The 17.10 ‘Artful Aardvark’ Ubuntu release represents a seismic shift in Canonical’s approach to its flagship Linux distribution – and the changes provide plenty to excite new and existing Linux users, too Ubuntu 17.10 ‘Artful Aardvark’ succeeds ‘Zesty Zapus’ and marks not only a new beginning as the alphabet name convention begins to be recycled, … Read more
Xubuntu 21.10 is the 32nd release of this Xfce-based distribution and came out on 14 October, 2021. It is a “standard” release and will be supported for nine months, until July 2022. Read our Xubuntu 21.10 Review. This particular Xubuntu development cycle has been a bit unusual. Normally, the first standard release after the last … Read more
The release of Lubuntu 21.10 on 14 October, 2021, marked the 24th version of Lubuntu and the seventh with the LXQt desktop. Read our Lubuntu 21.10 Review. This is the final “standard” release of Lubuntu for this development cycle, as the next will be Lubuntu 22.04 LTS. That will be a long term support release … Read more
Despite the name, Calculate Linux isn’t focused on complex numbers and calculations. And despite being Gentoo, using it won’t necessarily imply hours of compilations because it uses binary packages. Yet it’s entirely compatible with Gentoo. Its motto “Easy Linux from the source” might be a bit of a stretch, but it brings the power of … Read more
Endless OS is a unique learning-oriented distro that helps users stay productive with their computers even when they’re not online. Version 4.0 introduces a plethora of changes, both in the background and on the desktop. For starters, the developers have dropped building every single package on their own, and instead borrow a majority of them … Read more
4MLinux isn’t unique in what it does, but rather how it does it. The distro will put an old PC back into active duty, and there are quite a few other distros that can do that. However, 4MLinux addresses the issue by breaking down every desktop use-case into four broad categories–Maintenance, Multimedia, Miniserver, Mystery (read: … Read more
Parrot OS offers a more secure desktop with practical tools for both newbies and veteran users that encourage better security habits. By Bruce By field The Parrot OS home page [1] lists four major concerns: security, software freedom, a lightweight system, and cross-platform portability. To these concerns, it also adds a thorough development stack and … Read more
NuTyx is a nifty little independent rolling-release distro that’s taken some of the best ideas from the CRUX distro to create a functional and lightweight desktop for the experienced Linux campaigners. Like most rolling-release distros, NuTyx occasionally issues snapshots that can be used to install the distro, such as the 21.10 release that ships with … Read more
SPECS Ubuntu 21.10 CPU: 2GHz Memory: 2GB HDD: 25GB Build: x86-64, arm64, armhf, ppc64le, s390x SPECS Fedora 35 CPU: 2GHz Memory: 2GB HDD: 20GB Build: amd64 and aarch64 Truth be told, Ubuntu and Fedora, arguably the two leading distros, have very little in common. We apply the fact that both use the Gnome desktop to pit the projects against each other, which only … Read more
[wpsm_toplist] IN BRIEF Zephix is a Debian-based, portable distro that’s designed to be run from a DVD or a USB device. It describes itself as lightweight and modular, in that it ships with just the basics, and prompts users to install any additional programs as modules that can be downloaded and inserted into the distro. … Read more
IN BRIEF A Debian-based distro that came into existence as result of Debian shifting to Systemd. Not only has it spawned a new category of distros, it’s also grown into a mature project that caters to several different use cases – much like its upstream distro. [wpsm_toplist] SPECS CPU: 1GHz Pentium class Memory: 1GB HDD: 10GB Build: Available in both … Read more
[wpsm_toplist] IN BRIEF The Debian-based distro is built on the concept of security by isolation. It ships in the form of two virtual machines; an arrangement that helps it create a secure environment shielded from the nasties on the internet. SPECS CPU: Any CPU with Intel VT-x or AMD-V Memory: 1GB HDD: 10GB Build: Virtual disk images for VirtualBox … Read more