Linux OS Distribution Reviews
Last year I’ve bought a new desktop computer and on this one I’ve moved from Ubuntu to Mint as “Home distribution”, but I still have as backup PC an old laptop with Ubuntu, and some days ago I’ve updated it from Xubuntu 12.10 to 13.04, these are my observations about this new release of Ubuntu.
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Time to review Xubuntu, a proud member of the Ubuntu family. And it’s just had a new son born this spring, named Billy Bob Raring Jr. Anyhow, there are two critical aspects to this article. One, Ubuntu’s been offering a fairly bland experience these past two releases, with subpar Nvidia experience and too many bugs. Two, Xubuntu has been on a steady rise ever since Pangolin, and I even added it to my best list at the end of the last year. So let’s see what gives. This time I will be a using a somewhat different approach. Instead of testing on the T61 laptop, which comes with a cheap graphics card and no hardware that requires additional proprietary drivers, I will begin with the HP Pavilion laptop. This machine has both a Broadcom Wireless, as well an Nvidia card. Double jeopardy.
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Below you can watch a quick Xubuntu 13.04 overview:
Also, some of the default applications have received important changes:
For how to use Xfce4 Terminal as a drop-down console, Quake-style, see: How To Use Xfce4 Terminal 0.6.x As A Drop-Down Console (Guake-style)
Other changes included in the latest Thunar available in Xubuntu 13.04:
For other changes which are shared with all the Ubuntu flavors, see: Ubuntu 13.04 Available For Download [Screenshot Tour, Video]
Here are some more Xubuntu 13.04 screenshots:
Download Xubuntu 13.04:
Tip: for improved multi-monitor support, use the Xfce 4.12 PPA.
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Pasi Lallinaho has announced the release of Xubuntu 13.04, a desktop Linux distribution featuring the lightweight Xfce desktop environment: “The Xubuntu team is glad to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 13.04. Xubuntu 13.04 will be supported for 9 months and will need other media such as a….
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The fact is that whilst Unity is a cumbersome beast, Ubuntu itself is really good. The Ubuntu repositories provide an endless list of applications and the hardware support is brilliant. Therefore Xubuntu with the XFCE desktop is a great base for creating the ultimate operating system.
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The Perfect Desktop – Xubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Xubuntu 12.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Xubuntu uses the lightweight XFCE desktop environment.
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Xubuntu 12.10, an official Ubuntu project providing a desktop operating system with Xfce as the distribution’s preferred desktop, has been released: “The Xubuntu team is glad to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 12.10, code-named Quantal Quetzal. Xubuntu 12.10 will be supported for 18 months. New features: Xfce….
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Greybird, the default Xubuntu theme, has got a complete makeover for Xubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, thanks to the great work of Satya and Simon from the Shimmer project.
There were actually two lightwieght distros based on Ubuntu that caught my attention, namely Lubuntu and Xubuntu. Lubuntu is a much newer distro when compared to Xubuntu. To me, Xubuntu felt like a more mature distro with robust userbase. So I finally decided to give it a go.
