Ubuntu is not just Ubuntu, but TEN flavors, & 69 versions.
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Ubuntu is not just Ubuntu, but TEN flavors, & 69 versions.
Ubuntu is a term that describes the Ubuntu Family. Canonical has what it calls: "Flavors" of Ubuntu. They "push" their main product only, with its under-developed "Unity" interface.
The other NINE (9) "official flavors" come, ready to run with other interfaces, making ten official versions of Ubuntu:
" Edubuntu — Ubuntu for education
Ubuntu GNOME — Ubuntu with the GNOME desktop environment
Kubuntu — Ubuntu with the K Desktop environment
Ubuntu Kylin — Ubuntu localised for China
Lubuntu — Ubuntu that uses LXDE
Mythbuntu — ... home theatre PC with MythTV
Ubuntu Studio — multimedia editing and creation
Xubuntu — Ubuntu with the XFCE desktop environment
Ubuntu MATE — Ubuntu with the MATE desktop environment"
{http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/flavours}
That url wrongly states:
"Due to space considerations, only a few languages are included on the standard Ubuntu images."
The newest beta version 16.04, tries to avoid strange languages, but it has not yet succeeded.
According to Distrowatch just now, it is wrongly claimed that there are a only total of 68 'living' 'active' distributions based on Linux. (They ignore the existence of Cubuntu, using Cinnamon).
Because any and all of these Ubuntu derived operating systems are reliable, etc - I have found that using EXT4 for the root partition, all of them can be easily and quickly moved to any or all of the available Linux kernels.
Similarly, all Ubuntu-designed apps will run in any of the 69 "living" versions of Ubuntu. They will install, uninstall, update, etc ... without any need to worry bout PPA, CLI, dependents, etc.
Over the decades, I have personally tested hundreds of Ubuntu-based distributions that made a final release. With my newest hardware (terabyte SSD on a Dell XPS-15 notebook, I regularly test these on my multi-booting computer (i7, 16 GB DDR3). Grub-customizer easily works with my ten (10) Linux Partitions, and the two (2) Windows-10 partitions.
Hopefully soon, I'll document here and elsewhere, how to set the above operating systems. No silly CLI needed, except for installing Grub-Customizer for the first time, if needed. All mouse and GUI clicking only.
At one time there was Christubuntu - a flavour for Christians. It is still out there, but as far as I know, it hasn't been updated in a while.
Hi...
Did you mean Ubuntu Christian Edition? Their web site here appears to be current but, yes, the last version released was 12.04. DistroWatch records them as "dormant."
Regards...
Last edited by ardvark71; 03-27-2016 at 08:49 PM.
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I think it's odd that so many "versions" of Ubuntu exist when, really, the majority of them are just Debian with a difference desktop environment. heck, only Ubuntu with Unity adds anything of any note to Debian and if you're not a fan of Unity then that's largely pointless.
Don't get me wrong, Ubuntu is easy to install and use and has some decent versions but it's barely unique.
I think I saw on DistroWatch that Edubuntu is going dormant. I wonder what the point of calling them different "distros" is if you can install the software of any onto any Ubuntu flavor. openSUSE and Fedora's KDE and GNOME editions aren't different distros, for example.
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Originally Posted by wagscat123
I wonder what the point of calling them different "distros" is if you can install the software of any onto any Ubuntu flavor.
This is, in essence, why I've ended up using Debian. If you don't need the driver installer (it didn't work for me) and you don't like Unity (I don't) then I don't see what Ubuntu has over raw Debian.
I'd say the main benefit with Ubuntu "flavors" versus Debian is that they are updated every six months.... Debian's stack is basically frozen in mid-2014. Perhaps I'd choose it in some cases over Ubuntu LTS, especially on my 1999 PowerBook G3.
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