Xubuntu

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Xubuntu
Logo from Xubuntu
Xubuntu 04/20.png
Xubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" with Xfce 4.14
developer Canonical Ltd.
License (s) Open Source (including GNU GPL )
First publ. June 23, 2006
Current  version 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" (April 23, 2020)
Kernel monolithic
ancestry GNU / Linux
↳ Debian GNU / Linux
↳ Ubuntu
Architecture (s) official: x86 , AMD64 , ARM
unofficial: ppc , sparc64 , PA-RISC
Languages) multilingual
Others Desktop: Xfce
xubuntu.org

Xubuntu is a Canonical Ltd. published derivative of the Ubuntu operating system and is maintained by a free community. Ubuntu is a free and free Linux distribution that descends from Debian . Xubuntu uses the Xfce - Desktop Environment , which is known for its stability and resource-saving way of working. Ubuntu, on the other hand, uses Gnome as its desktop environment .

The name of the distribution Ubuntu means something like "humanity" in Zulu and denotes an African philosophy . Xubuntu is a case word from Xfce and Ubuntu .

aims

The Xubuntu community is intended to be part of the larger Ubuntu community that supports the ideals of the Ubuntu philosophy. The software should be available free of charge; Software tools should be able to be used by people in their national language and despite all disabilities. The developers state the following principles of their work:

  • Xubuntu should always remain free: There are no extra costs for paid versions. Everyone should be able to work on equal terms.
  • Xubuntu should always exist in many language versions.
  • Xubuntu should remain easy to use.
  • Xubuntu should be continuously developed. A new version should be published every six months and supported for at least nine months.
  • Xubuntu fully embraces the principles of open source software development and wants to encourage people to use, improve and distribute open source software.

Applications

Xubuntu offers its users pre-installed programs. However, the selection of standard programs differs compared to Ubuntu.

Xubuntu also uses the Ubuntu Software Center , through which all programs from the repositories provided by Ubuntu can be installed via a graphical user interface. Canonical tries to give the user an intuitive tool. This means that there is no need to learn any terminal commands.

Versions

Xubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake , the first official Xubuntu version

Xubuntu was first officially released on June 1, 2006 alongside Ubuntu in version 6.06 Dapper Drake . The current version is 19.10, code-named Eoan Ermine , which was released in October 2019. At the moment, version 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver is also officially being updated. "LTS" in this context means Long Term Support : These versions are provided with updates and security-relevant changes for three years instead of the usual nine months.

Xubuntu 04/12 LTS

Xubuntu 04/12 Precise Pangolin

Xubuntu 12.04 was released in April 2012 and is an LTS version that is supported for a total of three years. This is in contrast to the LTS versions of Kubuntu and Ubuntu , which received a five-year support period.

The minimum system requirements are given as 512 MiB RAM and 5 GB free hard disk space.

Xubuntu 10/13

Xubuntu 13:10 Saucy Salamander

Xubuntu 13.10 was released in October 2013 and was supported until July 2014. Due to the size of the installation file of 1 GB, the operating system had to be installed from a USB stick or DVD. For this version, Gnumeric and GIMP have been included as preinstalled programs, and many errors in Catfish and Parole have been eliminated. The Greybird desktop theme has also been relaunched and new background images have been added. In addition, documentation has now also been supplied as part of the distribution.

The same system requirements apply for Xubuntu 13.10 as for version 12.04.

Xubuntu 04/14 LTS

Xubuntu 04/14 LTS Trusty Tahr

Version 14.04, published in April 2014, will be supported and maintained for three years. The innovations include the use of Light Locker as a screen lock and the Whisker Menu as a start menu. On July 25, 2014 an update to version 14.04.1 was released. The second update 14.04.2 was published on February 19, 2015; the Linux kernel was updated from version 3.13 to 3.16. A third update was released on August 6, 2015. The kernel version was again raised to 3.19. A 4th update was released on February 18, 2016. The kernel version was again raised to 4.2 (like 15.10). The fifth and last update of the kernel will take place in August 2016.

