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[Glassed Silver]

Hey guys!

Luna beta 1 is out.
I guess this is a day many of us have been waiting for for so long!

http://elementaryos....beta-1-released
(Release info & download (32/64bit available))

Grab it now, I got mine already, so spam the server all you want, I don't care.

Glassed Silver:mac

[warwagon]

Well... the icons are cute.

[hckngrtfakt]

I thought it was based off some typical linux distro,
but appears to be a stand alone core OS ...
may give this a try (wish it was a live distro tho )

[Glassed Silver]

hckngrtfakt, on 14 November 2012 - 17:39, said:

I thought it was based off some typical linux distro,
but appears to be a stand alone core OS ...
may give this a try (wish it was a live distro tho )

No, it's a heavily customized Ubuntu.
Definitely not like your regular me-too Ubuntu based distro.

Glassed Silver:mac

[tsupersonic]

Eh, it looks alright. Don't see anything special about it - might as well just use Ubuntu and customize it yourself.

[Darrian]

I'll be loading this up in a VM soon. It looks pretty. I hadn't even heard of it before, so thanks for the heads up.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Definitely going to try this one out! Soon as I get home! Thanks, Glassed!

[hckngrtfakt]

Glassed Silver, on 14 November 2012 - 17:43, said:

No, it's a heavily customized Ubuntu.
Definitely not like your regular me-too Ubuntu based distro.

Glassed Silver:mac

Ah, thanks for clearing that up

Will definitely check it out

(hopefully one day there'll be a BackTrack version) lol

[Nothing Here]

Hmm. Well I gave the new Mint a spin, might as well try another *buntu.

[AJerman]

Definitely interested in what they've been able to do. It doesn't sound like just another Ubuntu spin off, it sounds like they've done a massive amount of their own work, but I guess we'll see. I haven't kept up with development, but it sure looks good in the screenshots. I'll toss it on a VM when it finishes downloading.

[+Brando212]

just installed it in a VM and looked around a little

all they're really done is make it look even more like OSX in most areas

at this rate I can see them getting into some trouble

[HawkMan]

Why a dock... why... if they're going to pick stuff from OSX, why pick the most useless and worst task switcher invented, when there's some actual good things to take from it.

This is the same distro where the devs where spamming these forums and never actually got around to a working release before ?

[Glassed Silver]

HawkMan, on 14 November 2012 - 19:18, said:

Why a dock... why... if they're going to pick stuff from OSX, why pick the most useless and worst task switcher invented, when there's some actual good things to take from it.

This is the same distro where the devs where spamming these forums and never actually got around to a working release before ?

IMHO the dock is awesome.
To each his own I guess
Feel free to add any other method to it. It's Linux. ^^

Uhm, don't think so, no.

Glassed Silver:mac

[Syanide]

As much as I like it, it lacks identity and will be stuck with the same problems every distro is stuck with - plethora of development and desktop environment choices that don't overlap enough to provide a consistent experience, and don't stand out enough to make it interesting for any developer to specifically target their platform.

[br0adband]

Been waiting a long long time for this, just grabbed the ISO off the torrent and will drop it on a spare hard drive here in a few and check it out. Was disappointed in some of the last alphas because of a variety of issues so I'm hoping most of the big ones have been finally ironed out with this first official beta - took 'em long enough but, I know they care about what they're doing so I like many others have been very patient.

We'll see what happens...