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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   
from the now-if-it-came-with-Tails dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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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• Did not read article... Did not read article... (Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Wednesday July 05 2017, @03:56PM (1 child)

  by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday July 05 2017, @03:56PM (#535234) Journal

  ...but is it a fork or a rebranding: making your own theme with your logo on the desktop?

  Forking it would seem to be kind of silly and a lot of work they probably can't afford when you could have the Ubuntu people to do the work and you just stick in your theme.

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• Re:Did not read article... (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:42PM

  by frojack (1554) on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:42PM (#535442) Journal

  Exactly.
  I bet they even point to Ubuntu repositories and hang their own tiny repository to hold the wall paper.
  This adds nothing.

  It might sell hardware. And hopefully that hardware would be speced to handle linux well
  (which is easy, just avoid AMD and Nvidia GPUs and you are good to go).

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