Xubuntu 10/14

Xubuntu 10-14 Utopic Unicorn

Utopic Unicorn (English for utopian Unicorn )

Xubuntu 10/15

Xubuntu 10/15 Wily Werewolf

Wily Werewolf (English for insidious werewolf )

Xubuntu 04/16 LTS

Xenial Xerus (English for hospitable bristle croissant )

Xubuntu 10/16

Yakkety Yak (English pun on the word yak , roughly chatter )

Xubuntu 04/17

Zesty Zapus (English for enthusiastic bouncy mouse )

Xubuntu 10/17

Artful Aardvark (English for refined aardvark )

Xubuntu 04/18 LTS

Bionic Beaver ( English for bionic beaver )

Xubuntu 10/18

Cosmic Cuttlefish (English for cosmic squid )

Xubuntu 04/19

Disco Dingo (English)

Xubuntu 10/19

Eoan Ermine (English)

Derivatives

Development history

Xubuntu versions are released at the same time as Ubuntu twice a year. Xubuntu uses the same version numbers and names, which are made up of the release year and month. For example, Xubuntu 6.06 was released in June 2006.

version Code name Release date supports up Kernel XFCE Remarks
Older version; no longer supported: 5.10 Breezy Badger October 13, 2005 April 2007 2.6.12 4.2 xubuntu-desktop can only be installed subsequently as a package for Ubuntu
Older version; no longer supported: 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake June 1, 2006 June 2009 2.6.15 4.4 Beta1 First official version with long term support
Older version; no longer supported: 6.10 Edgy Eft October 26, 2006 April 2008 2.6.17 4.4 Beta2
Older version; no longer supported: 7.04 Feisty Fawn April 19, 2007 October 2008 2.6.20 4.4.0
Older version; no longer supported: 7.10 Gutsy gibbon October 18, 2007 April 2009 2.6.22 4.4.1
Older version; no longer supported: 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron April 24, 2008 April 2011 2.6.24 4.4.2 Long term support
Older version; no longer supported: 8.10 Intrepid Ibex October 30, 2008 April 2010 2.6.27 4.6.0
Older version; no longer supported: April 9 Jaunty Jackalope April 23, 2009 October 2010 2.6.28 4.6.0
Older version; no longer supported: 9.10 Karmic Koala October 29, 2009 April 2011 2.6.31 4.6.1
Older version; no longer supported: 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx April 29, 2010 April 2013 2.6.32 4.6.1 Long term support
Older version; no longer supported: 10.10 Maverick Meerkat October 10, 2010 April 2012 2.6.35 4.6.2
Older version; no longer supported: 04/11 Natty Narwhal April 28, 2011 October 2012 2.6.38 4.8
Older version; no longer supported: 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot October 13, 2011 April 2013 3.0.0 4.8
Older version; no longer supported: 12.04 LTS Precise pangolin April 26, 2012 April 2015 3.2.0 4.8 Long term support
Older version; no longer supported: 12.10 Quantal Quetzal October 18, 2012 April 2014 3.5.0 4.10
Older version; no longer supported: April 13th Raring ringtail April 25, 2013 December 2013 3.8.0 4.10
Older version; no longer supported: 13.10 Saucy salamander 17th October 2013 July 2014 3.11.0 4.10
Older version; no longer supported: 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr 17th April 2014 June 2017 3.13.0 4.10 Long term support
Older version; no longer supported: 14.10 Utopic Unicorn 23 October 2014 July 2015 3.16.0 4.10
Older version; no longer supported: April 15 Vivid Vervet April 23, 2015 December 2015 3.19.0 4.12
Older version; no longer supported: 15.10 Wily Werewolf October 22, 2015 July 2016 4.2 4.12
Older version; no longer supported: 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus April 21, 2016 April 2019 4.4 4.12 Long term support
Older version; no longer supported: 16.10 Yakkety yak October 13, 2016 July 2017 4.8 4.12
Older version; no longer supported: 04/17 Zesty Zapus April 13, 2017 January 2018 4.10 4.12
Older version; no longer supported: 17.10 Artful Aardvark 19th October 2017 July 2018 4.13 4.12
Older version; still supported: 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver April 26, 2018 July 2021 4.15 4.12 Long term support
Older version; no longer supported: 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish October 18, 2018 July 2019 4.18 4.12
Older version; no longer supported: April 19 Disco dingo April 18, 2019 January 2020 5.00 4.12 Support on 32-bit platform will be discontinued
Older version; still supported: 19.10 Eoan Ermine 17th October 2019 July 2020 5.3 4.14
Current version: 04/20 LTS Focal fossa April 23, 2020 April 2023
Legend:
Older version; no longer supported
Older version; still supported
Current version
Current preliminary version
Future version

