Apparently distro is not so much about enjoying art but rather for creating it.
On the graphics side, Mangaka has MComix pre-installed. Where Mangaka really stands apart from a simple re-skinned Ubuntu distro, besides the artwork, is the pre-installed software any hardcore manga/anime fan will find useful, in two areas in particular – graphics and education. The standard background is not manga-related, but of course hardcore fans will have some more on-the-track images to choose from. But what is under the hood is what really matters. The installer itself is a standard-issue Ubuntu installer with probably a bit more purple.Īfter rebooting, the environment itself will not have changed much. The Live environment booted up lighting fast (it literally took three seconds on a Virtual machine) into a visually intensive, albeit simple, MATE desktop session. To test the distro, the most recent release – Mangaka MOU – was installed.
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(It will of course run on any 64 bit architecture.) Mangaka MOU It also comes with Apple and IBM PowerPC 64 bit architecture scripts, so you can run it on a Mac. The latest in the line, MOU, keeps the 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 base and offers the Mate desktop. This is meant for the Desktop PC with plenty of eye-candy.
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KOE is also based on 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 and features a full KDE experience. The DE has been tuned to be best suited for touch screens. NYU is one of the more up-to-date versions, with a 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 base which will be maintained for some years to come featuring the Pantheon desktop we know and love from elementary OS. This runs on a really old base, Ubuntu 10.0 (although LTS is nearing its end of support), and still features a GNOME 2 desktop. This flavour is not recommended for daily use, not even on older hardware, and has only historical significance.ĬHU was not available at the time of writing (it says “recreating” on the website). The software included is very old (Firefox 3 being a good example of that), and the system is most likely insecure.
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Unfortunately 8.10 is no longer supported, and even the system update will not work as the repositories have already been taken offline.
Note: Most probably (and as the name seems to indicate) this was the first Mangaka release. It is based on Ubuntu 8.10 which is quite outdated by any standard. The download is only 700MB, fitting on a CD, and features a lightweight Openbox environment. It is interesting to note that some of these flavours are based on old, outdated systems. These codenames also mean different environments for different needs, or so the website seems to claim. The three-letter codenames are “made from Animesoft-english and AnimeManga-japanese pronunciations:”
They offer six flavours which are codenamed in a unique fashion. According to Animesoft Mangaka is “especially developed for the specific needs of the anime and manga community from Japan and world wide, including by default professional free software for fansubbing, web browsing, multimedia playback and 2D graphical creations as well codecs, java and flash out-of-the-box.” It comes in different flavours, with a common underlying theme: Manga and anime art. Animesoft has thought about manga and anime fans in need of a Linux distribution and created a Linux distro with just the right theme: Mangaka.