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Lubuntu 10.04 is now available for download

Sun, 05/02/2010 - 23:39 — Mario Behling

Julien Lavergne released the final "stable beta" version of lubuntu 10.04.

- Torrent : http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-10.04.iso.torrent
- Direct download : http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-10.04.iso
- MD5Sum: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/md5sum.txt

== What is Lubuntu ? ==

Lubuntu is a Ubuntu variant using the LXDE desktop. It's designed to be a lightweight and easy-to-use desktop environment. Lubuntu is currently not part of the Ubuntu family, and not build with the current Ubuntu infrastructure. This release is considered as a « stable beta », a result that could be a final and stable release if it was included in the Ubuntu family. Please note also that Lubuntu 10.04 is not a LTS version. For the future we aim to include all packages of lubuntu in the Ubuntu repository.

== Features ==

- Based on the lightweight LXDE desktop environment.
- Pcmanfm 0.9.5, the rewrite of pcmanfm using gio/gvfs.
- Lxdm, a new and lightweight GTK display manager.
- Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome.
- ... and, of course, based on Ubuntu 10.04

See the complete list of applications on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Applications
The release notes are available on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/ReleaseNotes/LucidLynx

== Specific Lubuntu changes ==

Lubuntu still contains modifications not available in the official repository, you can see them in the Lubuntu PPA [1] :
- New pcmanfm2 and libfm (LP: #523433)
- lubuntu-default-settings with pcmanfm2 support
- Fix for blurry shutdown-icon from elementary-icons (LP: #527345)
- Autologin support in ubiquity (LP: #546445)

== Thanks of Julien ==

I would like to thank all people involved in the development of Lubuntu during this past 6 months :

Thanks to the LXDE team for providing this nice desktop environment.

Thanks to Rafael for his wonderful work on the artwork.

Thanks to Mario for his wonderful work on the website, the wiki and all the advertising.

Thanks to all testers which help in the testing process, and make Lubuntu better.

Thanks to all people which help to provide support and documentation to new Lubuntu users.

It was a pleasure to work with you.

This release is not an end, but just the beginning. More will happen in the next releases :-)

== Links ==
Website: http://lubuntu.net
Documentation: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu
LXDE website: http://lxde.org/

[1] : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop/+archive/ppa

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Comments

by Anonymous on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 03:21

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by Anonymous on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 03:09

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by Anonymous on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 20:25

cd does not start nor with deamon tools

I hope that friends help me I'm trying to install lubuntu but I start the cd when I get this booting press enter and tells me Could not find image: linux but hey it burned down two times and two times is not good and nothing that also try going to start with deamon tools and even unable to boot. is as if he had autorun or anything I hope to help me by fa really want to enjoy lubuntu and thank you very much.
by Anonymous on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 09:59

I made a 64 bit lubuntu install cd - anyone want?

From shamil Hi, i've seen that many users were desiring a 64 bit release of lubuntu 10.04 (even myself), and that even many were unable to go the ubuntu mini install cd route. So, i took a 64 bit ubuntu mini install cd, installed the lubuntu-desktop meta package, then afterwards spun out an iso with remastersys. I added no extra programs or configurations; it's just as plain as the 32 bit version (aside from remastersys and the 64 bit exclusive). Anyway, it works great. I wanted to know if there was a place on the internet i could put the iso or if you lubuntu guys wanted it. In hind sight. I created the iso for myself, but then i thought about others needs. This lxde version of ubuntu is really awesome. It's the best looking, minimal resource footprint, and has a good default program selection.
by Anonymous on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 00:11

yes

were can i find it
by Anonymous on Sun, 08/08/2010 - 03:37

Yes! put up a torrent of it!

Please put up a torrent and MD5 of that! I really want an easy 64 bit install of Lubuntu.
by Anonymous on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 02:14

Great!

Simple and easy... Consider adding a Netbook version and this distribution will become really popular as LXDE is lighter than XFCE, and much ligher than GNOME/KDE.
by Anonymous on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 10:02

There is a netbook interface

From shamil There's already an integrated netbook interface in there. You can select it at the login screen at the sessions menu.
by Anonymous on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 06:11

Do you plan to release a 64bits version?

