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Elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" Released

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 12, 2013 @01:58AM from the welcome-to-the-world dept.

First time accepted submitter kazade84 writes "Over the weekend the Elementary team released the stable version of Elementary OS, codenamed "Luna" which is based on Ubuntu 12.04. The new OS features an entirely custom desktop shell called Pantheon which has been developed from scratch using Vala and Gtk+ which allows for fast apps with a small memory footprint. Elementary OS has been years in the making, and the team have documented the process in their latest blog post."

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why by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-12 02:01 · Score: 5, Interesting

I don't understand why everyone is making such a huge fuss about this. Do so many of us really desire an OS X themed window manager?
Re:What's new? by AlreadyStarted · 2013-08-12 02:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

More like someone wanted something different from what was already available, and put their desire into a project that created something new. Good for them. Hacker spirit and all.