 It's that time of year again. It comes twice a year a boon-two release date And I'm gonna take a look at the recently released a boon-two 2010 groovy gorilla I'm gonna take a look at six official flavors of a boon-two 2010 I'm gonna take a look at the flagship ooboon-two as well as coo boon-two zoo boon-two Lou boon-two a boon-two Mate and a boon-two budgie the first thing you need to know about all of these flavors of a boon-two 2010 is That these are not LTS releases These are not what they call long-term support releases. These are interim releases and they're only supported for nine months So if you install a boon-two 2010 in July 2021, it stops receiving support So you have to upgrade to the next version of a boon-two at that point, which would be 2104 next April I don't like doing that myself And I doubt most desktop Linux users like having to upgrade to a new version of their OS every six months So for most desktop Linux users, I strongly suggest just stick with the LTS releases of a boon-two So if you want to run a boon-two, I recommend going and grabbing the latest LTS release, which was a boon-two 2004 now I'm gonna start with the flagship edition of a boon-two because let's talk about Some of the stuff that's installed that will be common on all six flavors of these versions of a boon-two So if I do ctrl-alt-t to bring up a terminal and I think that hotkey will actually work in every Flavor that we discussed today ctrl-alt-t usually brings up a terminal and a boon-two and many other Linux distributions as well That's usually the first one I try and let's talk about the kernel version So if I run a u-name dash R You will see that all of these flavors of groovy gorilla will be running kernel version 5.8 Some of the improvements that come with kernel version 5.8 include airtime q-limits for better Wi-Fi connection quality USB 4 support Thunderbolt 3 protocol that's been added to this version of the kernel We also have Intel gen 11 and gen 12 graphics support. So that's your ice lake and tiger lake There also is some initial support for AMD family 19h Zen 3 and some initial support for power 10 Of course, there were a lot of tool chain upgrades as well You're gonna see things like glibc 2.32 open JDK 11 gcc 10 LLVM 11 all of these are available to you for some things that are gonna be installed out of the box I know many of you guys are Python dev So if I run Python 3 to get a Python prompt, you will see Python is version 3.8.6 Let me type Exit and then the parentheses there to get out of the Python prompt now This will be the first version of Ubuntu that will feature desktop images for the raspberry pi 4 So that's a really big deal also ZFS is no longer in the experimental stage So during the installation process used to you could choose ZFS as your file system But it had a warning stating that that was an experimental feature. They've removed the words Experimental from that now during the installation process. So I guess according to the Ubuntu guys ZFS now is Stable and ready to go for those of you that want to try out the ZFS file system One of the common questions people often ask is how many snaps are pre-installed Especially on the flagship edition of Ubuntu here. So if I just do a snap list They really don't have any snaps installed. So the people that claim that everything is a snap pack That's not the case here They have nothing installed as a snap pack except the snap store is a snap pack Everything else here is just part of snaps being on the system. So it's just core packages So for the flagship edition of Ubuntu, of course, good gnome is the desktop environment This is GNOME 3.38 and if we look at some of the pre-installed applications on Ubuntu 2010 One of the things I really like about Ubuntu has always been that it's not bloated and when I talk about not being bloated I mean it doesn't come with a ton of stuff pre-installed and I did the full installation They actually have a minimal ISO which comes with even less stuff installed But the full install really just gives you the basics, you know some basic utilities such as you have a web browser You have some of the LibreOffice suite. You have Calc draw, Impress, and Writer You have your Thunderbird email client You have a text editor and you have some basic utilities like a terminal and a calculator You have your audio player rhythm box as well, and you know not much else You know it just doesn't install everything in the kitchen sink And I kind of like that because it leaves it up to you guys the user to install the programs that you want to use instead of Being fed, you know a whole slew of applications that you may or may not even use Firefox by the way since I mentioned the browser This is Firefox version 81 if I go to the menu and go to help and to about Firefox Firefox 81.0.2 and let me close that and it's gonna complain about closing multiple tabs LibreOffice is on version 7.0.2 Thunderbird is on version 78.3.2 Now with GNOME being on version 3.38 it does have some improvements to some of the older versions of GNOME I did notice in the application grid You know I can grab an application such as the backup utility here Which is the deja-dupe utility I could grab it and I could move it anywhere. I want to in this application menu So they don't always have to be listed alphabetically. You can rearrange this however you want to now One of the biggest features added with GNOME 3.38 is people have been complaining since the beginning of time with GNOME 3 Used to when you go and click on the little power symbol here to get to your session menu You know if you wanted to reboot your computer, how do you reboot or restart the computer? Well before you had to click power off Here in the power off slash logout menu then click power off and then once you click power off You represented the option of shutting down the computer or restarting the computer now They actually just have restart as part of this menu because before