I love this distribution. NB100 works flawlessly. Any plans about releasing a 64bits version? Thanks.
by Anonymous on Sat, 07/31/2010 - 21:18

You can install the Lubuntu

You can install the Lubuntu meta-package upon a 64-bit Ubuntu-mini system.
by Anonymous on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 12:19

SiS 305 support

Lubuntu works fine on my old laptop, but during installation it has not recognized my SiS 305 and runs at minimal resolution and color depth. Unfortunately I do not know how to fix this. Simply getting updates did not help. The Debian I had installed before had recognized the correct resolution without asking me for any graphics specifications.
by Anonymous on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 14:04

Shortcut to script on panel

Hi all, this system is great. I have installed it on my toshiba 4300 (600 mhz celeron, 320 MB RAM) and it's flying .... but i have little problem. I create panel only for launchers at the top of screen like is in classic ubuntu but i have no idea how to make shortcut for .sh script located in my home folder to this panel
by Anonymous on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 11:17

maintain Lubuntu updated through PPA?

Hey, guys. Thank you for this great distro. I love it. I have a question, though. Pcmanfm2 has been updated to version 0.9.7, I think, but in your PPA the latest version is 0.9.5. I know Lubuntu 10.04 is an official stable release, so I understand you will not update your package base to introduce new features, just like Ubuntu does. But keep in mind that the Lubuntu version of Pcmanfm was a beta, and this new Pcmanfm version is a bug-fix release. So my question is, will you keep your PPA updated, so we, the users, can enjoy bug-fix releases of the software contained there, or will be have to wait for the next Lubuntu release (10.10) to use the latest and greatest? Thanks.
by Anonymous on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 10:51

maintain Lubuntu updated through PPA?

Hey, guys. Thank you for this great distro. I love it. I have a question, though. Pcmanfm2 has been updated to version 0.97, I think, but in your PPA the latest version is 0.95. I know Lubuntu 10.04 is an official stable release, so I understand you will not update your package base to introduce new features, just like Ubuntu does. But keep in mind that the Lubuntu version of Pcmanfm was a beta, and this new Pcmanfm version is a bug-fix release. So my question is, will you keep your PPA updated, so we, the users, can enjoy bug-fix releases of the software contained there, or will be have to wait for the next Lubuntu release (10.10) to use the latest and greatest? Thanks.
by Anonymous on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 08:32

lubuntu is not a faster - not optimization for i686 ((((((

Unfortunately, Lubuntu is not faster - optimization for i386(KERNEL only for i686) (((( only for old very old machine with little memory!!!
by Anonymous on Wed, 06/02/2010 - 08:15

Well done

This is the fastest desktop linux distro I tried on my old laptop so far. Together with Thunderbird & Chromium we finally have a *quick* internet station in our living room again.
by Anonymous on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 19:12

Use TOTEM as a light YouTube player - works on old 650MHz PIII !

Hi. The latest xubuntu kills my old PentiumIII/650MHz/256MB laptop as much as a full ubuntu install - but lubuntu works, slick and efficient, which is brilliant. /// Sadly, everything grinds to a halt with YouTube, even in Chrome: you get jerky playback and uninterrupted 100% CPU useage (I always have a CPU monitor in the panel, on all my PCs) which makes the whole machine grind to a halt. /// HOWEVER! After a failed attempt with Minitube, I remembered that TOTEM has a YouTube player built in. It works PERFECTLY. Totally smooth video. It uses about 85% CPU, even in full screen (so the mouse and so on still work perfectly), and it plays the video and audio as well as any machine! /// Can I suggest putting Totem into the standard distribution, and even drawing attention to this feature? You could even list it in the menu as "YouTube player". /// Thanks for the great work. /// Michael H.
by Anonymous on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 09:40

Further tests of TOTEM as light YouTube player

Further testing of TOTEM as a light YouTube player versus YouTube-in-Firefox, on (1) 1yo Atom-based Netbook w 1GB RAM and (2) 8yo P4/2.5GHz/2GB, both with full Ubuntu 10.04. In (1), YouTube-in-Firefox takes about 90% processor - I'm guessing the machine was designed with successful YouTube in mind as the benchmark - but YouTube-in-Totem takes just 45% processor. Now that's light! In (2), YouTube-in-Totem takes about 40% processor, but YouTube-in-Firefox takes a full 98%, with (now that I have something to compare!) jerkier video and poorer sound! Go Totem!
by Anonymous on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 23:28

