
If you are on 18.04 or below and would like to upgrade, please do a fresh install."īoth Lubuntu and Ubuntu share two major important things: same Core System and same Repositories.

Please join us and contribute to an exciting international Free and Open Source Software project. Nonetheless, you can run any application available in the official repositories, as long as your hardware can bear with it. It does mean that it is prepared and developed for low-specification computers. Even though Lubuntu is a lightweight distribution, it does not mean you will not be able to run all applications that other distributions are currently offering.

Lubuntu received official recognition as a formal member of the Ubuntu family, commencing with Lubuntu 11.10. Members of the team take care of LXDE and other packages that are part of Lubuntu. Lubuntu is targeted at PC and laptop users running on low-spec hardware that, in most cases, just don't have enough resources for all the bells and whistles of the "full-featured" mainstream distributions. The objective of the Lubuntu project is to create a variant of Ubuntu that is lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient by using lightweight applications and LXDE, The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, as its default GUI. Read this guide in other languages: العَرَبِية More up-to-date information is available on the official Lubuntu website at.
