![]() It offers good multi-tasking options even at low spec machines. Given the distro has a lightweight desktop manager, XFCE and a lightweight file manager, CPU and RAM utilization are on the lower side - 1-5% and 130-140 MB. Overall, it took me 15 minutes - half the time of Ubuntu itself! Commendable! I downloaded the third party codecs and updates as well. Process and questions asked are typical of any Ubuntu distro, mostly centered around language preferred, keyboard language, where I want to install, use entire disk or I would like to partition, my location and time zone, etc. Further, VLC is there and I could play a movie or two and watch youtube videos in Firefox immediately after installation. Else, please include Impress link to the Install additional software list to make life easy for new users.Įlse, the out-of-the-box application list is decent with Java support and Adobe Flash Plugin 11 by default. Please include it in your default application list. Third, a lot of the users who use systems for production purpose, requires LibreOffice Impress in addition to Writer and Calc. Point to note possibly for the next release! It may be really difficult for any new Linux user to use synaptic and here an interface like Ubuntu Software center would have really helped. Second, synaptic is the only way to install/uninstall software. One thing surprised me, there is no separate music player, neither in the multimedia section, nor in the install application list! Is it deliberate, by choice? In essence, definitely it simplifies life by not having to write a command at the terminal, for the newbies!įurther, settings manager gives an unified view of all the setting changes commonly possible and would help new users. From the instant messenger icon, I successfully downloaded and installed Pidgin. Clicking any of the links would take you to the terminal and ask for your password and permission to install the software. Further, to simplify, developers have provided some direct download and install links for utility softwares like wine, torrent, file and folder search, IM, virtualbox, restricted codecs, video editing software, etc. Leafpad is the default notepad application here. Complete LibreOffice suite could have been provided and I had expected LibreOffice 3.6!įor PDF files, PDF viewer is there which is good news. ![]() For office, only LibreOffice Writer and Calc are present, that too of 3.5.4.2 build. In general, I see some very useful applications offered by Linux Lite: GIMP 2.8 for image editing, VLC 2.0.3 for video playback, Firefox 16 for web browsing, Thunderbird 16 email client, mumble voice chat, xchat, etc. I must say, I have used PCManFM in Lubuntu as well, but it never looked nicer than Linux Lite - awesome finishing! Further, Linux Lite has some really good looking wallpapers to offer as well. It booted up nicely to a black Linux Lite desktop. Sound card and other drivers were detected accurately. Like any other Ubuntu distro, it detected my LAN and Wifi settings without any issue. User name is root and no password! I guess the developers could have avoided the requirement of root login at live boot. Live-boot landed me to a user name and password screen - the release announcement came to my rescue. I did a live boot of the 916 MB ISO (32-bit) as well as installed it in my Asus K54C laptop with 2.2 GHz Intel 2nd Gen Ci3 processor and 2 GB DDR3 RAM. But, these are really minor issues, and except a serious Linux enthusiast, it won't matter to any user even if their desktop manager is not the latest one. However, the users can actually add the Ubuntu 12.10 ppa's and download XFCE 4.10 and PCManFM 1.0.1. XFCE is quite flexible and you can make it look like anything you want to - just like Gnome2.Īs you note, the XFCE is not the latest available version, nor the file manager. The distro is targeted towards new Linux users to showcase how simple Linux can be and hence, choosing Windows XP or 7 kind of desktop is understandable. The developers provide Windows XP kind of settings. Their mandate is to provide easy Linux solution to new switchers and they have really an interesting flavor to offer - XFCE 4.8 with PCManFM 0.9.10 and a host of useful applications. It is derived from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and has 5 years of long term support. The latest entrant in the Ubuntu derived distro series, is Linux Lite 1.0.0, with their (possibly) first release. A cross with E17 and you have a Bodhi! And who can forget Linux Mint - right now the God of Linux! For example, you think Unity is buggy, you can either try out gnome fallback or have all the goodness of Ubuntu and lightness of XFCE or LXDE in Xubuntu or Lubuntu. ![]() Advent of Ubuntu actually spurned up quite a few Linux distro releases, giving users plenty of options as well as some very interesting flavors to play with.
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