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[Todd Schulman <schulmaandu@xxxxxxxxx>]

For starters, thank you to all who are involved in making lubuntu. It
is a fine OS and deserves much praise. I have been trying to gain an
understanding how lubuntu differentiates itself from lxde. Please
correct me if I am wrong; this is an attempt to learn and gain
clarification and most certainly is not coming from a critical
standpoint. lxde is a desktop environment and has both -core and
-common metapackages in ubuntu and debian, and releases an .iso based
on debian. lubuntu also has both -core and -desktop metapackages in
ubuntu. Is there anything that distinguishes lubuntu from lxde, other
than community, branding and default package selection? If so, what?
Integration? If I want a lightweight, standards-compliant system, am I
better off installing the -core and adding apps I want? In other
words, what is the value-added that lubuntu provides over vanilla
lxde?