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lubuntu 12.04 Release Notes

New Features in Lubuntu 12.04

This release of Lubuntu contains:

  • A new software-center, optimized to be lightweight, for easy installation and removal of applications from your system.

Lubuntu Applications

  • LXDE, the lightweight desktop environnement, including applications such as Pcmanfm and LXAppearance.
  • Openbox, the fast and extensible, default windows-manager of LXDE.
  • Chromium, the open source version of the Google browser Chrome.
  • For more detail, please see the full list of applications

System Requirements

A Pentium II or Celeron system with 128 MB of RAM is probably a bottom-line configuration that may yield slow yet usable system with a standard lubuntu desktop.

Default i686 (32 bit) images support more hardware than the equivalent Ubuntu image, as it uses a non-PAE kernel, but is limited to 4 GB of memory. If you have more than 4 GB of memory on a 32 bit system, head over to Get Lubuntu for a fuller discussion.

For PowerPC, it is known to run on a G4 running at 867MHz with 640MB RAM.

For Intel based Macs, lubuntu should run on all models.

Download

To download Lubuntu and see the various options available head over to Get Lubuntu. This section also discusses both the standard installs and those required for computers with low memory (RAM), old chipsets (i586), PowerPC, Mac and low disk-space (netbooks).

Known Issues

Installation

Broken icon falsely indicates reducing the size of a partition is not possible. (986607)

Graphics and Display

None

Applications

  • gnome-mplayer may crash on some specific hardware (Pentium 3 or Pentium 4). Installing the package mplayer should work-around the problem. (974125)

  • lxkeymap may crash on certain keyboard configuration. (945603)

Changes since 11.10

  • New artwork is used.

  • Lubuntu 12.04 now uses Lightdm as the display manager with the lightdm-gtk-greeter.

  • Blueman is now used instead of gnome-bluetooth for managing bluetooth devices.

Support

This release is supported for 18 months (12.04 Lubuntu is not an LTS).