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from the less-suckage-than-the-last-time-around dept.
Xubuntu is a light-ish spin of Ubuntu Linux. It uses the Xfce desktop environment and is suitable for older machines which would bog down with a heavier DE like Unity or GNOME or KDE.
Curmudgeonly software reviewer Dedoimedo reports:
Giving a high score to Xubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak may look as if it's getting credit only because all other Ubuntu releases this year were horrible, but it is not so. If we exclude the hardware-specific issues with the Realtek drivers--which is a big issue across the entire distro world--and the package manager choice, there weren't any huge, cardinal problems this time. It would seem that Xubuntu is recovering gently. Perhaps it is still too early to tell, but Yak is much, much better than [Xubuntu 16.04 Xenial] Xerus. And it deserves 8/10.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @06:56PM
What was hacked was closed-source software that they used as a front end to their site (and which hadn't been updated).
They took the site offline and the flaws were fixed within a few days.
Their site is also HTTPS-only now.
For the tiny amount of manpower they have, they do a pretty good job.
If there is a reason to avoid Mint, it's that it now doesn't ship with the proprietary stuff that previously made it noteworthy.
It should also be noted specifically that Mint is built from an Ubuntu base.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @07:26PM
Forgetting about the ISO images being replaced by the hackers, aren't we?