Future Lubuntu Releases Won't Focus on Old PCs, Will Offer a Modular Linux OS – Exclusive

Lubuntu developer Simon Quigley exclusively informs Softpedia today that future releases of the Lubuntu Linux operating system will shift focus from being a Linux OS for older PCs to a modern, functional and modular GNU/Linux distribution.

From the moment it was created eight years ago, Lubuntu was always known as the official Ubuntu flavor targeted at users of “old computers from 10 years ago,” mainly because it shipped with the very lightweight and less resource-hungry LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) as default user interface a.k.a desktop environment and corresponding apps.

It never was a bloated operating system and will never be, but since 32-bit computers are going away and are very hard to find these days, the development team decided that it’s time to shift the main target of Lubuntu from old PCs to modern, yet functional and modular GNU/Linux distribution that won’t stand in your way.

“We decided that going forward, we need to adapt for the cur… (read more)

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