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| 2012-11-15 |
NEW • Development Release: elementary OS 0.2 Beta 1 |
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Cassidy James has announced the availability of the first public beta release of elementary OS 0.2, a beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 12.04 and featuring a custom GNOME Shell called "Pantheon": "Developers and testers, today we are happy to announce the first beta release of elementary OS 'Luna'. Luna is our greatest undertaking yet, and along with it have come many new applications, features and development libraries. By integrating and innovating with the latest technologies, we're building a platform that free software developers can be excited about. Pantheon is our new desktop environment and shell. It consists of the greeter, panel, app launcher, dock, window manager, settings app, and theme. Our primary focus during our development of Pantheon has been to provide a clean but powerful stage for great applications." See the full release announcement for more details and screenshots. Download: elementaryos-beta1-i386.iso (621MB), elementaryos-beta1-amd64.iso (642MB). |
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| elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based desktop distribution. Some of its more interesting features include a new GTK+ and icon theme for GNOME, the Midori web browser, new applications developed in-house (e.g. Dexter, an address book and Postler, an email client), and Nautilus Elementary, a simple file manager.
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| 2013-05-06 |
Development Release: elementary OS 0.2 Beta 2 |
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Cassidy James has announced the availability of the second beta release of elementary OS 0.2, an Ubuntu-based distribution with a traditional desktop called Pantheon, a simplified file manager, and Midori web browser: "It has been full 5 months since the release of 'Luna' beta 1 and we've been hard at work to bring you the next beta. We're happy to announce that we're ready to release our second beta. ... Photo enthusiasts will be pleased to find the latest Shotwell 0.14.1 present in beta 2. This release brings a number of stability fixes, better Facebook integration, improved support for RAW, and many more small fixes. Midori, our web browser, has been updated to version 0.5. It features better Granite support, improved responsiveness and functionality in auto-complete, improved extension loading, a reworked downloads backend and a new cookie security manager." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download (MD5): elementaryos-beta2-amd64.20130506.iso (680MB, torrent). |
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