indeed. I started writing an article about it about a week ago… >.< I'll get my skates on!

By: daas88

daas88 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:08:00 +0000

Why did they rewrite pcmanfm from scratch? could you give us further information about that?

By: daas88

daas88 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:07:00 +0000

I don’t know about Lubuntu specifically, but lxde can fly with an old PII with 128mb ram.

By: daas88

daas88 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:04:00 +0000

It’s based on lxde instead of gnome, so it’s very different from normal ubuntu. Its aim is to provide a light version of ubuntu, as Xubuntu failed at that.

By: d0od

d0od — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:59:00 +0000

Oh yes. Xubuntu being useful for “low end hardware” is largely a myth – it’s recommended specs aren’t that different from GNOME!

Lubuntu on the other hand FLIES.

By: d0od

d0od — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:59:00 +0000

Yes i do believe it is!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:57:00 +0000

Entirely new branch of ubuntu, kinda trying to follow the ubuntu main release schedule.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:57:00 +0000

Fugly menu button. Reminds me of windows XP :(

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:56:00 +0000

I always mount samba shares via fstab and smbfs. But pyneighborhood is a good app for manually doing that.