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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."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 05 2017, @04:09PM (3 children)
Yeah, um, no. I distinctly do not want kitchen-sink packages installed on my machine. I most certainly do not want every library under the sun installed on my box just so I can install anything I feel like without having to also install that library. I actively do want any performance impacting binaries/libraries built with only the functionality I need in them. And I absolutely do not want Pottering or anyone like him deciding how my system should be laid out.
If you really just don't get the "you are not the boss of me" mentality of Linux, you should probably be on OSX.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @07:06PM
repo.
The current one has all sorts of crap the average user will never install/use, but meanwhile they keep removing/breaking packages that people *MIGHT* want/need to use (such as old gcc versions, old EABIs for upgrading gentoo installs that are more than a year or two out of date, glibc/g++ versions that have broken API/ABI compared to current versions, etc.)
Meanwhile they have FTL and a bunch of proprietary junk that isn't even necessarily following the latest version in the vanilla repos cluttering things up, but they have time to remove stuff that falls under 'core system utilities' and might actually be needed by someone SOMEWHERE trying to get a gentoo install built up without having to clean up the mess caused by unpacking a stage3 tarball over the top of their old system. Which depending on the arch you are running, might not actually work/be available in the first place, even if gentoo itself will still install/compile/run on top of it.
Following that would be generating rpm or dpkg configurations off the ebuilds so you can install a binary-style linux distro based off gentoo packages with whatever svelte build options you need to trim the fat and pre-requisites from the otherwise fatty binary distro packages.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @07:44PM (1 child)
What do you think they develop systemd on, osx and virtualization. They're not linux users.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @03:39PM
proof, please