criticism

Critics of Xubuntu complain that versions from Xubuntu 8.04 onwards have almost the same memory requirements as Ubuntu with Gnome or KDE . In a test carried out by Distrowatch , it was found that Xubuntu 9.04 uses twice as much system memory as Debian 5.0.1 with XFCE and that it used ten times as much memory when the desktop environment was loaded. Distrowatch attributes this to the use of applications from the Gnome desktop environment such as the graphical package manager, the network manager and the power management. It was therefore concluded that the standard selection of packages did not necessarily match a low-memory system. The Linux Magazine came to a similar conclusion and pointed out that Xubuntu something used more memory than Ubuntu, and therefore recommended for older systems the Ubuntu variant Lubuntu with LXDE as desktop environment . The distributors recommend the same system requirements for Xubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The authors of ubuntuusers.de refer to the alternative of installing a stripped-down version of Xubuntu with a minimal installation.

See also

Portal: Free Software  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the subject of Free Software

Web links

Commons : Xubuntu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Xfce - Golem.de. In: www.golem.de. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  2. ↑ South Africa. In: www.shosholoza.de. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  3. ^ The Xubuntu community: About Xubuntu. In: xubuntu.org. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Releases - Xubuntu. Retrieved May 29, 2017 .
  5. ^ The Xubuntu community: Get Xubuntu. In: xubuntu.org. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b Installation / SystemRequirements - Community Help Wiki. In: help.ubuntu.com. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  7. ↑ The Xubuntu community: Xubuntu 13.04 is here! In: xubuntu.org. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  8. ↑ The Xubuntu community: Xubuntu 04/14 Beta 1. In: xubuntu.org. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  9. ↑ The Xubuntu community: Xubuntu 04/14/1 released. In: xubuntu.org. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  10. ↑ The Xubuntu community: Xubuntu 04/14/2 released. In: xubuntu.org. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS released - Pro-Linux. In: Pro-Linux. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Linux distribution Ubuntu 14.04.4 brings corrections and fresh drivers - Heise Open. In: Heise. Retrieved March 31, 2016 .
  13. ↑ pro-linux.de
  14. ↑ pro-linux.de
  15. ↑ pro-linux.de
  16. ↑ Ubuntu 18.04 LTS should be called "Bionic Beaver" - Pro-Linux . In: Pro-Linux . ( pro-linux.de [accessed October 19, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Ubuntu 18.10 is to be called "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Pro-Linux . In: Pro-Linux . ( pro-linux.de [accessed October 19, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Ubuntu 19.04 should be called "Disco Dingo" - Pro-Linux . In: Pro-Linux . ( pro-linux.de [accessed April 19, 2019]).
  19. ↑ FocalFossa / ReleaseSchedule - Ubuntu Wiki. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  20. ↑ a b Xubuntu ›Wiki› ubuntuusers.de. In: wiki.ubuntuusers.de. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  21. ↑ DistroWatch: DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. In: distrowatch.com. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  22. ^ Lubuntu: Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Bee. In: Linux Magazine. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
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