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TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the now-if-it-came-with-Tails dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Vinzenz Vietzke of TUXEDO Computers announced today that the German electronics manufacturer, which is known for selling laptops and desktop computers that ship pre-loaded with Linux, created their own distro.

The news comes just a week after System76 computer reseller announced Pop!_OS as their own GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and the GNOME desktop environment, and it now looks like TUXEDO Computers follow suit and announce TUXEDO Xubuntu, their own Xubuntu-based distro, which will power all of their computers in the near future.

"We have been working on this project for several months. We have been thinking about the usability of the desktop, have included user feedback in our considerations and made some surveys on desktop usage," says Vinzenz Vietzke. "The result of our research, surveys and countless tests is now that we have chosen Xfce based on Ubuntu."

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/tuxedo-computers-to-develop-own-ubuntu-based-linux-distro-using-xfce-desktop-516821.shtml

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @04:07PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @04:07PM (#535241)

    a custom distro effort is not really aimed at "linux geeks". you think only "linux geeks" use linux? every family member, friend, and customer that i help with computers runs various distros. not a damn one of them is a linux geek. i'm outnumbered 20:1 by non geeks.

    I suspect a custom distro effort of a hardware vendor is to make their offering more attractive to their customers which are largely normal people who are after a little freedom/security but aren't trying to be the next rms/linus. That's why they are bothering to customize a desktop environment, the whole focus on what desktop environment they chose, etc. It's the DE they figured would be easiest to customize/deal with and would run the most efficiently on their hardware.

    I've really been waiting on someone to do something with xfce for a long time. i've often wished i had the time to gain the skill to heavily customize xfce because i think it has a lot of potential for this type of situation. good luck to tuxedo and i hope they have success with this.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:34PM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:34PM (#535439) Journal

    outnumbered 20:1 by non geeks.

    2000 to one. FIFY.

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