it was completely counter-intuitive How you rebooted your computer because you would think it would just be Somewhere obvious in this menu and before GNOME 3.38 it was not that obvious So if I do a control alt T to bring up a terminal once again And let me zoom in a little bit Let's see if H top is installed on the system. It is not but that is okay. Let me do a pseudo apt update and Just to sync the repositories to make sure we get the latest version of H top just in case You know, it's had a new version in the last day or so And now I'm gonna run a pseudo apt install H top. Let's go ahead and Install this now. This is a process viewer interactive process viewer But it tells us what kind of system resources Ubuntu is running in this virtual machine that I'm running it in I gave this virtual machine two cores of my CPU I gave it four gigs of RAM and I will say GNOME 3.38 at least on Ubuntu It's a little slimmer than what I expected typically GNOME pushes about a gig sometimes 1.1 gigs on a cold boot and here on Ubuntu 797 megs, that's not bad 785 megs now that is pretty slim for GNOME because GNOME has always been one of the heaviest as far as RAM usage and It's been one of my complaints about it, but it looks like they're finally slimming it down I don't know if that's work from the GNOME team or maybe some magic that the folks at Canonical are working to get GNOME a little slimmer Kubuntu 2010 features the new KDE Plasma 5.19.5 and for the Qt tool kit We are on 5.14.2. I go to the menu system Let's just briefly go to our applications and let's check out some of what is installed by default under graphics We have Gwynvue Ocular under internet. We're gonna have some of the same stuff. We saw in the flagship edition of Ubuntu We're gonna have Mozilla Firefox for our web browser Mozilla Thunderbird for our email client We also have an IRC client conversation with a K We have KTorrent, which of course is the BitTorrent client under multi-media Elisa is our music player and I believe that is new because in previous versions of a Kubuntu Cantata was the music player. I don't know why they went away from Cantata I know Cantata is an MPD music client Maybe they were trying to get away from MPD because I don't think Elisa uses the MPD the music player Damon And if I do a control-alt-t, let's see if that brings up a terminal here in Kubuntu it does and let's see if I can zoom in here Of course, this is a different terminal rather than being the GNOME terminal This is KDE's a console with a K and again just to verify We know all of six flavors should be on kernel 5.8 is H top installed. No, it is not Let me do a pseudo apt install H top And let me run an H top and you can see KDE plasma is a bit better on system resources as far as it versus GNOME So GNOME was taking up about 800 megs of RAM and plasma here on Kubuntu 2010 is taking 677 megs of RAM at the moment. I've always found plasma to be pretty fast It's not the lightest weight desktop environment, but it's definitely nowhere near as heavy as things like GNOME Cinnamon Budgie Deepen Zubuntu 2010 looks very much like any other version of Zubuntu. You've probably used in the last decade Xfce is the desktop environment Xfce Never really changes if I go to the menu here and I search for about let's go to about Xfce Because this little utility is really nifty because it really tells us everything we need to know The Xfce desktop environment is still on version 4.14 tells us the window manager is XFWM4 That's the window manager within the Xfce desktop environment. The file manager is lunar, of course That's Xfce's file manager. So let me close out of that if I look through the menu system here for what is installed We have most of the Xfce utilities like the catfish file search and the in-gram archive manager That's for zip and unzip and things like that. We have a calculator. We have a plain text editor mouse pad We have a terminal emulator. That's going to be the Xfce terminal emulator under games We have just a couple of games here mine Sudoku Under graphics not much here the same programs we saw on Ubuntu and Ubuntu although they do have GIMP Pre-installed now GIMP was not installed on either Ubuntu or Ubuntu and I love GIMP and let's see what version of GIMP We are on looks like 2.10. Let's get the exact version. I go to help and to about we are on 2.10.18 GIMP is fantastic It is the program I use to create all my thumbnails and all of my channel artwork for the youtube channel under internet Of course, we're going to have firefox and thunderbird again as well as the transmission bit to our client That's a good gnomes bit to our client, but it's a fantastic bit to our client under multimedia We have the parole media player and we have post audio volume control and xf burn, which is a cd burner under office We have the libre office suite. We also have our document viewer. That's for viewing PDFs And let me control alt t to get a terminal up and once again htop was not installed out of the box I installed it Let's run htop and we are using 522 megs of ram That is the lightest yet as far as system resource usage It's definitely lighter than plasma and it's a lot lighter than the gnomes desktop environment So xfce is great for underpowered machines or older equipment But even if you have a really high end workstation xfce is fantastic because of the speed, you know Some people are just speed freaks. I'm one of those I want my desktop environment to be as light and as fast as possible I will say because this is the third vm now I really wish ubuntu and all its flavors installed htop out of the box There's two programs that I don't think make any sense not to have installed out of the box on ubuntu And they annoy me every time I install ubuntu htop is not installed and everybody kind of uses htop It should just be there. The other one is vm. Everybody uses vm Nobody uses vi but vm is not installed on ubuntu or any of the flavors Now let's take a look