Lubuntu is Official!
The LXDE-based Ubuntu release for low powered systems will be officially supported by Canonical according to this announcement
I’m not certain if this is good or bad. There are some things that I’d like to see updated in Lubuntu , but I definitely don’t want to see some of the new features without a way to fall back to the old way.
Some advice for Canonical – remember that people use Lubuntu for stability first and lower system resource requirements. Any changes that impact those 2 main items need to be carefully considered.
You may want to try out the 11.04 Lubuntu release.
Get Natty Shortcuts with Lucid Stability
I like the latest Ubuntu Natty 11.04, but it doesn’t like my system. It locked up much too often to be used here. That’s too bad because I became addicted to the quick launch using keyboard shortcuts. Addicted.
So after the last crash running unity-2D, I gave up on Unity, 11.04, and started using my LXDE-based Ubuntu 10.04 again. I missed those built-in keyboard quick launchers enough to look up how to create them. It was pretty easy to add them to LXDE. I suspect it is possible to do similar settings for Gnome-based desktops, but the examples below will not work for stock gnome.
