Lubuntu fails to gain official Ubuntu spin status this cycle

By , Published September 4, 2010

Lubuntu will not become an official Ubuntu 'spin' this cycle, Julien Lavergne has confirmed on the Lubuntu mailing list.

Lubuntu had hoped to gain official status during the Lucid cycle before shifting its goal to Maverick.

So why hasn't it gained the official stamp of Ubuntu? Lubuntu developer Julien states that the following reasons have helped contribute to the decision: -

for the reasons, there is still a resource problem on Canonical /Ubuntu infrastructure, which was not resolved during this cycle. Also, they are writing a real process to integrate new member in the Ubuntu family, but it’s still not finished.

Still available

Lubuntu will still continue to made available for users to download and worked on the super-light distro shall continue apace.

Here's hoping the spin gets a look in next time!

Download Lubuntu Beta

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  2. Proposed Lubuntu 10.10 Release Schedule
  3. Lubuntu Beta 3 released
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  • ActionParsnip

    Awwwwww man :’(

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/KMPHGHUPTWF44FRE33TFX74DFE Ankur S

    That really sucks. Don’t lose heart lubuntu devs!!!

  • http://twitter.com/shishimaru1000 Salvatore Cresce

    As always.

  • Anonymous

    Lubuntu’s GUI is too windows-ish. I don’t want to try it.

    • Token

      Yeah, when I tried it the first thing I thought was “oh, this looks exactly like windows!!”, same with KDE…

    • http://www.google.com/profiles/harveycabaguio Harvey

      You can customize gnome to be window-ish. Does that mean you don’t want to try it?

      • Anonymous

        I don’t really understand your mean.
        I don’t like that the Linux’s GUI is windows-ish. So I never customize GNOME so that it looks like Windows.
        Each OS should have its own style, not intimate others

        • http://twitter.com/afroman10496 Joe Lawrence

          You can customize lxde’s interface to be… um… gnome-ish XD

  • http://wakoopa.com/yo2boy yo2boy

    Epic Sadface. D:

  • exploder

    I just took a look at the new Lubuntu beta, these guys are doing nice work. I see little improvements and refinements to the gui, it really looks nice! Canonical is clearly making a mistake by not adding Lubuntu to it’s official line up. Congratulations to the Lubuntu Developer’s on a nice beta release.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/44RKEMFIHPAGRRE4I4RILSNYDU FlyC

    I’ll keep using it, I’m very satistied. And about the look, I simply tranformed it to ubuntu ambiance.. :)
    (howto: bit.ly/lubuntuamb )

  • http://twitter.com/afroman10496 Joe Lawrence

    Awww -_-
    That sucks. I love lubuntu.

  • uzi

    Resource problem…. with he software cos when I installed it it used upo 400 Mb of my lowly 512!!!

    • ActionParsnip

      I’ll run fine on that. You may want to trim the startup apps using bum etc

  • A. N. A. Mouse

    A one-line description of what Lubuntu is would be nice.

    • Asem Arafa

      Lubuntu is a Ubuntu based distro that uses a light weight interface(LXDE instead of Ubuntu’s Gnome) and applications suitable for older machines.

    • Asem Arafa

      Lubuntu is a Ubuntu based distro that uses a light weight interface(LXDE instead of Ubuntu’s Gnome) and applications suitable for older machines.

      • ActionParsnip

        Pretty much perfect =D

      • ActionParsnip

        Pretty much perfect =D

  • Schalken

    Yet Fedora, OpenSUSE, et al. all have LXDE ‘spins’ prominently featured on their sites. I don’t know why Canonical is dragging its feet with Lubuntu. I found even the alphas of Lubuntu 10.04 to be perfectly cromulent. For all I care, they ought to strip Kubuntu and Xubuntu of official status and make Lubuntu the only official alternative to Gnone Ubuntu.

    • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

      Kudos for using the word “cromulent” but you almost lost it at “Gnone” :D

  • Marie

    Thank goodness there is Xubuntu which is a stable, unique, and balanced alternative.

  • Poltak

    From my experience with it, I think Lubuntu is great! A very nice look and feel for a lightweight alternative and, in my opinion, quite an improvement compared to Xubuntu when it comes to “lightweight-ness”.
    I hope the Lubuntu guys do eventually get recognition as an official derivative of Ubuntu.

  • http://twitter.com/zc456 Zenon Tigerpaw

    I can understand. Personally, Lubuntu feels as unbranded as Kubuntu. Like they just slapped LXDE interface on and called it day.

  • Anonymous

    One day Lubuntu… one day..

  • qwez

    maybe if Lubuntu become official in Canonical, i will use it since i have older hardware . . . i dont like XFCE since in my humble opinion not really leightweight :)

    • semko

      Xfce is lightweight, not as lxde but still. I’d rather say that the implementation of Xfce in various distros (like xubuntu) is bad. But on the other side there are examples of good implementation like that of crunchbang linux.

    • ActionParsnip

      I’d say it was their choice of apps with it as well as XFCE. XUbuntu seems to be losing it’s lightness.

    • ActionParsnip

      I’d say it was their choice of apps with it as well as XFCE. XUbuntu seems to be losing it’s lightness.

  • Green

    Considering Lubuntu really is lightweight compared to the rather heavy Xubuntu, I wish they come to replace it with Lubuntu. Simply because too many alternatives is confusing for the MS-refugee. And especially since Xubuntu is viewed as lightweight when it really isn’t – at all.

  • Eric Kalki

    Would you share your ideas about apt-P2P , and other alternative that could cut server usage ?

  • Anonymous

    Sadly I feel that LXDE still lacks a certain amount of integration necessary for a high class distribution. That’s why they use DEs and Unity in their official versions of things- it needs to have that degree of integration and expectability.

    To be quite honest, with the emergence of nouveau’s compositing support, Gnome 3, KDE 4, and Unity, it’s becoming quite obvious that support for older computers will be second-hand rather than primary, and it will be for light distros to take care of.

    When I say old I mean from the 90s, by the way. If you have 256 MB of RAM, you probably have an Intel/NVIDIA/AMD compositing device. Heck, even anything that shipped with Windows 95 or OS X would probably have compositing support now.

    So I think they’re going to leave the non-compositing stuff to WMs, while having the option to use their DEs without it, of course. (think KDE 4, the plasmoids all work just fine even with compositing off, you just get a solid panel and no shiny effects for workspaces and window management).

    But yeah, I’m glad they’re putting in the effort, but I think Canonical’s trying to cut down on superfluous distros and beef up those that aren’t dead simple to create yourself in a matter of minutes using packages already available.

    I do, however, appreciate the hard work that has been done, and don’t discount it at all. I think it’s an amazing project. I just don’t think it’s what Canonical is looking for ‘officially’.

  • Anonymous

    I like the photo. Can you share me?

  • Anonymous

    I like the photo. Can you share me?

  • daas88

    Delayed once again? =/
    Lubuntu is like a new adopted child, rejected by his brothers

 
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