Tuxedo OS 1 is Ubuntu 22.04, modified for the company’s own toolkit, with KDE instead of GNOME, the original Firefox package, and Flatpak instead of Snap.
As we mentioned when we covered the launch of the Tuxedo Pulse G2 laptop, the company has its own rebuild of Ubuntu and a deployment tool called WebFAI. We are now making this custom distribution publicly available as Tuxedo OS 1.
The German Linux PC company Tuxedo Computers may not be a household name. Also, System76 appears to be in the spotlight in the US. registration FOSS is located in Central Europe and is regularly referred to as a sponsor of openSUSE and as a sponsor of many conferences and events.
Tuxedo Computers is following in the footsteps of American vendor System76 in releasing an operating system that is commonly used on other machines. System76 developed its own custom version of Ubuntu and later released it as a standalone distribution, Pop! _OS.
leg The Office of Free and Open Source Software was visibly overwhelmed by Pop! _OS 21.10, which made my test laptop unbootable. However, the next release based on the latest LTS from Ubuntu had a smoother ride.
The virtual desktop for Tuxedo OS is clean, simple… and at 1024 x 768 with the company logo truncated.
Having tried Tuxedo OS in VirtualBox (both versions 6 and 7) and hardware, I have to say that I encountered some jagged edges, as is the case with Pop! _OS 21.10.
Tuxedo OS boot menu strangely truncated on BIOS hardware
One in the boot menu. Most Linux distributions show one of these, as some features may need to be disabled to make it work on some devices. Tuxedo OS boot menu looks like this:
Boot from USB / HDD: TUXEDO OS
Boot from DVD / VM: TUXEDO OS
WebFAI Notebook; Wired LAN and
WebFAI Desktop Installation; W
UEFI Firmware Settings
No text has been deleted. At least in VirtualBox’s default BIOS mode, the menu entries are deleted as shown. More text is displayed when using physical hardware or UEFI booting.
Boot from USB / HDD: TUXEDO OS 1
Boot from DVD / VM: TUXEDO OS 1
WebFAI Notebook; Wired LAN and TUXEDO Hardware needed!
WebFAI Desktop Installation; Wired LAN needed!
UEFI Firmware Settings
Detect EFI bootloaders
Reboot!
Running in UEFI mode gives you a higher resolution screen with more text, making it easier to understand your options.
I doubt this.
One is simple: What is the difference between the first two entries? For this eagle, “USB boot” and “DVD boot” refer to the computer being booting from removable media, and “HDD” or “VM” seem to refer to booting from the internal disk, so I don’t understand why these two are different entries. Naturally, I tried both. The first always fails to start and leaves us behind (initramfs) urgent. The second entry actually boots the VM from the Tuxedo OS installation media.
Worse, in our trusted test, the Thinkpad W520, both entries (initramfs) So I was not able to install any distro on bare metal. For the record, it booted fine on my UEFI machine, but I couldn’t try it because the OS was already installed.
Additionally, on BIOS devices, we find it confusing to present a selection of UEFI firmware settings. does not work. His choice throws an error. error: can't find command 'fwsetup'.
WebFAI is a deployment tool dedicated to Linux. The name is religionyuri aautomated IInstallations. This process requires a special USB key provided by your company or you can create it yourself and a wired network connection. good so far; WebFAI is a separate tool and can also deploy openSUSE, some Ubuntu and Elementary OS, so I don’t understand why the menu entry appears in the Tuxedo OS boot key.
The operating system is installed fine on the virtual machine. On first boot, the installer runs automatically and asks for language and keyboard information, but it’s not yet installed. It then reloads the desktop, displays a warning about installing on non-Tuxedo machines (in slightly broken English), and restarts the installer.
When I install Tuxedo OS 1 on my private suite, I get a “Limited functionality” warning.
After installation, Tuxedo OS works perfectly fine. Ubuntu 22.04.1 with KDE Plasma 5.24.6 instead of GNOME. Snap support in the operating system has been completely removed and Firefox has been installed from the original Debian packages. Flatpak is installed instead, but Flatpak is not preloaded. The start menu contains the Tuxedo suite with two custom apps installed: Tuxedo Control Center and System Monitoring App, and Tuxedo WebFAI Creator. Control Center also works as a panel applet by default, but you can easily turn it off.
Aside from these little extras, Tuxedo OS 1 is very similar to the default Kubuntu install, with custom boot and shutdown screens and backgrounds. Like the first version of System76 we tried, it shouldn’t cause any problems when installed as the only operating system on a fairly recent UEFI computer. Most of the vulnerabilities are cosmetic and well tolerated in version 1.0 of the product.
If you don’t mind the Snap package and prefer a traditional Windows-like desktop over GNOME (both are perfectly reasonable options), Tuxedo OS 1 seems like a solid choice. ®