

Hoping to see for myself what Lubuntu was all about, I downloaded a recently released live image of the distribution, based on Lucid Lynx alpha 2, and booted it up in VirtualBox. Towards this end, it uses the LXDE desktop environment in combination with the Openbox window manager to keep the demand on system resources low. The Lubuntu project, which was established a year ago as a community endeavor, aims to create a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. Here’s a look at Lubuntu, and thoughts on what its future may hold. But that may change, with a new project, Lubuntu, vying for official endorsement by Canonical. For a long time, the Ubuntu family has had three members–Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu (sorry Edubuntu we’re not counting you).
