The Simplicity Linux team announced availability of Simplicity Linux 16.04 Alpha for testing. Simplicity Linux is a lightweight, fully functional GNU/Linux distribution based on Puppy Linux and it's derivatives. This release includes Simplicity Linux Mini edition(formerly Netbook edition), Desktop Edition and X Edition.
By this release, Simplicity Linux makes has decided to changes purpose of X Edition. Earlier it was employed as a testing release for Simplicity Linux. Beginning from this release X Edition will be targeting windows migrants. This release includes a windows XP like appearance and WINE to support windows binaries.
From release announcement:
By this release, Simplicity Linux makes has decided to changes purpose of X Edition. Earlier it was employed as a testing release for Simplicity Linux. Beginning from this release X Edition will be targeting windows migrants. This release includes a windows XP like appearance and WINE to support windows binaries.
From release announcement:
Read complete release announcement in Simplicity Linux blog.As always, these are very rough versions of Simplicity Linux 16.04 and may not behave the way you expect them to. This being said, we’ve been using various versions on our production machine for the last couple of weeks without any problems.Feel free to download any or all of them and play around with them. And don’t forget to let us know what you think in a comment or if you find any bugs while you try them so we can get them patched before the final release.