Why: Speed and ease of use. I have an old HP Pavilion DV600 computer, with 1GB RAM and 100 MB HD. It's not my primary computer, just something to mess around with. In the past I found Xubuntu to be a good compromise of speed, ease of use and availability of apps. When Elementary OS Luna Beta came out, I tried that and liked the look.
Elementary OS Luna beta 1 is a Linux distribution I previewed just a few days ago. See Elementary OS Luna preview. It is a revamped desktop distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop.
Recently I have found that we can install the elementary environment on ubuntu .
I installed it using
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sudo apt-get install elementary-desktop
some of its packages got installed but some gave me error
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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
elementary-artwork : Depends: elementary-theme but it is
I installed slingshot-launcher_0.0.1~pre-0~48~natty1_i386 and everything works though it is a little slow.
Today I just tried the elementary desktop environment in my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It comes with a Gnome style top panel, main menu on the left and indicators, user menu on the right. At bottom of screen it’s the launcher: Docky.
The main menu is only Applications button which shows items in page. The system tray area looks same to gnome-classic.
Yesterday, I wrote about Mint 14 becoming, Mint Elementary, but the thread had been moved to "December screenshots."
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...2#post12386212
I thought the photos would say more than words, so the screenshots.
I had made SolusOS 2 Alpha, a Debian distro to take in Ubuntu ppas and work with Gala and old Slingshot.
Elementary OS is a fast and beautiful distro that focuses on simplicity and minimalism.
Elementary Dark GTK3 theme has been updated for Ubuntu 12.04 and Gnome 3.4.
Made by Satya, the theme is inspired by default Elementary OS theme but it comes as a darker variant.
Download Elementary Dark GTK3 Theme
To install from PPA, run the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elementary-dark-them
After years of hard work, Cassidy James proudly announced a few minutes ago that the first Beta release of the upcoming elementary OS 0.2 Linux distribution is now available for download and testing.
Personally, I'm so excited about this development release of the elementary OS 0.2 that I don't even know where to start.
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