
The latest BunsenLabs release has been named Helium and is based on Debian's Stable branch (Stretch). It was one of those "where were you when." moments. I was a happy CrunchBang user at the time and remember the forum post well. The distro was created by the CrunchBang Linux community after its developer announced in 2015 that he was calling it a day.
Opinion poll: Using FreeBSD in its many formsīunsenLabs Linux is a Debian-based distribution that uses the Openbox window manager. Upcoming releases: Tails 3.8, FreeBSD 11.2. Torrent corner: 4MLinux, Clonezilla, DragonFlyBSD, Enso, OSMC, Peppermint, Porteus Kiosk. Released last week: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10, Porteus Kiosk 4.7.0, Peppermint OS 9. Questions and answers: Counting Ubuntu installs.
News: UBports upgrading to 16.04, OpenBSD disables CPU feature, Fedora announces Fedora CoreOS, Ubuntu Studio has a new handbook, Debian Jessie updated, FreeBSD turns 25. We wish you all a fantastic week and happy reading! Finally, we are pleased to share the releases of the past week and list the torrents we are seeding. In our Question and Answers column we discuss the number of people running Ubuntu and why it is so difficult to count them. In honour of FreeBSD's anniversary, our Opinion Poll asks how many of our readers either use FreeBSD or enjoy products and services based on the venerable operating system. This past week Debian published new installation media for Debian 8 Jessie and FreeBSD turned 25 and we are pleased to celebrate its milestone. We are also happy to provide updates on UBports and its current upgrade to a new base. Plus we discuss a new, container-focused flavour of Fedora called Fedora CoreOS and announce the release of a handbook for Ubuntu Studio, a distribution designed specifically with multimedia production in mind.
We also talk about OpenBSD, a lightweight operating system which is turning off some CPU features to improve security. We begin with a review of BunsenLabs Linux, a Debian-based project which runs the minimal Openbox window manager as its default graphical interface. There are lot of projects which help out with providing a focused environment and we explore some of those operating systems this week. One method is to run systems with a minimal number of features and software packages, focusing on the bare essentials. There are a lot of approaches people take to get the most out of their computers. Welcome to this year's 26th issue of DistroWatch Weekly!