
Recently there has been talk about commercial support options being made available for LibreOffice and we would like to hear your thoughts about that in our Opinion Poll. Then we discuss which distributions have easy access to VeraCrypt encryption software in our Questions and Answers column. Plus we share highlights from the FreeBSD project's Quarterly Status Report and Debian's refreshed install media. In our News section we talk about ReactOS hiring a developer to work on key components of the operating system while the UBports team fixes Wi-Fi issues on the PinePhone. Read on to find out how Linux Lite tries to make users' lives easier.

This week we begin with a look at a lightweight, newcomer-friendly distribution in the Ubuntu family called Linux Lite.

Ubuntu serves as the base for over 50 distributions that re-spin, customize, or otherwise build upon Ubuntu packages.

The Ubuntu distribution has proven to be a popular starting point for developers planning to create their own projects. Welcome to this year's 29th issue of DistroWatch Weekly!
