Ubuntu 13.04

It’s late April and that means the latest update to Ubuntu, and it’s siblings, is available.Every April and October Canonical, the developers of Ubuntu, put out a new version (hence the version number, 13.04, it’s 2013 and the 4th month).

Personally one of my favorite versions is Lubuntu, the lightweight version. Here’s how they describe it: Lubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu based on the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE), as its default GUI. The goal is to provide a very lightweight distribution, with all the advantages of the Ubuntu world (repositories, support, etc.). Lubuntu is targeted at "normal" PC and laptop users running on low-spec hardware. Such users may not know how to use command line tools, and in most cases they just don't have enough resources for all the bells and whistles of the "full-featured" mainstream distributions.

Everyone should try Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu or Edubuntu. You may find you’ll become a convert.