issue108:critique
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- | Looking for a light Ubuntu-based distro that won’t break your hard drive? | + | **Looking for a light Ubuntu-based distro that won’t break your hard drive? |
How many times have your heard that pitch and then discovered that light usually means stripped or sorely lacking in necessary components and codecs? | How many times have your heard that pitch and then discovered that light usually means stripped or sorely lacking in necessary components and codecs? | ||
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And that’s where the similarity ends. Feather was Knoppix/ | And that’s where the similarity ends. Feather was Knoppix/ | ||
- | The website (https:// | + | The website (https:// |
- | As for the simple aspect, LL (what I’ll call Linux Lite from here on) is not only small in size but will be quite happy with minimal-spec systems. With a base requirement of just 700MHz and 512MB RAM, this should work on just about any PC made after 2000 (truthfully, | + | Vous cherchez une distribution légère, basée sur Linux, qui ne cassera pas votre disque dur ? |
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+ | Combien de fois avez-vous entendu ce boniment-là, | ||
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+ | Voici Linux Lite 2.8, qui nous vient de Nouvelle-Zélande. Basée sur Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), elle porte le logo d'une plume qui peut sembler quelque peu familier aux vieux utilisateurs de Linux comme moi... c'est le même que portait Feather Linux, du Royaume-Uni, | ||
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+ | Le site Web (https:// | ||
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+ | **As for the simple aspect, LL (what I’ll call Linux Lite from here on) is not only small in size but will be quite happy with minimal-spec systems. With a base requirement of just 700MHz and 512MB RAM, this should work on just about any PC made after 2000 (truthfully, | ||
Guess my decade-old Dell Core Duo pushing 3GB RAM should fit the bill. | Guess my decade-old Dell Core Duo pushing 3GB RAM should fit the bill. | ||
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Those opting for a full or VM install will be happy to see the usual Ubiquity installer. A few clicks and keystrokes, and you’ll be ready for setup which takes roughly 20 minutes (faster if you use a USB/flash drive instead of a DVD). | Those opting for a full or VM install will be happy to see the usual Ubiquity installer. A few clicks and keystrokes, and you’ll be ready for setup which takes roughly 20 minutes (faster if you use a USB/flash drive instead of a DVD). | ||
- | Cold boots are nothing spectacular at around 20 seconds on my decade-old Dell, but I did find it odd, that’s with a GRUB boot delay of 0. Hmmm, that may take some work. | + | Cold boots are nothing spectacular at around 20 seconds on my decade-old Dell, but I did find it odd, that’s with a GRUB boot delay of 0. Hmmm, that may take some work.** |
- | In keeping with the minimalistic theme, the desktop consists of a bottom taskbar with the usual system parameter icons, and a menu button along with the feather logo on a grayish background. Nicely presented while still being functional. | + | Quant à l' |
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+ | J'ose croire que mon Dell Core Duo, avec 3 Go de RAM et d'une dizaine d' | ||
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+ | Sa gratuité n'est pas en doute, bien entendu, mais quid de sa rapidité ? | ||
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+ | Eh bien, c'est selon. Si vous envisagez d' | ||
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+ | Ceux qui choisissent de faire une installation complète (sur leur ordinateur ou une VM) seront contents de voir l' | ||
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+ | Les démarrages à froid font environ 20 secondes sur mon Dell de 10 ans et n'ont rien de spectaculaire, | ||
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+ | **In keeping with the minimalistic theme, the desktop consists of a bottom taskbar with the usual system parameter icons, and a menu button along with the feather logo on a grayish background. Nicely presented while still being functional. | ||
Ah, but here is where things get interesting. After every boot, at least until you tell it otherwise, you’ll get the “Welcome to Linux Lite” pop-up screen, a rather ingenious way of handling basic system needs. | Ah, but here is where things get interesting. After every boot, at least until you tell it otherwise, you’ll get the “Welcome to Linux Lite” pop-up screen, a rather ingenious way of handling basic system needs. | ||
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Inside this box you’ll find headings for updating and upgrading both the system and software, plus there’s another section for the installation of “Lite” software to include Chrome, Chromium, Tor, Dropbox, Kodi, Skype, Teamviewer and Virtualbox. | Inside this box you’ll find headings for updating and upgrading both the system and software, plus there’s another section for the installation of “Lite” software to include Chrome, Chromium, Tor, Dropbox, Kodi, Skype, Teamviewer and Virtualbox. | ||
- | This makes updating and upgrading a simple one-click affair instead of waiting for the system to dump a 500MB surprise in your lap at some future date. | + | This makes updating and upgrading a simple one-click affair instead of waiting for the system to dump a 500MB surprise in your lap at some future date.** |
- | As for the Lite software programs, this must be partially built in to the system because installation was a whole lot easier than downloading them individually via Synaptic. I’d be exaggerating if it took any more than 5 minutes to download and install all of those programs mentioned above. | + | Se conformant au thème minimaliste, |
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+ | Mais c'est ici que les choses deviennent intéressantes. Après chaque démarrage, jusqu' | ||
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+ | Cela rend les mises à jour/niveau à la portée d'un simple clic, au lieu de devoir attendre que le système vous livre une surprise de 500 Mo à une date indéterminée. | ||
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+ | **As for the Lite software programs, this must be partially built in to the system because installation was a whole lot easier than downloading them individually via Synaptic. I’d be exaggerating if it took any more than 5 minutes to download and install all of those programs mentioned above. | ||
