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I agree that the website it poorly designed, but you can download Elementary OS for free. Just enter 0 in the "Custom Amount" box. > I dug into the blog a bit
by wz1000 12y ago
I agree that the website it poorly designed, but you can download Elementary OS for free. Just enter 0 in the "Custom Amount" box.
> I dug into the blog a bit and all I can tell is that it's Ubuntu with some Gnome skins.
Not really. The eOS developers wrote a whole DE(Pantheon) and the included applications from scratch. The website does a very poor job of explaining that.
- wlesieutre 12y agoThey used to have a better website. I think it was the victim of "upgrades".
- amk_ 12y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20130302134643/http://elementaryos.org/journal/luna-beta-1-released https://web.archive.org/web/20130302134643/http://elementary... Release notes from a previous beta that explains more about the underlying infrastructure.
- mintplant 12y agoTheir old developer website also explained some of the new technologies that Elementary OS exposes to applications: - Contractor (like Android's Intents): https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024115/http://elementaryos.org/docs/contractor https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024115/http://elementary... - Switchboard (unified, pluggable system settings): https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024137/http://elementaryos.org/docs/apis/switchboard https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024137/http://elementary... - Granite (GTK+ widget collection): https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024129/http://elementaryos.org/docs/apis/granite https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024129/http://elementary...
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