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Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released
linuxscreenshot writes: Just in time for the holidays, it's a new release of elementary OS. Freya 0.3.2 is a minor release, mostly focused around solving some issues folks have had with UEFI & SecureBoot, but we've also managed to sneak in some internationalization updates and a couple new features. Screenshots are available.
elementary OS with the dark theme is probably the most aesthetically beautiful operating system I have ever seen.
This is the OS I'm going to dump Windows for. Great job elementary LLC! Keep it up.
It's a fucking Linux distro, not a distinct operating system. Nothing wrong with posting articles about distro releases (Mint had one recently) but it's pretentious to think it's anything but a nicely-wrapped Linux distribution that I'd imagine still guilt-trips the user if they try to download an ISO without paying for it.
Since I couldn't find it on their site (I had to head over to Wikipedia to find out) I figured I should post it here:
Elementary is a Linux distribution (Its based on Ubuntu). I was looking around for an FAQ, or their source code, or the license, what ABIs it supports (aka what runs on it) and couldn't find anything on their site other than stuff about how to make good UIs. I think they suck at their main goal.
ProTip: that icon in the top left of your pages: I had no idea it was a link. The web has standard styles for links, use them! Also, have an about page that says what the project is and why it exists. Your developer page should mention its Linux based, and some info about porting stuff to it, how you manage packages, what licences you like to use, and link to some source, it appears to do none of those things.
So far I believe Elementary is all about making UIs where I can't tell whats a link, does not fit on my 1440 pixels of vertical space without pages of scrolling, and does not give me any of the things I want. Is there anything good about it, or is it just the Windows 8 style take on linux: new UI because shiny is shiny?
I only looked into it because I'm interested in OS design. I was wondering it it was a microkernel or not, what licence its under, what security models it has etc. Instead I get a nearly useless pretty looking web site and another Ubuntu mod claiming to be the future. Not interested. It would be nice of the summery made it clear what this linux distro claiming to an OS was, especially since the site is trying to hide it.
trying to run it under Virtual Box.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
It seems like another lightweight Ubuntu variant. Doesn't Xubuntu have that area covered adequately? I mean, if people have fun doing this, good for them, but from the point of view of Ubuntu distributions, it just seems a bit redundant.
It depends if Ubuntu includes it.
Except for the root distributions like RedHat, SUSE, and Debian, the rest are just different glosses and colors of lipstick.
"Elementary, My Dear Watson!"
Uhh, you missed Slackware, which blah blah blah
He said like Red Hat, SUSE & Debian. That means that these three are examples, not the canonical list.
Seems like you don't know much about reading comprehension at all.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
That almost sounded like that old Apple ad...
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The nerds. The malfaisants. The socially inept. The pedophiles and terrorist sympathizers. The ones who see things differently."
Circumcision is child abuse.
Uhh, you missed Slackware, which blah blah blah
He said like Red Hat, SUSE & Debian. That means that these three are examples, not the canonical list.
Seems like you don't know much about reading comprehension at all.
Spoken as a dedicated Nazi supporter of Systemd no doubt. ALL hail the new and mighty conqueror of common sense and sysv. Rather difficult putting the boots to Patrick though he seems to be able to keep Slackware very mean, lean, reliable, smokin' fast and rock solid security wise without the sysd Nazi's telling him how to set up a distro. I still love being able to tweek my os and you guys are dumbing down linux just so it can become mainstream. Give Patrick credit his creation has been around since the one series of kernels and Slackware is still used by a butt tonne of admins who don' t want to pay RedHat Suse or Oracle and know how to set up a real server. Different tools for different jobs. Ubuntu and all the derivatives are for newbees who can't even edit simple config files and that is just fine.
This message was not sent from an iPhone because Peter Sellers really was a deviated prevert without a dime for the call
Is it just me or are those screenshots incredibly close to GNOME with some new design slapped on top?
Spoken as a dedicated Nazi supporter of Systemd no doubt.
WOW! Talk about leaping to wholly unwarranted conclusions on zero fucking evidence!!!
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Not sure why people are so reluctant to simply answer the question.
Practically all Linux distros include system. Only a few small, obscure, distros do not include systemd.
Sorry, I don't particularly think elementaryOS is beautiful. It basically is just a knock-off of OS X's aesthetics. Midori is not a bad browser, but it doesn't have the same power as Chromium or Firefox; the creators only included it as the default because its UI is the same as Safari's. Same for its music player, control panel, and file manager. Plus there's a lot of annoyances abound in this distro, such as no preinstalled office suite (from what I can tell).
Basically, it might be a good OS for the specific niche goal of needing Linux to wear the flesh of OS X, but beyond that, it's nothing special.
Anyone fool enough to stick with Elementary will soon realize it's biggest drawback: you're locked out of everything. Want to hide all windows? Nope, but they suggest switching to another virtual desktop. How moronic. Any other questions on functions solved elegantly in nearly all other distros? "We're working on a fix." Elementary is garbage designed by fools. So don't even worry about the UI, cause you don't have a choice anyway; they choose the aesthetic and that's that.
This flood of discussion about stuff I only have a passing curiosity about means I miss things that are actually really cool. Why am I just now learning about Alpine?!
Alpine looks like exactly what I've wanted dozens of times over the years and my favorite minimal hardened distros all seemed to disappear so I've been falling back to minimal RHEL/CentOS systems when I could have been using something designed to be secure and minimal, like I want, for five years!
Thanks other AC for mentioning it. Better late than never for me.
No they don't. They're cargo cult programmers.
I see Old Greybeard Sys Admin who can't evolve with the times. The old "Get off my lawn" and "Walked up hill in the snow ... both directions" type. People ranting about this or that changing and how it SUCKS DONKEY BALLS is nothing more than this.
I swore when I was younger (in the 90s) I wouldn't become one of those old fart Greybeards I was making fun of. Now that my beard is greying more each passing day, I still refuse to become irrelevant by grasping to my dying death the very things I grew up with, simply because of an opinion.
I mean, I love OS/2 and REXX. Still to this day, it can do things that other OS simply can't do. But those things are irrelevant because nobody else liked them. I could be irrelevant by staying there. Or Novell, or PDP11/70 or HP3000 or .... each having something I thought was special (but learned to live without or with a lesser version)
My point is, the world changes, adapt and move on. I've worked with Slackware, Debian, Redhat, SuSE, Ubuntu .... and even Gentoo. You know what they all have in common? They are Linux, and I can configure them to get the job done. Some are easier than others to configure, but I can configure them all in the end. A linux admin who says "I only work with ______" is just an Old Greybeard Sys Admin becoming irrelevant and soon to be tossed on the trash heap of history. Just like COBOL programmers. ;)
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
My point is, the world changes, adapt and move on.
Are you sure that you're replying to the correct comments? Maybe OP is who you really want to vent your spleen at?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Spoken like a true systemd shill.
Never mind whether systemd is a good idea, or not. Just launch a series of ad hominem attacks against systemd critic.
Forget logic, just call names.
Can you give me a good reason that the UNIX philosophy, and POSIX, have become bad ideas?
> This is the OS I'm going to dump Windows for.
I hate MS. I am using FreeBSD.
But to dump windows because you like the look of the interface of a Linux distro makes no sense at all.
When I run Windows, it is because Windows runs the apps that FreeBSD won't. Or, in rare cases, because windows works with the hardware that FreeBSD won't.