Released on 21 April, 2022, this new long term support version (LTS) of Lubuntu is the eighth one with the LXQt desktop, and the 25th overall release, depending on how you count them. Read our Lubuntu 22.04 Review. The development cycle of three standard releases since the last Lubuntu LTS, leading up to this LTS version, have seen very few changes. It … Read more
Many people don’t like the idea of trusting a third-party VPN provider to keep their online activity private, and instead rely on the open source Tor anonymity network. And no one does Tor better than Tails. If you’re new to Tails, the distro boots to a welcome tool that you can use to tweak some … Read more
Nobody who’s ever lost data will argue about the usefulness of a backup, and anyone who’s ever kept one will know the importance of good backup software. Your distro probably ships with one, and it does a good job of retaining copies of your important files. But if you need more protection for your data … Read more
We don’t give openSUSE the attention it deserves, but that’s partly because of the project’s off-canter release cycle. SUSE’s enterprise edition and the community-supported openSUSE are now being developed in tandem from the ground up. The openSUSE project maintains two main branches of the distro. In 2014, the developers split off a stabilised instance of … Read more
As part of our ongoing look at Linux distributions that come from outside the Ubuntu and Debian empire, we are going to head over to the “other side of the tracks” so to speak. In the Linux world, the genealogy chart is dominated by two major distribution families. The Debian family is familiar to Ubuntu users, as Ubuntu and its derivatives are based … Read more
The new Kubuntu long term support release, 22.04 LTS, arrived on 21 April, 2022, and brought almost no surprises for Kubuntu fans. Kubuntu 22.04 LTS completes this development cycle of three “standard” releases which started with Kubuntu 21.04 in April, 2021. This release is the 35th version of Kubuntu and the 14th one with the Plasma 5 desktop. This … Read more
Ubuntu Unity 21.10 is the fourth release of this relatively new Ubuntu flavor which uses the Unity interface. Out on 14 October, 2021, this is the final “standard” release of three, leading to the next long term support (LTS) version which is due out on 21 April, 2022. Up until this release, each new Ubuntu … Read more
Hello again, loyal readers! I’m sorry to have missed a couple of months, but a major system crash and a bout of pneumonia will sometimes do that to you. This month, we’re going to take a look back at Chrubuntu, including a look at the KDE interface from back in the day. It has been … Read more
Deepin offers a visually stunning OS with a few unique quirks. By Bruce Byfield Deepin [1] is a distribution developed in Wuhan, China by Deepin Technology. Its homepage proclaims it “the top Linux distribution from China,” although similar claims are sometimes made for Ubuntu Kylin. Deepin has a longstanding reputation for attention to visual detail … Read more
Chances are, being a TNR reader you’ll have already heard of Pop!_OS. This is an open source distro for STEM and creative users, created by System 76. Until now, Pop!_OS has been locked to x86 CPU platforms. However, a new version, powered by the latest Ubuntu 21.10 “Impish Indri” 64-bit release and geared towards the Raspberry Pi’s … Read more
[wpsm_toplist] Fedora and Ubuntu are both highly regarded distros, but have different approaches in a number of areas. If you were to believe the first few Google results comparing them, you’d conclude that Ubuntu is more suited to beginners, that Fedora features new technology first, and that both have large companies backing them. But these … Read more
Review bot-at-large Jonni Bidwell does his damnedest to look past the late 90s-stylings of this project’s website… Read our Robolinux 11 Review. [wpsm_toplist] IN BRIEF A nothing if not interesting effort to ease the transition from Windows to Linux. For a fee, you can transfer your existing Windows install to a VM, or set up … Read more