In the beginning of 2016, the Xubuntu team began the process to transition the project to become council run rather than having a single project leader. Despite this, the project members indicated that Xubuntu 12.04 would go ahead as scheduled. In March 2012 Charlie Kravetz, a former Xubuntu project leader, formally resigned from the project. As of late March 2010, discussions regarding the future of Xubuntu's governance and the role a council might play in it were still ongoing. Lionel Le Folgoc was confirmed by the Xubuntu community as the new project leader on 10 January 2010 and requested the formation of an official Xubuntu council. Somerville stepped down as the project leader and made a call for nominations to help find a successor. 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. In February 2009 Mark Shuttleworth agreed that an official LXDE version of Ubuntu, Lubuntu, would be developed.

This document was approved by the Ubuntu Community Council in 2008. Somerville developed a comprehensive strategy for the Xubuntu project named the Xubuntu Strategy Document. The first official Xubuntu release, led by Jani Monoses, appeared on 1 June 2006, as part of the Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake line, which also included Kubuntu and Edubuntu.Ĭody A.W. Instead the Xubuntu name was used for the xubuntu-desktop metapackage available through the Synaptic Package Manager which installed the Xfce desktop. Xubuntu was originally intended to be released at the same time as Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger, 13 October 2005, but the work was not complete by that date.

Rather than explicitly targeting low-powered machines, it attempts to provide 'extra responsiveness and speed' on existing hardware. Xubuntu is intended for both new and experienced Linux users. Xubuntu seeks to provide 'a light, stable and configurable desktop environment with conservative workflows' using Xfce components. 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 ( / z ʊ ˈ b ʊ n t uː/) is a Canonical Ltd.–recognized, community-maintained derivative of the Ubuntu operating system. 22.10 / 20 October 2022 3 months ago ( )ĪPT ( Software Updater, Ubuntu Software Center)

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