elementary OS Freya released


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Stupid annoying download button. It looks like you have to pay a donation before downloading.

I worked out that you have to choose '$ custom' and enter zero to get the download.

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Stupid annoying download button. It looks like you have to pay a donation before downloading.

I worked out that you have to choose '$ custom' and enter zero to get the download.

You don't have to pay. I have entered a custom amount of $0 and it worked for me.

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As the dev team said on a G+ post, "please don't link directly to the downloads". It's obvious why :)

Oh, sorry. I have edited my post. You can remove the quote from yours if you want.

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Oh, sorry. I have edited my post. You can remove the quote from yours if you want.

No problem. I'm just trying to do my part for these guys and support their work. I've downloaded the iso for 20$, but I don't know if I have to do a clean installation or just update my current (beta) installation. 

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I tried it once and it was good OS overall. I did not like the fact that it was kind of confusing to change the search default from Duck Duck Go. But it is still better and aesthetically pleasing than MS new tablet UI train wreck and sneaky way to make unsuspected user login with MS account when they set up users on the computer. 

They have changed the search engine so that it would be even more oriented on preserving the privacy. Better and aesthetically pleasing often always is a subjective matter. Not implying it's bad or anything, but it looks more or less like a glorified and dated Mac OS X imitation. At least Metro was unique, even if it was more tablet oriented in a way or another.

 

But speaking about apples vs apples, and not apples vs oranges, Microsoft had nothing to do with GNOME 3 nor with Ubuntu's Unity and both were heavily criticized for being too tablet oriented, just because they were aiming to try out a new paradigm and interface concept and style.

There's nothing sneaky about having a user login with a Microsoft account, it is the preferred way of logging into Windows 8 and 10. It would be sneaky if it would be hard to get to it (limiting the functionality and usability in Windows overall) instead. And back to the Linux world, Ubuntu also almost had such system implemented, Ubuntu Single Sign On, before it was deemed too unstable and left aside. It would've simplified a lot of the installation and preparation process, without changing up settings over and over, since you would've had them on the cloud, Ubuntu One in that case. Yet this is an area that Windows 8/10 does it very very well.

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I rather like eOS apart from the fact that you have to install a tweaking kit to get the minimise button working properly. Though as I've stated before I have no problem with devs being paid for their work, I'm not a massive fan of the way they choose to try and extract donations.

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Is this yet another version of Linux with some theme on gnome to make it unique?

No.

 

Go read about it, which you should have done before making such a comment.

 

 

I have Luna for my android build environment, but tossed Freya on a junk laptop here.  It flies, and suddenly I don't mind that its a core-i3 with 4gb of ram :p

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Is Freya faster than Luna?

I like eOS as my second OS, and I've installed it on older machines. It is very good. Great for older netbooks (Asus eeepc 1000HA).

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Is Freya faster than Luna?

I like eOS as my second OS, and I've installed it on older machines. It is very good. Great for older netbooks (Asus eeepc 1000HA).

I believe it is. I used to have luna installed on my notebook, then I installed freya once the 1st beta was out, and there is a difference in performance. But both versions are fast, overall.

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Tune Up elementary OS 0.3 Freya With `elementary Tweaks`

 

elementary Tweaks is a tool especially created for elementary OS, which allows adjusting various "hidden" settings, such as changing the themes and fonts, accessing various Plank or Files settings and much more.

 

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From elementary Tweaks, users can access the following settings:

  • Appearance: change the window, GTK, icon and cursor themes, change the window buttons layout;
  • change fonts;
  • disable animations or change various animations duration;
  • change focused/unfocused window shadows;
  • Plank: change the dock's screen position, alignment, theme, hide delay and hide mode, icon size, enable Plank for the current workspace only, lock items and more;
  • Files: disable single click, change date format and sidebar icon size;
  • Slingshot: change the number of rows and columns;
  • add/remove Cerbere watched processes (Cerbere monitors a predefined list of processes and relaunches them if they end);
  • Terminal: change opacity and color scheme;
  • more.

Since elementary Tweaks is available as a Switchboard plug (System Settings), it doesn't show up in the menu and instead, you'll find it in System Settings > Tweaks:
 
elementary-tweaks-system-settings.png
 
'm sure many of you are already familiar with elementary Tweaks but with the elementary OS 0.3 Freya release, the distro will get many new users which will look for ways to change the themes, move the dock or change the window buttons layout and they might not know about this small but very useful tool.
 