Hey, maybe you find this

Hey, maybe you find this userscript in handy: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50771 In Firefox you need a greasemonkey plugin and in Chromium it works out-of-the-box. In both though you need a media player plugin for browser, like mplayer plugin for firefox. In this way you can watch youtube movies with gpu acceleration right in your browser and also, you can download movies in idiotic simple way - a link for every available quality is provided under a movie.
by Anonymous on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 15:46

LOGO

In my opinion a FEATHER would be a good symbol for the logo
by Anonymous on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 15:41

RAM Infor.

I booted an old PC (380Mb of RAM, Pentium III Xeon/celeron, or something like that) with the Lubuntu Lice-CD to see how fast it went and I got a very good impression for both: speed and look. I used the application to generate a system report to use it later. The memory report gaved information of its use only but no info about the chips used and the frequency. I ignore if it is possible to collect info from the BIOS but maybe collecting all that info would be useful too.
by Anonymous on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 20:50

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by Anonymous on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 15:07

Great job (and a tip for wireless install)

Men, that was a really great job. My Compaq P4/256 RAM/40GbHDD was horrible with Xubuntu 9.10 but works perfect with Lubuntu 10.04: fast (really fast) and well. Only a couple of little problems just after the installation was finished: 1.- My Dlink DWL-650+ was not recognized by the system. 2 hours after web-searching, and after 3 different attempts, I finally had to install ndiswrapper. Once installed, automatically the wireless card was recognized. But when system was restarted, Network was disabled by default, so I must install wicd and, now yes, all worked fine. 2.- Flash dont work at full screen. I can only see vídeos on Chromium window, but when I try to go full screen, Chromium closes and desktop appears. Thanks for this distro. Waiting for the official 10.10 ;)
by Anonymous on Thu, 05/20/2010 - 18:08

Create a shortcut

Hello. How can i make a shortcut to a file or folder in Lubuntu?
by Anonymous on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 12:14

Srell Al Masri

Hello! I tried to burn the iso for three times, but when I go live, the error check signals 1 error. I don't want to waste CDs, is there a way to install lubuntu from a USB pen? Sorry for my bad english ;) Thank You!
by Anonymous on Wed, 07/07/2010 - 04:30

live usb pen

install mtools package and try using UNetBootin, easily downloaded from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
by Anonymous on Mon, 05/17/2010 - 07:31

Ipod touch support?

First of all, I'd like to say that this is one of the fastest distros I've ever tried, running perfectly smooth on my AAO. A minor problem, though - when i was using regular Ubuntu 10.04, Rhytmbox recognised my iPod touch just fine. Rhytmbox under Lubuntu 10.04, however, does not. What packages would I need to install to fix this? (Also, it would be great if there was a lighter application with ipod-support, but I guess that's not possible at the moment)
by Anonymous on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 21:22

trying the live CDs on my laptops

On my IBM Thinkpad A20m 9.10 and 10.04 both work, on my Dell Precision M50 9.10 worked but 10.04 looks like a bad impressionist painting of a Lubuntu desktop, smeared, shattered, blurred and unusable. I would use 9.10 but all the errors it shows in bootup make me think it would cause trouble. I have not tried Ubuntu 10.04 on the Dell yet so I do not know if it works or not. I was planning on using the same desktop/OS on both.
by Anonymous on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 17:03

Solutions for Lubuntu problems on newer computers.

