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Arch Linux-based Manjaro 18.1.0 ‘Juhraya’ Now Available With GNOME, KDE, or Xfce (betanews.com) 4
“After six months of development, version 18.1 of Manjaro Linux is now available. Juhraya offers numerous improvements, especially with regard to Office productivity applications and package management. Another significant innovation in Manjaro 18.1 is the integrated support for FlatPak and Snap packages. For this purpose, the graphical package management tool ‘bauh’ (formerly known as ‘fpakman’ ) is now available to users,” says Philip Muller, Manjaro developer.
Why would anyone be excited for a new flavor of Linux? Most Linux users are looking for the most bare-bones experience possible. All this frou-frou BS only adds problems, and Linux users know this very well, as we’re usually the ones repairing other OSes that are built upon frou-frou.
What does Manjaro bring to the market? (Score:3, Interesting)
by TXJD ( 5534458 ) on Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:49PM (#59188134)Honest question… I use ArchLinux on a desktop and as a vm, and quite happy with it (other than the occasional broken dependencies, the price of rolling releases). As I understand Manjaro is based on ArchLinux and they test, skin, etc. however, I’m wondering Manjaro adds any additional IPR or is it more of a packing distribution? Anyone reading this know or use Manjaro that can provide insight?“FreeOffice”??? OH, it is SoftMaker Office, freeware version:
https://www.freeoffice.com/en/ [freeoffice.com]
This is not FOSS, it is a proprietary, restricted, binary blob. If you want to use that, great. It is nice to have choices. But it seems like an odd thing to add to a Linux distro, especially as a primary installation option. It doesn’t even support all the OpenDocument Format files…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… [wikipedia.org]
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