Legend
Below are the symbols used to denote different types of notes taken during distribution reviews, aggregated in tables in the following sections.
- ✓ : Good feature(s) planned for implementation in AOSC OS.
- ? : Questionable feature(s), further discussion needed.
- × : Anti-feature(s), flaw(s), and bad decision(s) to not repeat in AOSC OS.
openEuler Community Edition
- Date of Review: 20230729
- Version: 22.03 LTS SP2
Type | Remark |
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✓ | Overriding locales to English (they used en_US.UTF-8) on bare TTY sessions. |
× | No Chinese input support during installation - can't set a Chinese full name. |
× | Bad fontconfig settings, Japanese glyphs displayed on Chinese installer interface. |
× | PolicyKit installed but not enabled by default. |
× | Networking not enabled during installation. |
× | Random files from packages loitered around / . |
? | Cockpit not whitelisted by firewall, not accessible without further configuration. |
RHEL Workstation
- Date of Review: 20230729
- Version: 9.2
Type | Remark |
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✓ | Power profile support available and enabled by default. |
× | Bad fontconfig settings, Japanese glyphs displayed on Chinese installer interface. |
? | Installer sets default language by GeoIP detection. |
Ubuntu
- Date of Review: 20230819
- Version: 23.04
Type | Remark |
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✓ | Functionality to detect keyboard layout by a single key stroke at the installer. |
✓ | Internet connection wizard at the installer. |
✓ | Third-party drivers installation feature at the installer. |
✓ | Hardware driver manager. |
✓ | Installs open-vm-tools after detecting the virtual machine. |
✓ | Input method works out-of-the-box. |
? | Theme selection at the installer. |
? | Installation by rsync. |
? | Skips GRUB menu by default. |
? | Defaults to Wayland. |
? | Pre-installs Remmina (RDP/VNC). |
× | Language selection does not affect live session. |
× | No input method support for full name input. |
× | No valid installation progress indicator (only a "bouncing progress bar"). |
× | Poor Chinese localization "利用最好的开源进行开发." |
× | No option to disable system upgrade during installation (nor was there an option to cancel the update, as with the previous Ubiquity installer). |
× | Ubuntu Desktop Installer takes up a processor core. |
× | Installation log was not output at real-time. |
× | Yet more updates after updating during installation. |
× | Data sharing with Canonical is opt-out. |
× | Serif Chinese font in Ubuntu Software (Dart application)? |
× | Input method switching combination doesn't seem to work (in VMware). |
× | command-not-found defaults to Snap. |
openKylin
Date of Review: 20230819 Version: 1.0
Type | Remark |
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✓ | Built-in "restoration mode" with validation for backups. |
✓ | Built-in backup tool with Ghost (?!) image support. |
✓ | Biometrics support for PolicyKit. |
✓ | Fully featured user's guide with graphical instructions! |
? | Provides an older kernel (6.1 vs 5.15) at Live menu. |
? | Fullscreen installer. |
? | Has an on-screen keyboard enable icon. |
? | A/B partition. |
? | Installation by rsync. |
? | Graphical wizard for installing .deb packages. |
? | Built-in LAN chat. |
? | Teamviewer alternative. |
? | Defaults to Wayland. |
? | Pre-installs an alarm clock and voice recorder. |
× | Defaults to an awful resolution (800x600) while reporting 3840x2400 (VirtualBox). |
× | Two on-screen keyboards pre-installed (and enabled) by default. |
× | No input method support for user name input. |
× | No full name setup. |
× | Installer log/status indication has poor readability. |
× | Bad line-wrap for desktop icons. |
× | Application menu is sometimes unresponsive. |
Solus Budgie
Date of Review: 20230827 Version: 4.4
Type | Remark |
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✓ | Keyboard layout tester integrated in the installer. |
✓ | Provides Steam native runtime. |
? | Opt-in location services to detect timezone and locale defaults. |
? | Option to create multiple users from the installer. |
? | GRUB menu hidden by default. |
× | Language settings does nothing to the installer interface. |
× | No slideshow during installation (the UI looked broken). |
× | Desktop unresponsive to drag and select events. |
× | No highlighting for selected icons (also opens on single click). |
× | No translation for application categories. |
× | Language packs not installed by default for Firefox and Thunderbird. |
× | Searching for "terminal" in the application menu did not show Terminal as a candidate. |
× | System update compulsory when installing a package. |