As for software installation, | As for software installation, | ||
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For other programs, there’s the Synaptic Package Manager which, in this case, is renamed “Install/ | For other programs, there’s the Synaptic Package Manager which, in this case, is renamed “Install/ | ||
- | The desktop is utilitarian Xfce all the way. If you’re looking for visual pizazz and gizmos galore, you might prefer another distro. It’s functional while not looking ugly in the process. | + | The desktop is utilitarian Xfce all the way. If you’re looking for visual pizazz and gizmos galore, you might prefer another distro. It’s functional while not looking ugly in the process.** |
- | For such a lightweight package, LL does come with quite a few standard programs such as: | + | Quant aux logiciels Lite, ils doivent être intégrés, au moins en partie, au système parce que l' |
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+ | Bien que la fenêtre elle-même semble simpliste et quelque peu rudimentaire (exprès), c'est efficace et remplit bien son objectif : installer environ 15 à 20 logiciels les plus utilisés ou demandés. | ||
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+ | Le bureau n'est rien d' | ||
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+ | **For such a lightweight package, LL does come with quite a few standard programs such as: | ||
• Firefox (with options to install Chrome and Chromium). | • Firefox (with options to install Chrome and Chromium). | ||
• LibreOffice 5 (I mention the number since other distros I’ve tried have older versions) with Evince as the PDF add-on. | • LibreOffice 5 (I mention the number since other distros I’ve tried have older versions) with Evince as the PDF add-on. | ||
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Not a bad selection for what should be a light, limited distro. | Not a bad selection for what should be a light, limited distro. | ||
- | Even more impressive is that after adding a load of personal program choices plus the built-in offerings, my HDD is down just 7.1GB. | + | Even more impressive is that after adding a load of personal program choices plus the built-in offerings, my HDD is down just 7.1GB.** |
- | Once you get everything loaded to your liking, the system is not only highly functional and stable, it’s quick to perform also. In fact, the only time I experienced a slowdown was when I used Systemback for a complete ISO image (that did hijack my system for roughly 15 minutes), but I expected that. | + | La légèreté du paquet LL n' |
+ | • Firefox (avec la possibilité d' | ||
+ | • LibreOffice 5 (Je donne le numéro de version puisque d' | ||
+ | • Thunderbird pour les courriels. | ||
+ | • GIMP et Image Viewer. | ||
+ | • xfburn pour la production de CD/DVD, Clementine et VLC pour la lecture des fichiers média. | ||
+ | • La sélection standard des accessoires tels qu'une calculatrice et un paquet de captures d' | ||
+ | • Lite Tweaks, un programme qui enlève les déchets de votre système sans que vous ayez à faire confiance à des programmes externes douteux qui peuvent faire plus de mal que de bien. Si vous vous posez la question : non, ce n'est pas apparenté à Ubuntu Tweak. | ||
+ | • Systemback, un programme de sauvegarde unique à un ou deux clics qui peut créer une version live de votre configuration sans que vous ayez à installer quoi que ce soit d' | ||
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+ | Pas mal comme sélection pour ce qui devrait être une distribution légère et limitée. | ||
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+ | Plus impressionnant encore est que, après avoir ajouté une tonne de programmes que je voulais en plus de ceux qui sont intégrés, l' | ||
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+ | **Once you get everything loaded to your liking, the system is not only highly functional and stable, it’s quick to perform also. In fact, the only time I experienced a slowdown was when I used Systemback for a complete ISO image (that did hijack my system for roughly 15 minutes), but I expected that. | ||
That isn’t to state that’s in all hunky-dory here, folks. There was an odd failure to communicate when I went to use the Lite Software package after a couple days of system usage. It developed a tick in the software sources list and gave me an update error based upon the “trusty/ | That isn’t to state that’s in all hunky-dory here, folks. There was an odd failure to communicate when I went to use the Lite Software package after a couple days of system usage. It developed a tick in the software sources list and gave me an update error based upon the “trusty/ | ||
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In the end analysis, it has a small footprint, some great tweaks, and operates better than most in the class. | In the end analysis, it has a small footprint, some great tweaks, and operates better than most in the class. | ||
- | Give it a try and I’m sure you’ll agree. | + | Give it a try and I’m sure you’ll agree.** |
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+ | Une fois que vous avez installé tout ce que vous voulez, le système est non seulement très fonctionnel et stable, mais il est également très rapide. En fait, la seule fois où j'ai constaté un ralentissement était quand j'ai utilisé Systemback pour créer une image ISO complète ; cela a accaparé mon système pendant environ 15 minutes, mais je m'y attendais. | ||
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+ | Je ne veux pas que vous croyiez que tout est pour le mieux dans ce système. Il y avait un échec bizarre dans la communication quand j' | ||
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+ | Il faudrait vraiment un contournement pour cela, bien que la plupart des utilisateurs cliquent sur d' | ||
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+ | Tout compte fait, quelle est mon impression finale de Linux Lite ? Personnellement, | ||
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+ | Oui, il y a quelques bizarreries et vous devez faire quelques ajustements, | ||
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+ | En résumé, il est petit, comporte quelques trucs géniaux et s' | ||
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+ | Essayez-le et je suis certain que vous serez d' |
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