Julien Lavergne, lead developer of lubuntu, gave a presentation about the lubuntu project and ways to involve at the FOSSASIA conference in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam. Here are the slides.

1. Lubuntu
A lightweight desktop

2. Table of contents
What is Lubuntu ?
Why Lubuntu ?
Applications installed by default
Applications non not installed by default
New features of Lubuntu 11.10
Plans for 12.04
Conclusion
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3. What is Lubuntu ?
Derivated of Ubuntu, using LXDE as desktop environnement.
Optimized for slow computers and limited hardware
Graphical interfaces
Including support for most if users' needs for a desktop usage.
Works with
128 Mb of RAM
3Gb of disk
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4. What is Lubuntu ?
Less documentation than the original Ubuntu
Small group of developers and small community
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5. Why Lubuntu ?
Offer the possibility to use a derivated of Ubuntu on small systems
and limited hardwares.
Create a derivated using LXDE
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6. Applications by default
LXDE
Chromium, open-source version of Chrome
Abiword / Gnumeric
Openbox
Gnome-Mplayer / Audacious
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7. Screenshots of Lubuntu
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8. Screenshots of Lubuntu
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9. Screenshots of Lubuntu
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10. Screenshots of Lubuntu
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11. Screenshots of Lubuntu
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12. Screenshots of Lubuntu
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13. Applications NOT by default
Unity
Compiz
Libre Office
Pulseaudio
Software-Center
Ubuntu One
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14. New features of Lubuntu 11.10
ISO build like other Ubuntu derivated
Alternate ISO available
New theme
New applicatiosn by default :
xfce4-power-manager
Pidgin-microblog (Twitter support)
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15. Plan for 12.04
No LTS (Long Term Support)
Evaluate a new software-center designed for Lubuntu
Improving the session manager
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16. Conclusion
If you planned to discard an old machine working on XP
If you want to install a light base to customize later
If Ubuntu takes 10 minutes to start, or too solw for you, but you
want to stay in Ubuntu universe
If you have eeePC 701 ...
Try Lubuntu !
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17. Questions ?
gilir@ubuntu.com
Mailing list : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net
Informations : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu
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