The distribution includes the BeeBEEP peer-to-peer (P2P) chat and file sharing application. In addition to these features, BeeFree offers a few other special characteristics. The application menu is arranged to resemble the Windows 7 Start menu. The desktop is themed so that windows have the look of applications running on Ubuntu's Unity desktop. Specifically, BeeFree OS uses Linux Mint as a base and includes Mint administration utilities and the Cinnamon desktop. Opinion poll: Desktop environments that look like other operating systemsīeeFree OS is a Linux distribution which tries to combine characteristics of Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Windows 7.Torrent corner: 4MLinux, NethServer, OpenIndiana, Pardus, PrimTux, SwagArch, SystemRescueCd.Released last week: NethServer 7.4, OpenIndiana 2017.10, 4MLinux 23.0.Tips and tricks: Quick tricks to fix small problems on Linux.News: Canonical joins GNOME Advisory Board, Solus works on software manager and Wayland support, a Tails status report, Slax may be returning to life.We wish you all a fantastic week and happy reading! We are also happy to report the Void project receives this month's DistroWatch donation and we share some of Void's unusual features below. We are pleased to welcome a new security-focused distribution called heads to our database. Then we cover last week's releases and provide a list of the torrents we are seeding. In our Tips and Tricks column this week we share quick fixes for common Linux problems, such as an unresponsive desktop environment and flushing swap space. Plus we cover new security features available to people running Tails and the Slax distribution coming back to life. In our News section we talk about Canonical joining the GNOME Advisory Board and improvements Solus is bringing to the upcoming release of Solus 4. We follow up this review with an Opinion Poll which asks whether imitating other operating systems is a positive approach to making users feel more comfortable. This week we begin with a review of BeeFree OS, a distribution which takes on characteristics of Windows, Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Zorin OS takes on a Windows-like theme, ZevenOS tried to imitate BeOS and Peach OSI is designed to resemble the macOS desktop. One approach distribution creators sometimes use to make new users feel at home is to make their operating system look or behave like another platform. Welcome to this year's 45th issue of DistroWatch Weekly!
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