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Presenting a nice assortment of lightweight yet fully-functional
Linux distros for all occasions. All of these arefull distros that
do not depend on cloud services; four for x86 and two, count 'em,
two for ARM hardware.
Elementary OS
Elementary OS is a beautiful, fast, lightweight Linux for 32-
and 64-bit x86. It i s built on an Ubuntu core, andElementary's
desktop environment, Pantheon, started out with some stripp ed-down
GNOME 2 elements. But
it is more than an Ubuntu respin or GNOME fork-- a lot of custom
development goes into Elementary OS,including apps and its
development toolkit.
Figure 1: Elementary OS.
A significant aspect of Elementary OS is the inclusion of
accessibility features for hearing, sight, and motor-impaired
users. The state of accessibility technologies in Linux is far
behind where they should be, so it'sen couraging to see a distro
building them into its core system. Elementary OS has a bit of a
Mac-like feelwith a sleek, elegant appearance, subtle highlighting
cues, minimal clicks to get from one place to another,an d lots of
useful su per key shortcuts. I expect that even inexperienced Linux
users could start usingElementary OS and be productive with just a
little bit of poking around.
There is currently $5,755 of cash bounties available for
bug-fixing some applications and base libraries. If you can't code,
puttin g a few bucks in the bounty kitty is a great way to support
Elementary OS.
LXLE
LXLE takes Lubuntu LTS (long-term support), customizes the LXDE
desktop, adds proprietary codecs anddr ivers and a though tful
selection of default applications, and advertises it as a drop-in
replacement for Windows. Me, I think anything is a good replacement
for Windows, including an Etch-a-Sketch. But LXLE(Lubuntu eXtra
Life E xtension) really is an excellent choice for users who want
to swap Linux for Windows.
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Figure 5: Porteus.
You get a choice of five, count 'em, five desktop environments:
KDE4, Razor, LXDE, MATE, or Xfce. Porteusincludes a package
manager, so you can install and remove packages to your heart's
content. In my un-humble opinion it is the best portable Linux.
Fedora ARM
Fedora's ARM port has finally been promoted to primary
architecture status, as of the Fedora 20 release inDecember 2013.
This is a significant step because it now gets equal priority with
the x86 releases, and nopackages are pushed into repositories if
they fail to build. In typical Fedora fashion, ARM support is
broadand pushes into the bleeding edge with support for 64-bit ARM,
all the popular ARM SBCs, and a niceselection of unofficial remixes
for unsupported devices including the Samsung Chromebook. Which I
keepmentioning because it looks like a perfect travel notebook once
you clear the Google gunk off and install agood proper Linux on it.
Visit the Fedora ARM wiki page to learn everything.
Figure 6: Fedora's Unity desktop.
Carla Schroder
Comments
19 Julsimon :
wow your selection sucks...
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