at lubebuntu 2010 lubebuntu features the lxcute desktop environment And I will say every time I look at lubebuntu, especially here in the last couple of releases It just looks gorgeous now lxqt lxcute the desktop environment is designed to be Ultra light and fast minimal. So if we go down to the menu system here Let's see what version of lxcute we're using so if I type about we get about lxcute And let's see we are on version 0.15.0 for the lxcute desktop environment If I go to the menu system and just to check out some of what is installed arc is our archive manager feather pad is our plain text editor A pc man fm the cute version of pc man fm is the file manager. I love pc man fm It's the file manager I install on all of my Minimal window manager only installs because pc man fm really doesn't have any Dependencies that it pulls down when you install it also under accessories. We have clipper, which is our clipboard manager lubebuntu you you get the gold star Vim is installed out of the box on lubebuntu. You see this is what I like about the lubebuntu team You know, they understand the plight of the community When we complain about something, you know, they listen because I'm sure You know people had complained to them about vim not being there and they put it there I love it. I mean that just you know, you get a a plus plus lubebuntu team And I'm not even kidding under graphics. We have lx image for image viewer We have screen grab and scan light that's a scanning utility and not too many people have scanners anymore But if you have one it's there for you and under internet firefox again is our web browser But thunderbird is not our email client. They have chosen to go with trojita I don't know if that's really how you pronounce that I've I've always wondered how to pronounce this particular email client, but I'm not sure why anybody would use this thing You know, if you're already going to install mozilla firefox just install mozilla thunder thunder bird Because that's the one everybody's going to install anyway. So just save your users the hassle of having to remove trojita and installing thunderbird Just do it out of the box for them under office You have the libre office suite again and under sound and video k3b is a disk burning utility That's interesting that they include that And vlc is our media player and I guess for audio and video vlc, which is fantastic Also under system tools. Guess what age top This is this is perfect lubebuntu You are just so ahead of the curve compared to the other three flavors I've taken a look at and also you're ahead of the curve on system resource usage using only 426 megs of ram at the moment and this is a full desktop environment. There are several things going on down here in this history So if I closed a lot of these programs, I could probably get that You know down to 350 megs. Maybe even down to under 300 megs possibly Let me close out that terminal and the fifth flavor. I want to take a look at is abuntu mate 2010 abuntu mate Is competing heavily with linux mint and open susa And the fact that all three of those distros are trying to put as much green into their distros as possible So if you're a big fan of the color green, you're going to love the mate desktop environment mate is a fork of the old genome to desktop environment So you have the top and bottom panels But probably most people are going to change that you're going to go down here to the mate control center If you go down to look and feel and go to mate tweak and then go to panel And then you have the familiar layout that's familiar and that it's the old genome to layout But you can change it to the mutiny layout if you wanted to and that should Make mate mimic the unity layout Although it doesn't look like anything's working my global menu and all is not working Of course, this is a vm here and without having a menu system I'm kind of stuck. You know, how am I going to open a program? Well, the good thing about abuntu and all its flavors you always know control alt t to the rescue because that brings up a terminal So let me open the terminal and I believe the control center is actually called mate control center. Yes So let me open that back up and go back to the mate tweak tool go back to the panel And let's try something else if I go to the pantheon laid out Uh, okay now we still don't get any kind of menu system Oh, there we go. We had to click reload Uh, I see and that's probably what I needed to do on the mutiny layout, but I didn't do it Anyway, you can see this is kind of reminiscent of the mac os kind of layout You got the top panel. You got the uh dock at the center at the bottom Anyway, let's go through some of what is installed out of the box on abuntu mate 2010 If I go under accessories, you have a lot of the standard mate utility such as the Archive manager the calculator the font viewer the search tool Plank is the dock down here at the bottom pluma is their plain text editor We also have red shift which adjusts the color Of your monitors that's good, especially as it starts getting dark outside the color temperature of your monitors Change to adjust with that. It's supposed to be better for your eyes Also better for your sleep patterns better for your health under graphics. We have a scanner We have the i of monta image viewer. We have shot will which is the photo manager Let's see what version of shot will we are on because I don't think it was Installed on any of the other versions that we've taken a look at just yet. This is shot will zero dot 30 dot 10 Let me close that out under internet We have firefox as our web browser and we have transmission as the bit to mark client They do not ship with an email client out of the box It's probably not a horrible decision. Most people probably don't use desktop email Anyway, that most people are on web mail. They're using services like gmail If you really need a desktop email client, you can install it yourself. So I don't