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Try elivecd.
http://elivecd.org/

Elive is Debian with Enlightnment E16 and regularly updated E17 builds. It's a live CD so you can test it out before deciding to install. If you install the leading edge Debian Wheezy, e17 is packaged too.

- Release SOMETHING, even if it's incomplete,

Try eLive.

Instead, we continue to have Microsoft ripoffs pushed in our face, while you're lucky to even hear about Elive in your lifetime, let alone get your hands on Elive in a timely fashion (they don't even have a server; it's bit-torrent or nothing!). So it boils down to that there are four - no wait - five things that have any affect at all on which system is the most used: marketing, marketing, marketing, marketing, and last but not least: marketing.

If I had the money and I was *that* bored (and starved for sick amusement), I could launch a massive media campaign combined with legal-industrial blitz to convince all of you that Tom's root/boot floppy was the best/most desirable system to run with the best features. And it would be bundled with every sold machine! The Internet would move back to Usenet and FTP! People would heckle you if you used anything else! What the hell would all of you public people know any different?????

Go Here, I think that enlightment.org is down,but definitely check it out. It's my fav. Linux. Go to EliveCd to get a nice live version that you can install to the hard drive if u like it enough. Then check out this review for some good tips. Enjoy:)

OSX is fantastic for eyecandy...we'll all agree with that. But our *nix systems needn't wait much longer, what with recent xorg developments with GL based desktops, acceleration and such. Moreover, that envelope-pushing windowmanager Enlightenment has come a long long way since the days of the big E splashed on your screen. Head on over here for a looksie. Trust me, you'll like it.

I just tried out the LiveCD for Enlightenment 17 today and that certainly feels like a step forward UI wise. It uses all four corners not that that really bothered me though it makes sense.

More importantly is how 'light' it feels I get so sick of logging onto Windows these days only for my computer to grind for an additional couple of minutes while loads of bloated apps load in the system tray. I mean I've got a dual core AMD, 2GB of Ram and twin Raptor drives and I still wouldn't say Xp feels 'nippy'. Also you get so used to coping with windows little annoyances such as endless tooltip popups that its like turning off a droning fan that your mind has blocked out, suddenly it just seems more peaceful.

Considering its still development code it feels very stable, all in all I'd highly recommend checking it out if you haven't yet.

http://www.elivecd.org/

I'm finding myself increasingly torn between Linux and Windows these days, the techie in me is dying to break free of Windows; however, two things keep me chained to it Games (I know Cedega but its not quite there) but the biggest stumbling block is Visual Studio.

As a developer Visual Studio is the backbone of many a work enviroment and home project and until such day as Microsoft release a Linux version (the same day hell freezes over) or Visual Studio runs fine under WINE (the day before hell freezes over) I'm going to have to keep a Windows partition around. Who knows perhaps VMWare will release the shackles one day though it's a pretty price to pay to cut the ties that bind.

And thats not being anti Microsoft I just think more and more users these days want to be free to use whatever they feel is the best product without being locked into one particular way of doing things. If Vista turns out to be better than whatever Apple and Linux are offering on a particular day then I want to be able to switch.