Mario, when will you release Lubuntu?
Many people ask this question recently. Actually, we do not have an official distribution named Lubuntu… yet. So time to get in touch with the Ubuntu community and Mark Shuttleworth about a cooperation.
I finally met up with Mark today for breakfast here in Berlin and talked with him about the idea of Lubuntu, LXDE and Ubuntu.
As a first step Mark invited us to become a self-maintained project in the Ubuntu community. This means we will be able to manage LXDE inside Ubuntu, ultimately offering an Ubuntu derivative, ergo Lubuntu.
Congratulations to the whole team and community. I am looking forward to this milestone!
Special thanks for supporting the growth of the community and being a link between Asia and Europe to Arne Götje.
More information:
* Lubuntu: lubuntu.net
* Twitter: twitter.com/lubuntudesktop
* Ubuntu: ubuntu.com
* Website of Mark: markshuttleworth.com
* Personal Website: mariobehling.de
Mario Behling is a German born serial entrepreneur. He founded the lubuntu project, and as the co-founder of FOSSASIA he supports communities to develop open technologies for social change. Mario presently works on SUSI AI from his Singapore base.
5 responses to “Lubuntu: LXDE Meet up with Mark Shuttleworth in Berlin”
Great idea!
I love LXDE, I had never used it until trying out Vector Linux Light, and since have installed it under Ubuntu, and its truly amazing the full amount of functionality given for such a small memory print. Under Vector I think I was using about 50Mb of RAM with a file manager, Abiword and Firefox open.
That’s how it should be, none of this 700+Mb used by Vista!!
Lubuntu, that would be the best!
Lintu – Lite(ned) Ubuntu
Debian Live LXDE Edition 🙂