On the final test release, I reported some problems. I've been busy and only now I had some free time to test a couple of solutions I had in mind. And so, I'd like to share them with all of you.
    If you have an NVIDIA graphic card and you'd like to use it for your gamming or whatever, just go on Synaptic and install the "nvidia-common" package. Then, go to the Menu and on Preferences/Hardware Drivers just install the driver you want as you would on regular Ubuntu.
      And for those who noticed that flash consumes more resources than it does on another derivative, like Xubuntu... No need to give up on Lubuntu, because it's a Chrome problem. It just can't handle it properly. So, the solution is go on Synaptic and install "firefox".
        There you go... Simple solutions for big problems. Hope y'all enjoy it, Glücklich
by Anonymous on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 02:09

Lubuntu on Dell Latitude CPx

I have been distro-hopping since lubuntu alpha 3, testing lubuntu and comparing it to other distros, so that I could make a long-term commitment to a distro. Since February I have tried various releases of Xubuntu 10.04, Lubuntu 10.04, MintXFCE Helena, and Ubuntu 10.04. The various Lubuntu releases have been quicker, use less RAM, a lot less cpu, and my cpu fan comes on a lot less. I am impressed with the performance of my old Dell Latitude CPx running Lubuntu (650 Mhz cpu, 512 MB RAM, 20 gig drive) and it is now my primary operating system. To be honest, I was also surprised at how quickly Ubuntu 10.04 runs on this machine. For the last year and a half I have been running Xubuntu on this machine, and assumed that performance level was all I could expect. I guess Xubuntu is slower than I thought, because I did not think that Ubuntu ran all that much slower, and Lubuntu seems peppy. I miss the weather update in my panel, and there are a couple of minor issues I am working around, but Lubuntu is here to stay.
by Anonymous on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 14:33

Excellent work, best lightweight distro by far

I've been following the betas of Lubuntu since the start, but I've still been blown away by the speed and out-of-the box functionality of this release. It boots faster than any other major distribution, wireless and browsers work without any hassle (even hidden networks, always a problem in other distros). Kudos to the developers - keep up the great work, I look forward to seeing this distribution develop into the 'main' Ubuntu lightweight alternative :)
by Anonymous on Sun, 05/16/2010 - 19:43

right

Just a word to say that i'm very happy with it, I tested about 6,7 distro for my notebook (aspire one 512Mo), and this one is the fastest, coolest and greater one. Thanks guys !
by Anonymous on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 09:22

LXTerminal weird pastes?

If I copy text from chromium-browser and paste it into an LXTerminal tab, it will appear not to work. Later I will switch to another tab and find the text there. I'm not sure how to chase this down and whom I should notify. Thank you!
by Anonymous on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 10:30

Did you try pasting the text

Did you try pasting the text with Ctrl+Shift+V?
by Anonymous on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 13:20

Did you try pasting the text

Yes, In this case, I had the first tab active and the text went to the third tab.
by Anonymous on Wed, 05/12/2010 - 18:30

Did you try pasting the text

Perhaps it has to do with moving tabs around. Maybe it is trying to paste to where the tab was. I cannot reproduce the effect at will.
by Anonymous on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 20:12

Lubuntu rocks

Thumbs up! I loved crunchbang lite (and I still do), but lubuntu just has a much faster boot and, when idle, my netbook reaches 3ºC less. Great work & many thanks... ...and... :) - will there eventually be a forum for the users to exchange ideas, tips & tricks? - is anybody else experiencing weird things like the system not recognizing a fully charged battery and so suspending the session? - is there a working way to power-manage the system? The power management in the advanced tab of the xscreensaver doesn´t (always) work for me.
by Anonymous on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 16:13

Testing the Live-CD

  • 1. I experienced little trouble with the double-clicks. Sometimes it didn't respond. Especially when trying to roll up&down the windows.
  • 2. At some point, the Workspace Switcher lost one of its squares, it had only one, while there were still both working, with windows on each.
  • 3. In my opinion.. disk drives shouldn't be mounted with just one click. It should be two clicks at most, or even better: right click and decide to mount read-only or rw (the main options) and you should be asked for administrative password when necessary.
  • 4. I dislike so many controls in the "passwd" program. If I want to change my passwd from "1234hello" to "hello1234", for example, it doesn't let me do it. I need to register a third password and then change it and then register the one I want. That's stupid!! The program will never be more intelligent than me and doesn't know why I want to change it. A WARNING is enough.
  • 5. The windows' menus should have the shortcuts in them and one should be able to learn, using the system, that ALT-SPACE pops up this menu which allows to brings back the title menu of an "undecorated window" (a window without title"
  • 6. When you delete a file in PcmanFm it actually asks you if you want to delete it. Great! Nautilus hasn't accomplished that in years!
    • by Anonymous on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 07:42

