Explore Linux e17 Enlightenment Ubuntu Desktop Environment

Explore the Linux e17 Enlightenment Desktop shell. e17 installed on Ubuntu 10.04.1 using the packages.enlightenment.org/ubuntu lucid main extras repository.

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Education

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• ubuntu
• ubuntu 10.04.1
• e17
• enlightenment
• linux
• linux distribution
• pclinuxos
• distrowatch

[trat50]

Xetaprime, I took about the same route as you - Yoper, Fedora, Mepis and finally running PClinuxOS for many years. I just left PClinuxOS 6 months ago for Bodhi (enlightenment). Way cool, much quicker & a lot better compared to fighting with the new KDE.

[xetaprime]

@trat50 Cool. Don't know if you've heard about PrimeE17. You can find it at Sourceforge. It's based on Debian. It's missing some bells and whistles but it's been stable as hell. Best to you, Xeta

[trat50]

@xetaprime I'll check it out.

[trentnmiller]

Yeah I've never had viruses in linux either but that has to do with the nut-job ways I like to set it up... That and I'm not sure how to go about installing them anyways as I got enough things to do without installing viruses into my operating systems. Not that I can't get them I just spend all my time feeding my paranoid delusions and it's hard to get a virus without javascript on, or when you have to load a separate OS to add software and you shrink your save file to the size of your OS...

[jokalee]

@ShroedingerWatcher It is true that any OS can get a virus, however, the majority of viruses are written for OSes with the largest market share I.E. Windoze. It's not that Linux is just that superior. It's like trying to sell meatballs at a vegetarian restaurant. Nobody's buying.

[ShroedingerWatcher]

@xetaprime "I dual boot the 'doze'..."

Ha! Hahahahahahaaaaa! You still use Windoze...Ok me calmed down now.

I don't really prefer AbiWord. It was just the newest version of wordyware.

I don't like the dual boot or "grub" loader because it has always buggered my configurations for my newer desktop and older laptop at some point. And lets be honest, its all the same thing.

Then again if the Linux lot start joining the game industry I'd probably get Steam and such running on it again.

[xetaprime]

@ShroedingerWatcher Haven't used Abiword in a while. Why do you prefer it? I dual boot the 'doze' because of Video Editing.

[ShroedingerWatcher]

@xetaprime I wouldn't recommend any Windoze (esp 8)

OpenOffice - Boring word processor (I use AbiWord)

The only difference with Windoze (and again as we both agree is because of money) is gaming.

[xetaprime]

@ShroedingerWatcher If I did get a virus it never caused a re-install and the backups are tested DVDs so there :)

"For re installing Windoze vs Linux - there is no difference but the display." Not at all true. Pay for Windoes, pay for MS Office, pay for Photoshop, pay for Norton, pay for... but yeah, now you can use OpenOffice, Audacity etc. for free on Windows so that's something.... not to mention XP slowing down over time. Can't discuss W8 as I haven't used it for long.

[ShroedingerWatcher]

@xetaprime Hmm. I doubt you never got a "virus". And what happens if your backup fails? Scary.

For re installing Windoze vs Linux - there is no difference but the display...Well OK you still have to pay for a Windoze OS disc (which you and all still paid for before Linux came along your hard drive).