Oreon: A Fresh AlmaLinux-Based Distro Designed for Desktop Users
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Diversity in the Linux ecosystem is one of its most wonderful features, leading to a category of distro-hopper users constantly looking for the next challenge in the form of a new Linux distro whose features they can try out and see if they meet their needs.
Just when you thought you’d explored all options, a fresh contender appeared, and we immediately reached out our hands eagerly. Please welcome Oreon Linux.
The Register:
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Oreon Lime is AlmaLinux with a desktop twist
Oreon Lime R2 blends AlmaLinux with a bunch of extra tools and repositories, plus some helpful tweaks for the GNOME desktop. It's sort of akin to an LTS version of Fedora 34.
Amid legions of Debian, Ubuntu, and indeed Arch derivatives, the Oreon Project offers something different: A desktop-focused distro based on AlmaLinux. The result is a slightly odd mixture of older components and some helpful desktop tweaks and adjustments. If you have modern hardware and want the latest software, this isn't for you, but if you want to install and forget for years at a time, without doing much in the way of manual adjustments, it might appeal.
Being based on an enterprise distro inevitably means not having all the latest components, but we feel it's fair to expect that a meta-distro is at least based on the latest version of its upstream. Unfortunately, Oreon isn't. Oreon Lime R1 was released on the first day of this year, followed about six weeks later by R2, followed by updates in March, April, and May.