hate that idea Also under office. We have the library office suite again. We have the actual document viewer again as well That's the pdf viewer under sound and video celluloid. I believe is our video player and if I go to the help information about celluloid This is celluloid zero dot 18 a gtk front end for the mpv MPv is a minimal video player celluloid is just a front end to that video player We also have rhythm box installed for our audio player I do a control alt t again to get that terminal back up and is h top installed Oh, come on blue boon to is really putting you guys to shame come on a boon to mate team You guys got to get h top installed out of the box and don't make me have to install it I bet I'd have to install them too. I bet you guys didn't pre-install them either Let me try it. Veeam. Yeah, Veeam is definitely not installed. Let's run h top. Let's check system resource usage And we are using 728 megs of ram at the moment. That's very similar to what plasma was using That's a bit lighter than what genome was using and because mate is a fork of an older version of genome genome 2 I really would expect mate to be a bit lighter than genome 3 But it's really only about 100 megs of ram lighter as far as the system resources So I got an error there. I'm not going to bother sending that error report And last but certainly not least is the boon to budgie 2010 release Let me move my head out of the way so you guys can see this really nice widget here That's displaying the date and the time I will say based purely on aesthetics if we're just talking strictly looks A boon to budgie is definitely the king of the six flavors. I've taken a look at so far I love the budgie desktop environment and I love a boon to budgie's version of the budgie desktop environment This is such a professionally looking Distribution it looks really clean really polished and I just can't say enough good things about a boon to budgie And they have two different versions of the menu system here depending on which one you click here You have this first one, which is all your apps are just thrown together In a menu in one category or you could click here and they break it down by category So if I go for example under accessories We have a lot of the standard applications. We've already seen many of these are gnom applications because budgie It's not really a fork of gnom3 But it is a gtk based desktop So you do have a lot of gnom applications available to you Although they also have some xfce applications because catfish is the file search utility. That's the file searcher from xfce Let's check what file manager they are using because i'm kind of curious. Are they using? The nautilus file manager gnom's file manager. Are they using something different? And where is the menu system here? Let's see I can get a menu system here. How do I get a menu to appear? There should be a menu here with some about information, but I don't know. Ah, I right click Well, that is weird If I just go up here to this white space here and I right click I get the menu system I wonder why that's the case. I don't know But anyway, the file manager is Nemo 4.6.5. So they're using the Nemo file manager I go back to the Accessories category just quickly plank is the dock here that they are using just like the ubuntu monta team uses plank Ubuntu budgie uses plank as well For a text editor. Let's see what text editor they're using. Is this g edit? I'm assuming it's gnom's. Yeah g edit 3.38 So a lot of the standard gnom applications will be available for us We do have a few games available just small games like mahjong mind su doku Under graphics and really nothing here to speak of under internet Firefox is our web browser and giri is our email client. I think giri is a pretty good choice for an email client It's clean. It looks good. I've used giri in the past. It's not bad So transmission is our bit to our client again. That's another gnom application We have the librae office suite under office. We have a other category, but nothing really here Science again, it's librae office sounding video. We have celluloid as our video player cheese as our webcam And rhythm box is gnom's audio player their music player Now let's put ubuntu budgie to the real test control alt t. Does it bring up a terminal? It does Let's zoom in here because this is really important Let's run h top Ha ubuntu budgie So it looks like of the six flavors of ubuntu. We did today Only lubuntu passes the dt test as far as it had both h top and vium installed out of the box No other version had h top installed and no other version had vium installed either. So let's run h top Let's see what kind of system resources we're using very similar to gnom, which kind of makes sense It's kind of not really kind of a fork of gnom3 And it's using about the same amount of ram 821 megs of the four gigs of ram that I gave this vm Let's close this terminal. So that's it for ubuntu budgie 2010 By the way, that version of the budgie desktop environment was version 10.5.1 If I had to grade these on a scale of one to 10 I would give all of them at least an eight I would give ubuntu budgie a nine because of how good looking that particular distribution is I give lubuntu a 12 because it included h top and vm out of the box Now before I go, I need to thank a few special people I need to thank the producers of the show michael gave corbinian michael devin fran arch 5530 at commie Chuck claudio donnie dylan george gregery kelv devils luce paul scott and willy They are my highest tiered patrons over on patreon without these guys This review of the recently released groovy gorilla It wouldn't have been possible The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen These are all my supporters over on patreon because this channel is supported by you guys the community If you'd like to support my work look for distro tube over on patreon. All right guys peace How can you not install vm out of the box?