{"id":439,"date":"2018-10-17T11:17:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/10\/17\/cool-calm-and-collected-linux-format\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T11:17:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:17:33","slug":"cool-calm-and-collected-linux-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/10\/17\/cool-calm-and-collected-linux-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool, calm and collected | Linux Format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk\/computer\/linux-format-magazine-back-issues\/\">Buy it now!<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/futurepublishing\/docs\/lxf240.issuu\" target=\"_blank\">Read a sample<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have GNU\/Linux distributions fallen into a dull routine of refresh and release? It would be easy for a casual user to get the idea that Linux distros aren\u2019t innovating. Indeed, years can pass between major releases for long-standing distros such as Debian and Slackware. As you\u2019d expect, it\u2019s behind the scenes where there\u2019s constant work on improving, securing and bug squashing. <\/p>\n<p>For many users, swan-like stability is key: keep everything on the surface calm and smooth, with frantic development activity well out of sight. There\u2019s no doubt open source distros do offer this, but if you crave new horizons then there\u2019s a continuous swarm of newly developed distros buzzing around the flowering core branches of the distro family tree.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, this issue is a tale of two distro types. On the one hand we have the newly released and refreshed Mint 19: we love it, and you can read the full review and then go give it a whirl. While on the other you have the ever-updated rolling release distros in our Roundup. 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