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A preview of Lubuntu 17.10, streaming a video from local file system |
Lubuntu 17.10 is a regular release of Lubuntu, an official community flavor of Ubuntu featuring lightweight LXDE desktop environment. Comparing to previous releases, Lubuntu 17.10 does not bring much changes on user experience. Under the hood it includes all updated packages and bug fixes from Ubuntu base release.
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Lubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark - Loading operating system - Plymouth splash screen |
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Lubuntu 17.10 LXDE Desktop - First impression |
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Traditional looking, simple application menu inherited from LXDE world |
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The PCManFM (File manager from LXDE ecosystem) |
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LXterminal showing output of screenfetch command. It identifies operating system as Ubuntu, the parent distribution. |
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Despite of being a lightweight distribution, Lubuntu brings Mozilla Firefox as default browser. It is far ahead of other lightweight browsers |
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MPlayer is default video player included in Lubuntu. In previous release, ie, Lubuntu 17.04, it was MPV. |
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Instead of shipping a full featured office suite with operating system, Lubuntu brings a lightweight word processor Abiword. Despite of being lightweight, it is full featured and sufficient enough to perform regular word processing tasks. |
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Gnumeric - A lightweight spread sheet - is another office software included in Lubuntu release. |
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GPicView is standard image viewer in Lubuntu 17.10 |
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mtPaint - A simple drawing program. |
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Audacious Music Player |
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Leafpad text editor running on Lubuntu 17.10 |
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Synaptic package manager |
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Resource usage on idle state. It is much less comparing to other main stream distributions. |
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XPad is a simple sticky notes application. |
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Customizing look & feel |
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Shutdown confirmation. |
GNOME Software is also included in Lubuntu 17.10 as a graphical front end for application management. I did n't capture it's screenshot because it was not loading applications on start. It neither showed any error message :(.
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