Is this linked to Enlightenment? The "e" sure looks familiar.
Nope.
Elementary OS
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Re: Elementary OS
#32Hmm, it looks beautiful and I really don't want to be a detractor, but with the iPad, I don't really see anyone needing a minimalist desktop OS anymore.
My thought is that it makes a good jumping-off point to build a personal programming-focused system, as long as it doesn't include Open Office or any of the other junk that comes on a standard Ubuntu desktop install.
Re: Elementary OS
#33What is the target market for this OS? I can't figure out from their website.
I think the target market is people disillusioned with Ubuntu. I was a long time user of the Elementary GTK theme which probably facilitated this transition. Basically, I don't agree with Ubuntu's new default personality and how it basically forces it down your throat. I feel like with ElementaryOS, you install the packages you need as opposed to having to remove the ones you don't. It's really Ubuntu with a different philosophy
Re: Elementary OS
#34Love the UI on this. I did a light dig through the docs but does it offer networking support? Would love to use this on my currently Windows box to host files.
As it's a linux distro, it supports most everything except Windows- or Mac OS-specific programs. And even those have a chance with various compatibility projects.
Re: Elementary OS
#35the download page seems to be down at the moment.
Re: Elementary OS
#36For everyone wondering: it's based on Ubuntu, with a clean theme and some "homemade" applications. It's minimalist and blazing fast. The music player will come with the next release. It's opinionated. I like it.
Thanks for that, I was missing the About page.
Re: Elementary OS
#37i dont understand why every new distro has to be praised by the owners as the ultimate [lightweight|powerfull|blaaa] distro every user should use. and why every publisher needs to praise a new philosophie in its work.
Especially those who just copy ideas from others or invent a new wheel or just make another linux distro.
and its really the wrong direction if every developer who starts with some more or less usefull linux applications seems to have to create a new distro instead of making just a project to add to an existing distro.
Re: Elementary OS
#38The clean, simpleness is good, but it's looking over the wrong pond for inspiration.
Windows 7 has a great desktop experience, and it's whats keeping me from switching over to Linux. Gnome 3 is really close to it though, if not for the font rendering[1], games[2], and comfortable software I would switch over to Linux. I think Linux can do it if the people who develop software with a GUI only work with their GUI to develop their software. This would force them to be frustrated enough with their application to make it work, or just give up. Either case, it's better than wasting other peoples time.
[1]: While the freetype2-infinality library tries to solve this problem, it's not quite there yet. It's close though
[2]: Wine is a good effort, but it needs to look more like Windows 7, and less like Windows 2000 (lots of the great UX was introduced in 7 in my opinion).
Re: Elementary OS
#39This looks eerily similar to OS X. Everything from the desktop to the icons (safari, dictionary, contacts) and even the design of the website.
Yep, the Safari logo in particular does it for me as they've attempted to make it look ever so slightly different ("Nooo, see this one's green and the compass dial is pointing at a TOTALLY different angle"). Just reminds me of the rather awful OS X-like skins you see for Winamp or basically any skinnable application. Bleh
Yeah, but didn't Apple just copy the Netscape Navigator theme for their Safari icon?
Re: Elementary OS
#40One of the really cool things about this is the readily available links to descriptions of the core applications. Easily the best-designed distro website I've ever seen.
The bad news: branding collisions galore:
The 'e' looks way too much like enlightenment's 'e', and enlightenment already has a project called elementary -- http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/Elementary
The design of the whole bloody thing looks exactly like OS X. The topbar, the notification icons, the dock, the Midori icon (which is weird -- Midori already has a standard claw icon that looks cooler than the compass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28web_browser%29). Hell, they even have a set of "human interface guidelines"! http://www.elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines