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Voyager Live 16.04 offers a smooth linux adventure : Review

Voyager Live 16.06 is a Xubuntu 16.04 based GNU/Linux distribution and live media with Xfce Desktop environment. Voyager Live 16.06 comes with applications AWN(Avant Window Navigator) - a dock like application and conky - a program that displays useful information on background to improve user experience.

The Linux Insider portal has published a review of Voyager Live 16.04. This review observes that Voyager is a success in providing a novel alternative for Xubuntu, however at down side, it is more aligned towards French language and there are some branding issues. Other than that, Voyager has a good appearance and provide smooth performance.


Voyager Live 16.04 is a Linux distro that could be an ideal choice for everyday computing tasks -- but first it has to step away from its branding with Xubuntu.

The once-per-year release of Voyager Live, which hit servers last month, is an Xubuntu-based distribution showcasing the Xfce 4.12.2 desktop environment. Its features include the Avant Window Navigator, or AWN (a dock-like navigation bar), a limited Conky desktop display of basic system information, and more than 300 photographs and animations that can be used as desktop backgrounds. It will receive three years of security updates.

I reviewed the Voyager-X release last year and found it somewhat lacking. Despite a catchy redesign with customizations of both Xubuntu and Xfce, this latest release continues to suffer from the same basic shortcomings -- mostly branding issues resulting from a lack of attention to details.
Continue reading this review in Linux Insider portal.

VOYAGER Live 16.04 LTS released

The VOYAGER team announced release of Voyager 16.04 LTS, latest stable release of Xubuntu based GNU/Linux distribution with French origin. Voyager is a redesigned version of Xubuntu. The soul aim of Voyager is not to provide a distribution targeting few people, but to provide a highly configurable distribution that can be tweaked to match with anyone's requirements.


Voyager 16.04 LTS comes with a lot of updated packages, which includes:
  • XFCE 4.12 
  • Xfdashboad 0.5.92
  • Kodi Media Center 16.1
  • Mpv Media Player
  • GIMP 2.8.16
  • Pitivi 0.95.1
  • Clementine 1.3.1
  • Transmission
  • Clamav Antivirus 5.20.1
  • Thunderbird 38.7.2
  • Firefox 46
  • Pidgin
  • LibreOffice 5.1
  • Linux Kernel 4.4
For more information, see original release announcement published in voyager website


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