Tuxedo OS and Tuxedo Control Center: A bit about both
Today, we will address an interesting and recent news related to a new and umpteenth GNU / Linux distribution plus. However, this new free and open operating system called "TuxedoOS" It has the peculiarity of being generated and supported by the well-known German computer sales company called TUXEDO Computers.
And, it's certainly not the first similar company to do something similar. Since similar experiences are already known from System76 with Pop!_OS y Slimbook with Slimbook OS. Both GNU/Linux Distros, also based on Ubuntu. All this, with the aim of achieving the best possible, that their manufactured and sold computers have a version of GNU/Linux that is as optimal and functional as possible on the hardware of their equipment.
And, before starting this post about Distribution "TuxedoOS" and the app Tuxedo Control Center, we recommend exploring the following related contents, at the end of reading it:
Tuxedo OS: Ubuntu 22.04 with KDE Plasma
What is known about Tuxedo OS?
The release is quite recent, however, many of the features of Tuxedo OS o tuxedo os 1, among which it is worth mentioning briefly, the following Top 10:
- It uses Kubuntu as a base, more specifically, Ubuntu (22.04 LTS) and KDE Plasma (5.24.6).
- It does not include support for the Snap package, that is, it does not come with Snap Daemon installed.
- It comes with the Firefox web browser, but available in its DEB version, instead of Snap.
- It includes a modified kernel specially optimized for TUXEDO hardware.
- Your GRUB bootloader integra os-prober to recognize other installed OS.
- It includes a feature called WebFAI which allows you to cleanly restore the OS.
- It uses the well-known Calamares as system installer software.
- A USB drive management program, which is a fork of Etcher.
- It uses PipeWire as the audio server, instead of PulseAudio.
- It includes its own software called Tuxedo Control Center.
More information available here. And for download you can visit the following link.
What is known about Tuxedo Control Center?
It can be considered that the star application of this new Distribution is Tuxedo Control Center.
From this tool we can quote verbatim the following:
“The TUXEDO Control Center (abbreviated: TCC) gives TUXEDO laptop users full control over their hardware, such as CPU cores, fan speed, and more.”
Among many things, this own or native app, includes a dashboard Which offers a overview of current measurement data and the currently selected profile.
More information available here. And for its installation you can visit the following link.
Summary
In short, German company Tuxedo Computers, continues to show us that it continues betting heavily on the use of Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux. For a long time, using Kubuntu as the default operating system, on their computers for sale. Then and until now, creating and improving your proprietary software toolCalled Tuxedo Control Center. And now, with this new release of his own GNU/Linux distribution call "TuxedoOS" based on Ubuntu 22.04 and KDE Plasma.
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