It isn’t enough just to create a great distribution these days; you also have to create a distribution that can spawn offspring to further that greatness. All the major distributions including Slackware, Red Hat, SUSE, Gentoo, and Debian have reproduced to the point where the children scarcely look like the parent. Now the children have grown up enough to begin procreating new and exciting distributions of their own for every whim and user type.

Ubuntu Linux, based on Debian, is one of those prolific parents that produce new offspring on a regular basis. A few new Ubuntu-based distributions have converted from other distributions to join the ever-growing Ubuntu family. Some of Ubuntu’s offspring have gone on to become multimedia moguls, foreign language speakers, Christians, Muslims, and security experts.

Ubuntu has also produced some nifty new Desktop distributions as well. This article profiles three of those new rising stars in the Ubuntu Desktop fold: Linux Mint, Freespire, and gOS. If you would like to try one, or all, before you commit, the ISO CD image does double duty as a Live CD.

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