14.04 RESPINS FEATURE

UberStudent Trisquel UberStudent uses the Xfce Open Library. Another category A typical Ubuntu installation LXDE desktop. The distro is based desktop and includes a is Personal Finances, which has several proprietary bits and on the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release. It wonderfully curated points to the online Mint blobs, mostly to support the latest uses Gnome 3.4.2 and runs in the combination of hosted apps and Personal Financial Manager app hardware – particularly graphics fallback mode to offer the traditional cards. Not surprisingly, the Free desktop experience. online ones. For example, the and also helps you keep costs in Software Foundation has guidelines Trisquel has all the apps that Books menu points to the only check by pointing to websites that define a free distro. There are you’ll find in other distros, such installed app, which is the that let you buy used books, rent a couple of distros that adhere to as Evolution, , Gwibber, FBReader ebook reader. The new ones, and even search for those strict guidelines at the cost Transmission, LibreOffice, Gimp, etc. other entries in the menu are to deals on Air fares. The distro of usability. Trisquel, however, is a The one oddity is the web browser: wonderful exception. Trisquel ships with Abrowser, which various online resources where also has a handful of games and Trisquel is available in several is the unbranded version of the you can find ebooks, such as other general-purpose utilities. editions. The main release is a web browser. The developers 700MB installable CD, which uses have also modified the browser to the Gnome desktop. There’s also fetch add-ons from Trisquel’s own a 500MB mini edition designed for repository instead of Mozilla’s, which older hardware, which uses the houses some non-free add-ons.

Trisquel is one of the very few distros that are endorsed and promoted by the FSF.

You can support UberStudent by making online purchases on select stores from within the distro.

Emmabuntüs The kitchen sink flavour.

Emmabuntüs was designed to ship with make the distro suitable for young users reconditioned computers assembled by who’ll also enjoy the plethora of educational humanitarian organisations from donated apps and games, including the OOo4Kids pieces of hardware, and owes its name to office suite for children. the French Emmaüs charitable movement. However, it’ll fit snugly on any desktop. All about choice The current version of the distro is based The distro also does a nice job of educating on 12.04.4. Since many of the its users about the proprietary components intended users of the distro wouldn’t have before installing them. Emmabuntüs access to the internet, the distro is bundles the proprietary apps but doesn’t overflowing with apps. Emmabuntüs install them by default. The Dock is includes virtually every popular open source one of the highlights of the distro, according Emmabuntüs can easily install proprietary app and also includes all sorts of proprietary to its lead developer Patrick. The distro ships software without a connection to the internet. codecs and apps. No wonder then that it is with three variants of the dock and you can available as a huge 3.3GB ISO image. switch between them from within the distro on Xubuntu 14.04.” Once the new version is In addition to regular desktop apps such itself. The default “Simple” version is out, the previous release will get updates as LibreOffice, Gimp, VLC media player, designed for new users, a “Kids” every six months until April 2017. OpenShot video editor, RecordMyDesktop version is meant for children and a “Full” Xfce desktop and the Cairo-Dock make screencasting app, there are apps for power version for experienced Linux users. the desktop very approachable to a far wider users such as BootRepair and VirtualBox as According to Patrick, the team will userbase than its intended audience – a bit well as Wine, WineTricks and PlayOnLinux. maintain the current version, Emmabuntüs 2, like the way every Ubuntu spinoff in this The distro’s two web browsers, Firefox and for another year with release updates every feature has taken the fantastic features of Chromium, ship with lots of plugins to block three months. “During that year we will Ubuntu to a wider audence than Ubuntu ads and prevent phishing attacks. This helps stabilise Emmabuntüs 3, which will be based could have reached on its own.

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