Lubuntu 11.04 is now available :

What is Lubuntu ?

Lubuntu is an Ubuntu derivated using the LXDE desktop. It's designed to be a lightweight and easy-to-use desktop environment.

Lubuntu is actually not part of the Ubuntu family, and not build with the current Ubuntu infrastructure. This release is considered as a « stable beta », a result that could be a final and stable release if we was included in the Ubuntu family.

Features

Based on the lightweight LXDE desktop environment.

Pcmanfm 0.9.8, a fast and lightweight files manager using gio/gvfs.

Lxdm, a lightweight GTK display manager.

Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome.

... and, of course, based on Ubuntu 11.04

See the complete list of applications on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Applications

Improvements since Lubuntu 10.10

New automatic way to build the ISO (thanks Jonathan Marsden)

Modifications to the applications by default : Switch from aqualung to audacious for the music player. Switch from xarchiver to file-roller for the archives. Switch from cheese to guvcview for using webcams.

New added applications by default : Gucharmap Lxkeymap Various documentations

Lubuntu is now HAL free (thanks Xubuntu dev)

New theme made by Raphael Laguna

Lxrandr (Monitor settings) is able to save the configuration. Check

the .desktop in ~.config/autostart/lxrandr-autostart.desktop

Lxappareance is able to configure the font (antialiasing) and openbox

directly.

You are now able to call directly obconf to configure the number of

workspaces, on workspace applet.

Installer (ubiquity) support installation of Lubuntu and autologin

configuration at install time includes in Ubuntu official repository.

Icons on the desktop are now movable.

Fake transparency is available again.

Lubuntu use now Ubuntu font by default.

New Lubuntu text plymouth theme.

Menus are now correctly translated.

Menus have now an Administration and a Preference sub-menus.

You can now change the layout on a Lubuntu session with lxkeymap

(directly, or launched by lxinput).

Updated installer, with new layout and screenshots.

Fix a critical crash on qemu / kvm (thanks Fedora)

Translations up-to-date with LXDE git.

Up-to-date LXDE and pcmanfm.

Releases notes and known issues

The release notes, with a list of known problems are available on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/ReleaseNotes/NattyNarwhal

Reporting bugs

You can find information on how to report bug on this wiki page : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/ReportingBugs

Thanks

I would like to thanks all people involved in the development of Lubuntu during this past 6 months : LXDE developpers, people helping on IRC, testing and reporting bugs, making documentation and artwork ... It was a pleasure to work with you.

Website : http://lubuntu.net/

Documentation : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu

LXDE website : http://lxde.org/

Announcement:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Announcement/NattyNarwhal