34 Facts About Xubuntu

The name Xubuntu is a portmanteau of Xfce and Ubuntu, as it uses the Xfce desktop environment, instead of Ubuntu's Unity and GNOME desktop.

Xubuntu seeks to provide "a light, stable and configurable desktop environment with conservative workflows" using Xfce components.

Xubuntu is intended for both new and experienced Linux users.

Xubuntu was originally intended to be released at the same time as Ubuntu 5.

The LXDE desktop uses the Openbox window manager and, like Xubuntu, is intended to be a low-system-requirement, low-RAM environment for netbooks, mobile devices and older PCs and will compete with Xubuntu in that niche.

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In September 2010, the Xubuntu developers claimed that the minimum RAM Xubuntu could be run on was 128 MB, with 256 MB of RAM strongly recommended at that time.

Later testing showed that Xubuntu was at a disadvantage compared to Debian equipped with the Xfce desktop.

Xubuntu ran out of RAM doing everyday tasks, indicating that 384 MB of RAM was inadequate.

Subsequent reviewers emphasized Xubuntu's perceived deficiencies in performance to highlight Lubuntu, a project with similar goals but using the LXDE desktop environment as opposed to Xfce.

Xubuntu is the newest official Ubuntu derivative distribution, using the Xfce desktop environment and a selection of GTK2 applications.

Xubuntu's singled out its "bare bones approach" to the applications included, indicating that she would rather add applications she wanted than clean out ones she didn't want.

Xubuntu's had praise for the Thunar file manager, as light and fast.

Xubuntu's concluded: "Overall I am impressed and Xubuntu, for the moment anyway, is my favorite Linux distribution despite a few rough edges, probably largely due to the use of a beta desktop".

Developers claimed that this version of Xubuntu could run on 64 MB of RAM, with 128 MB "strongly recommended".

Xubuntu's noted that Xubuntu ran faster than GNOME or KDE, which she described as "sluggish" and rated it as one of the two fastest distributions on her limited test hardware, placing with Vector Linux.

Xubuntu's found the graphical installer to be less than acceptable and the text-based installer better.

Xubuntu indicated though that installing applications from the repositories was easy and made for simple customization of an installation.

Developers claimed that this version of Xubuntu could run on 64 MB of RAM, with 128 MB "strongly recommended".

Xubuntu noted it provided better performance than the Windows XP Pro it replaced.

Xubuntu concluded: "This is where Xubuntu really shines… What it will do is take some very moderate hardware and provide a solid, reliable, and relatively snappy machine for a user with productivity needs or who accesses terminal services".

DistroWatch concluded "Xubuntu is a great distribution, but its default selection of packages does not necessarily suit itself to low-memory systems".

Xubuntu noted that it provided few performance advantages over Ubuntu.

Sneddon points out that from this testing that Xubuntu is barely more "lean" than Ubuntu and concludes "Xubuntu, whilst of interest to those who prefer the XFCE environment, remains an unremarkable spin from the Ubuntu canon that, for most users, is largely irrelevant".

Xubuntu did remark on the inferior Adobe Flash performance compared to the Windows version of Flash, particularly in full screen mode, something common to all Linux Flash installations as well as the lack of native support for Samba networking, although he was quickly able to install this.

Whisker Menu, a new application launcher for Xubuntu, was introduced via a Personal Package Archive for Xubuntu 12.

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Minimum system requirements for this release of Xubuntu are 512 MB of system memory, 5 GB of disk space and a graphics card and monitor capable of at least 800×600 pixels resolution.

The thing that Xubuntu gives you is a great base to start from…The truth is that nothing much really changes with Xubuntu.

All Xubuntu has ever done is offer a solid, dependable, mostly error-free, long-term release every two years.

Xubuntu developers transitioned their code base to GitHub for this release and otherwise there were no changes over Xubuntu 20.

Xubuntu includes the GNOME Software storefront which allows users to download additional applications from the Ubuntu repositories.

Xubuntu versions are released twice a year, coinciding with Ubuntu releases.

Xubuntu uses the same version numbers and code names as Ubuntu, using the year and month of the release as the version number.

Commonly, Xubuntu releases are referred to by developers and users by only the adjective portion of the code name, for example Intrepid Ibex is often called just Intrepid.

Xubuntu has been developed into several new versions by third-party developers:.