Zorin OS 12 Lite Edition Released as the Biggest Leap Forward for the Distro Yet | Linux Today

Zorin OS 12 Lite Edition Released as the Biggest Leap Forward for the Distro Yet

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Marius Nestor
Jul 4, 2017

Based on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system and powered by the Linux 4.8 HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), Zorin OS 12 Lite introduces support for more hardware components, an extra layer of performance improvements, the latest security enhancements, and an updated user experience with up-to-date applications and a refreshed design. The biggest visual change of the Zorin OS 12 Lite edition is the new desktop environment, which is a highly customized variant of the popular and lightweight Xfce desktop. For Zorin OS 12 Lite, the development team decided to replace LXDE with Xfce to offer users a more customizable, intuitive, versatile, beautiful, and extensible interface than ever before.

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Marius Nestor

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