Install elementary Tweaks in elementary OS 0.3 Freya

To add the elementary Tweaks PPA and install the app in elementary OS Freya, use the following commands:
 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mpstark/elementary-tweaks-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-tweaks
 
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Is this yet another version of Linux with some theme on gnome to make it unique?

It tries super extra awesome hard to look as much like OS X as it possibly can, putting almost no effort whatsoever into actually doing design work, and then boasts how it's a design-forward distribution of Linux.

 

But aside from being a bunch of posers, it's a pretty solid Linux to play around with.

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looks nice but for some reason this feels bloated to me

Bloated?! It's one of the most lightweight distros out there, it only includes a browser, email client, file manager, video & audio player. If this is bloated, then what is light to you? Kernel only?  :/

It tries super extra awesome hard to look as much like OS X as it possibly can, putting almost no effort whatsoever into actually doing design work, and then boasts how it's a design-forward distribution of Linux.

 

But aside from being a bunch of posers, it's a pretty solid Linux to play around with.

You clearly don't have any clue about this distro. I recommend you do some research and see what their work is. By your logic, 99% of the Linux distros out there try "super extra awesome hard" to look like Windows. Right.

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You clearly don't have any clue about this distro. I recommend you do some research and see what their work is. By your logic, 99% of the Linux distros out there try "super extra awesome hard" to look like Windows. Right.

Oh lord, come off it. I get that fans see what they want to see, but if you don't see the shades of Mac OS in this distribution, it's because you aren't letting yourself.

 

Jeez, it's like the people back in the old days who insisted Linux distros didn't look like Windows because "this gradient is totally different!"

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Oh lord, come off it. I get that fans see what they want to see, but if you don't see the shades of Mac OS in this distribution, it's because you aren't letting yourself.

 

Jeez, it's like the people back in the old days who insisted Linux distros didn't look like Windows because "this gradient is totally different!"

Where did I say anything about not looking similar? You implied that the dev team does what they can to COPY OSX, and this is totally wrong. In fact, they hate when people compare their distro with OSX. Slapping a dock into a Linux distro does NOT transform it into OSX.

 

P.S. I guess this one does super hard work to be OSX too, right?

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I installed Freya in VMWare and clicked to insert the VMWare tools and I see it in the file manager. I opened it in terminal but can't install the tools. There is no install script. All I can see is autorun.sh, runasroot.sh, VBoxLinuxAdditions.run and various packages. I can't run any of the scripts. How do I get it installed?

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I installed Freya in VMWare and clicked to insert the VMWare tools and I see it in the file manager. I opened it in terminal but can't install the tools. There is no install script. All I can see is autorun.sh, runasroot.sh, VBoxLinuxAdditions.run and various packages. I can't run any of the scripts. How do I get it installed?

VMWare should have an archive on the guest ISO that you need to extract, something along the lines of "VMWareTools.....tar.gz" (with version numers in the name) Inside that folder should be a script called "vmware-install.pl", just run that via "sudo ./vmware-install.pl" and it'll take it from there. I forget, you may need to install build-essentials too for the 'Buntu based distros. Shouldn't see anything like "VBoxLinuxAdditions" as that's totally the wrong VM software.. unless VMWare was a typo, in which case you want to run "sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run", again probably need the build-essentials installed beforehand.
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This is why Linux will never become a mainstream OS:

 

I just installed Freya in a partition. Booted up fine. Everything works.

Except my wi-fi and sound.

 

This has been my experience with most installations of Linux.

 

Now, I have to do research on the internet, and follow some very arcane procedures to (maybe) get these to work.

I have to know how to use Linux command line (Terminal) commands.

 

My system is ancient: 2nd Gen i5 2310 processor, MSI mainboard circa 2011.

 

At least Windows installs basic drivers for everything, so you can start being productive with your installation right away.

 

No, thanks.

 

Any newbie can try Windows. Linux requires a keyboard jockey.

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I am not inserting a physical disc for the VMWare tools. I am using the menu entry while the machine is running. There is a virtual CD in the drive and when I go to it, there is no install script. I don't see any archive in there unless it hides it somewhere else.

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