ExTiX 20.1 Exploring The Deepin Desktop Environment

Now you can boot from RAM and enjoy Spotify & Skype out-of-the-box

ExTiX 20.1 Deepin Desktop Environment — running via VirtualBox on Solus operating system

A few days ago Hyperbola Linux announced that it would drop the Linux kernel and become a BSD — while this is indeed rare, developers exploring alternative default desktop environments for their Linux distributions is pretty common.

The ExTiX Linux distribution used Ubuntu as a base in the last release, with Xfce / LXQt serving as the desktop environment.

Now, with ExTiX 20.1, things have changed a bit. ExTiX now uses the Deepin Desktop Environment since it is now based on Deepin 15.11 (which is still based on Debian, just like Ubuntu).

See deepin.org/en for details on this colorful approach to open source desktop design.

The changelog (http://www.extix.se/?p=631) explains in detail:

• ExTiX 20.1 can be booted from RAM now
• Kernel 5.5.0-rc3-exton has replaced 5.3.0-rc6-exton
• Skype & Spotify come pre-installed and can be accessed from the launcher app
• using Rufus 3.8 it’s possible to create a persistent partition so that you can save changes to the system permanently
• Refracta Snapshot included (makes it possible to create…