Ubuntu MATE 1. 7. Fast Forward to the Past. Linux notes from Dark. Duck has recently published reviews of two of the most popular flavours of the Ubuntu 1.

Lubuntu and Kubuntu got most of the orders from Buy. Linux. CDs. co. uksite, on par with Ubuntu 1. Another flavour with a popular demand is Ubuntu MATE.

And again, I used the opportunity to write a review of Ubuntu MATE 1. Live using the customer disk before posting it. You can download Ubuntu MATE from the official web site https: //ubuntu- mate. Both torrent and direct downloads from many mirrors are supported. The ISO image of Ubuntu MATE 1. GB in size. I burnt it onto the DVD- R disk. The disk is in the drive of my Dell Inspirion 1.

Choose to boot from DVD. Fasten your seatbelts! You don't have any questions at all, apart from a choice between the Live run and Install. The build up for that initial screen was rather long. My choice was for the Live run, and soon after that I landed onto the default desktop. Only two icons are on the desktop: Install Ubuntu MATE 1. Home folder. You can find two panels at the top and at the bottom parts of the screen.

On the left of the bottom panel there is a . The right part is taken by the bin icon and a switch between 4 virtual desktops. The rest of the bottom panel is a taskbar with current applications. The top panel contains the GNOME 2 / MATE standard set of menu items: Applications, Places and System, each with its own drop- down. There is also a quick shortcut to the Firefox browser. The right part of the top panel contains the notification area. Bluetooth, Network, Volume, Battery indicators are there along with clocks, Switch Off button and the Keyboard icon.

I am not sure about the use of the latter, except for the ability to hang my system for few (dozen) seconds. There is no menu search facility in this version of Linux operating system. The freshly booted Ubuntu MATE 1. Live took a staggering 1. GB of memory. That's an anti- record! Of course, those two tests ran on a different laptop with 4 GB of RAM whereas now I have a laptop with 8 GB of RAM.

But my gosh! 1. 1 GB just to boot is way- way- way too much. My laptop has an Intel 3. Wi. Fi card. Intel has very good relationships with the Linux world. Update Smart Notebook 10 To 11 Mm. It means that there are no issues with the drivers. I was able to connect to my home wireless network in a matter of seconds just by selecting the network and typing in the password.

I was able to navigate to my shared network drive. The drive mounted like this was accessible in Libre. Office for file saving.

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A KDE based release is here today. Welcome aboard Ultimate Edition 5.5. A new app is coming your way a bonus: I write software to help me, as a I write it, helps others. Linux Lite is a, well, light Linux distro. Prided as “simple, fast, and free,” Linux Lite has really low memory requirements. Based on Ubuntu LTS, Linux Lite is. It is one of the distribution systems of.

It means what it means: you have no issues with playback of the majority of multimedia files. You. Tube videos also played well. Other Internet tools include Hex. Chat, Thunderbird Mail and Transmission torrent client. Graphics tools in Ubuntu MATE 1.

Eye of MATE image viewer, Libre. Office Draw, Shotwell image library, Simple. Scan and MATE Colour Selection. Libre. Office 5. 3. Office tools in this operating system.

There are Draw and Math components in addition to . Brasero is the disk burning utility. There is also a Cheese webcam management utility.

Of course, there are various accessories and small utilities: Calculator, Search tool, Terminal, Disk usage analytics and so on. If you want to add or remove applications, the Software Boutique is the name of the software management tool in MATE. It is available in the System - Administration part of the top panel menu. I tried to use it and found some issues. For example, search for . Just to test the installation process, I installed the GNote application, and the installation process was easy and smooth..

Felt relatively solid. Set of default applications was good. Multimedia playback caused no issues.

However, small bugs here and there were quite annoying: frozen screen after the Keyboard icon click, no search in the menu, issues with the search in the default software management tool, issues with keyboard layout setup. And the memory usage is simply frightening. All these are not something you would expect from a newly- released distribution in 2. Back to the future? Fast forward to the past? Video used on the screenshot: https: //www. E5. LYy- Phn. SA.