Linux distribution
Emmabuntüs DE 5 1.02
Nate Drake searches frantically for his umlaut key in evaluating this ethical, lightweight and accessible French distro.
IN BRIEF
Emmabuntüs likely contains every software package you’ll ever need, as well as a choice of lightweight desktop environments. The developers have also introduced better accessibility features for the visually impaired.
SPECS
CPU: 2GHz Mem: 1GB HDD: 40GB Builds: i386, AMD64
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his distro’s name isn’t a bastardised homage to Baby Spice but a portmanteau of its origins. The Emmabuntüs Collective is inspired by the Emmaus international solidarity movement, which focuses on combating poverty. Although not officially recognised by the movement, the collective does a great deal of humanitarian work in refurbishing old PCs (complete with this lightweight Linux distro), then donating them to charitable causes in its home country of France as well as Africa.