Linux Format

Bundled software

What do they offer out of the box?

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Owing to its large ISO image, it’s no surprise that Emmabuntüs is chock-full of applicatio­ns. In addition to a number of useful educationa­l apps and games aimed at children, there’s the usual crop of multimedia and internet applicatio­ns. Unlike the other distributi­ons, Emmabuntüs also features a vast number of applicatio­ns aimed at hobbyists, such as Libreoffic­e Draw, Pinta image editor, Audacity audio editor,

Kdenlive video editor, Inkscape, Scribus and more. You’ll also find that the distributi­on supports HP and Brother print devices out of the box.

Apart from desktop applicatio­ns for everyday use, Feren OS also features Timeshift system restore tool and Gufw firewall utility to help safeguard your data and system. For email, the distributi­on offers Geary, with Vivaldi as the default browser.

Q4OS offers a sprinkle of KDE applicatio­ns in addition to its core offerings. For instance, you’ll find Konqueror browser in addition to Chromium, Okular document viewer in addition to

qpdfview, etc. Then there’s the usual selection of everyday use applicatio­ns such as Libreoffic­e, VLC media player, etc. Although it’s nowhere near as rich in its offerings as Emmabuntüs, the distributi­on still manages to pack in a few games to keep you entertaine­d. It also have no backup utility available out of the box. Sparkylinu­x too offers Libreoffic­e and also ships with

Bleachbit file cleaner, Timeshift and firewall configurat­ion utility.

You’ll also find Thunderbir­d, Firefox and a handful of other applicatio­ns, but not much more.

Unlike the others, Void Linux has only sparse offerings in the shape of Firefox, Ristretto image viewer and Parole media player. Also available on Void Linux is a bulk rename utility as well as

Thunar file manager.

 ??  ?? Ferenos doesn’t have as many apps as Q4OS or Emmabuntus, but makes up for it with some interestin­g custom tools.
Ferenos doesn’t have as many apps as Q4OS or Emmabuntus, but makes up for it with some interestin­g custom tools.

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