Xubuntu & Linux Mint vs Ubuntu
Hello everyone! In my weekly blog, I would like to compare two Ubuntu-based distributions with its parent itself. So this week I will write about Xubuntu and Linux Mint. A small history and why they can be better than Ubuntu itself. Xubuntu Xubuntu was released on 2006 June 1 st by Jani Monoss as part of the Ubuntu 6.06 “Dapper Drake” line, which also included Kubuntu and Edubuntu. “The target audience for Xubuntu is users who are interested in having a modestly lightweight, slim, fast desktop experience while retaining the usability and functionality that is required to provide an easy to use desktop environment”. Xubuntu’s desktop environment, called Xfce was intended to use fewer system resources than the widely spread Ubuntu Gnome Desktop. Xubuntu developers claimed that the minimum RAM for Xubuntu could be run on was 128MB and 256 MB of RAM was strongly recommended at that time. Martyn Honeyford at IBM said that “It uses approximately 25MB less application memory and also...