    Thanks

    Great work guys! Thanks for that great derivative of Ubuntu. Is 64-bit support planned?
    by Anonymous on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 15:53

    Not Decrypting WEP 128 on Fujitsu P1120

    I have a Fujitsu Lifebook P1120 ("original" netbook form factor). It has a Transmeta Crusoe CPU at 800Mhz - about equivalent to 400 Mhz Intel - and 240 MB usable RAM. Lubuntu runs fairly slow compared to Puppy Linux, but acceptable - about equivalent to my Nokia n810 Internet Tablet: click/tap, wait a few seconds. Pro: One nice aspect is that it supports the P1120 touchscreen (unless coming back from suspend, in which case both touchscreen and trackpoint fail to respond - same thing I have seen with Crunchbang 9.04 and Puppy 4.x). CON: There is a deal-breaker, though: the WEP 128 support for the built-in Prism wifi is failing to decrypt the packets from the access point (AP), whereas that was never a problem with Puppy or Crunchbang on this PC. I look at the iwconfig output and compare the key setting (copy/pasted from file on flash drive I always use for this wifi setup to avoid mistakes in key entry) to that of another notebook accessing the same AP, and they are identical. The "good" PC shows zero "invalid crypt"count, but the P1120's invalid crypt count keeps climbing, so it looks like something is wrong with the WEP decryption implementation. TIA, RO
    by Anonymous on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 08:11

    boot.cat md5 checksum error

    If I select the 'Check CD for defects the boot menu... Lubunto live-cd tell me　there is 1 file error. I check the ISO's MD5,the md5 checksum is ok. Then I extract all files in the ISO to harddisk and check the MD5SUM.TXT. I found 1 error ( isolinux\boot.cat) Is there any thing wrong?
    by Anonymous on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 20:45

    Same problem here

    Does anyone know a solution for that error? Installing freezes with a black window and doesn't continue.
    by Anonymous on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 01:18

    md5sums of the BOOT.CAT file

    EXACTLY THE SAME thing happens to me. Both thngs. These are the md5sum values for each: 1. MD5SUM of the /isolinux/boot.cat file inside a cdrom burned from a correct ISO image: fb491c2b033ec7138f5cf896a3c6f611 2. MD5SUM value for boot.cat, according to the md5sum.txt file in the CD. 7b1a148e1e93551e91d952fcc56b10c3 ./isolinux/boot.cat
    by Anonymous on Sun, 08/22/2010 - 17:06

    Exactly the same here

    There seems to be some inconsistency in the ISO image. I hope the error is in the md5sums.txt file, not in boot.cat.
    by Anonymous on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 06:47

    Very effective on a P3

    Very effective on a P3 500MHz, 384 Mb RAM. Thanks to the team for this achievement ! :)
    by Anonymous on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 04:51

    I have successfully installed

    I have successfully installed lubuntu 10.04 onto my eeepc 701. It works fine and is really light weight where my 4G SSD still has 2.1G free space. Great job, guys. Then I bump into a stupid problem which is the wifi connection dropped every time I close my eeepc lid, and I can't find anything like or similar to power managerment to tweak it. Can anyone kindly give me some hint on how to fix it bcz eeepc 701's keyboard and lcd are really too small to operate, thx
    by Anonymous on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 19:35

    Lubuntu

    Lubuntu runs absolute fluently on my low-end netbook (VIA C7 1000 MHz, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB SSD). That distro I´ve looked for. Recommendable without any exclusions
    by Anonymous on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 17:29

    Mobile broadband problem

    I tried Lubuntu but I had serious problems with getting the mobile broadband working. I put the Nokia N900 on but Lubuntu did not recognize the mobile as a modem at all. I never got it working. This is too bad, because I would have liked the Lubuntu so much better than this basic Ubuntu which I had to install instead...
    by Anonymous on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 12:34

    Modem Manager is not installed by default

    sudo apt-get install modemmanager after that works great with Huawei E160 E870 and ZTE MF330
    by Anonymous on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 21:09

    Thank You!

    Thank You!