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• mintsystem

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Mint: It is based on Ubuntu LTS, but it is solely meant for use in desktops (not servers or stuff like that). it aims to be ultra user-friendly, specially for new-comers that are used to windows. It comes in 3 editions: with the MATE desktop, with Xfce as desktop, or with the Cinnamon desktop, a desktop environment they developed that aims to be quite similar to windows. It also comes with tools to manage the system easily without having to use terminal commands, like a customizable updates, automatic backups, etc. It is the perfect distro to install to your grannie or auntie. It release a new version whenever it sees it fit, with names of women ending in a (Vanessa, Luisa, Tania). It uses names that begin with the same letter for point releases, and goes to the next letter for the next release (20 Ulyana, 20.1 Ulyssa, 20.2 Uma, 20.3 Una, 21 Vanessa, 21.1 Vera) with 5 years of support each.

• ubuntu.com

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  The official website for the Ubuntu operating system

  

Ubuntu: It is developed by the company Canonical with some community support. It is based on Debian, another famous linux distro. It began as "linux for human beings" as stated by their old motto, but nowdays they are more focused in server and professional stuff. It is a quite user-friendly distro and very popular out there, but it has it's downsides and some parts of the community don't like it for several reasons. By default it uses the GNOME user interface (with some modifications like having the taskbar to the left). If you don't like GNOME, there are Ubuntu flavours that offer Ubuntu with other user interfaces Like KDE Plasma with Kubuntu, or MATE with Ubuntu Mate. Ubuntu pushes a new version every six months (April and October), with names having the year, a dot, and the number of the month (04 for april and 10 for october), with 9 months of support each, except with the April release of every even year (20.04, 22.04, and so on), which is the Long Term Support (LTS) release with 5 years of support. Their versions are named with an animal and an adjective that being with the same name, progressing the alphabet as they go (Bionic Beaver, Cosmic Cuttlefish, Disco Dingo, etc).

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• caja

  34 262 6.9 C

  Caja, the file manager for the MATE desktop (by mate-desktop)

  

MATE: Developed by a worldwide community, MATE (pronounce it as mah-te) emerged when GNOME 3 came out. It introduced the look and feel it now has, but at the cost of throwing away what it was, so part of the community went and decided to take GNOME 2 and continue developing and maintaining it, but keeping alive the spirit of what GNOME 2 used to be. It is quite lightweight and simple (much like XCFE), but with another vibe.

• archweb

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  Arch Linux website code

  

Arch: Developed by a community, Arch is a distro meant for advanced users. The installation is quite technical and involves knowing how to deal with the command line and to install everything you need as almost nothing is installed by default, but that is because Arch is sort of a blank canvas in which you can build your own system, only with the programs you need. Arch does not follow a release cycle, but instead follows the "rolling release" model, in which updates for the individual programs are pushed constantly. That makes arch one of the most bleeding edge distros, pushing updates with the latest versions of programs (at the risk of being the first to face an undiscovered bug, but because Arch is meant for advanced users, they are expected to at least report the issue)

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