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Even though the Enlightenment desktop is fantastic there are currently not very many distributions that utilize it. Today I would like to take the time to mention those that offer a version with my favorite desktop.

If you have been exploring the world of Linux for any amount of time then odds are you have come across the website Distro Watch at some point or another.

"There is no money in making games of Linux" "There is only a negligible market share for Linux" What do you think?

Many FOSS projects are on-par with their closed source counter parts when it comes to the number of features and functionality. Why is it then that FOS softwares are less commonly used by the general public? Simple: User Familiarity

Perhaps you saw a couple weeks ago Netflix's post touting their advocacy of open source software. It's a shame there aren't any video streaming programs on that list...

Two nights ago after many complaints, complements, bug reports, and themes myself and the Bodhi Linux Team pushed out our forth alpha release of the minimalistic, enlightenment using distribution. This release includes a few bug fixes, ELF Beta 3 packages, Firefox 4.0 B7, and a good deal of "polish around the edges" previous versions of the distro had lacked.

While it is true that Enlightenment has a good number of built-in effects that run on a wide range of systems, those with a more powerful system might crave something more. Thanks to the Ecomorph module for Enlightenment, you can enable many of your favorite Compiz effects on the Enlightenment desktop.

The problem with this system you ask? There is namely one issue: Canonical does not review any of the packages that are uploaded to PPAs.

The Linux world has been very talkative for the last few weeks with the news that Ubuntu plans on switching from the classic X server to Wayland for it's graphics environment. What is Wayland exactly and why the change?...

Bodhi is a minimalistic, Linux distro that uses the Enlightenment desktop. Bodhi comes as a 350~meg download.

This build is a livedvd showcasing the new beta E-17 window manager. It was built on the 10.04 Ubuntu core and follows PinguyOS, in being a working out of the box operating system.

I was a bit tired of GDM's bland default brown background and the Clearlooks GTK theme so I deiced to change these. I did not want to install an application to accomplish these two simple configuration changes - luckily I didn't have to and neither do you.

Fusion Linux aims to do for Fedora what Linux Mint did for Ubuntu. It aims to alleviate much of the messy setup work that is required to get a fully functional desktop operating system out of Fedora. It does all this while remaining 100% backwards compatible with Fedora.

I came to a realization this morning: I am a Linux Geek. What finally brought me to this realization? Well, it all started last night...

For a long time Apple has been known as a company that creates new and innovative products. It makes me slightly sad that the up coming Apple OS 10.7 (Lion) is going to follow in the steps of the iPad and be less than innovative in the area of new features.

When I searched around for how to install the 2.6.35 kernel on 10.04 I found lots of guides on compiling it from source, but nothing on easily installing it. If you just want a generic 2.6.35 kernel on your 10.04 system there is no reason to go through all that headache.

I just recently did a post detailing why you should give the E17 desktop a try. If you made the plunge and are now using E17 on your unix based system you might be slightly at a loss on exactly how it all works. The following are some helpful tips and tricks for when you are first getting started with E17.

During the three and a half years I have spent using Linux I have tried every different type of desktop under the sun and of them all Enlightenment's E17 is my personal favorite. The following are a few reasons why it may be worth breaking out of your Gnome/KDE comfort zone to give E17 a try.

You have all heard the jokes that the end of the Mayan calender on December 21st 2012 might bring about "the end of the world" in some type of cataclysmic event. Regardless of whether or not this is necessarily true, there have been more than a few technology releases/announcements in the past couple years that many of us thought would never happen.

Like it or hate you have to admit: Ubuntu has done wonders for the Linux desktop. Through Canonical's works, community development, and the various spin offs such as Linux Mint, PinguyOS, Zorin, and many others there is no arguing that Ubuntu based systems are the most popular choice for the Linux desktop operating system. Ubuntu has almost become synonymous, or at the very least as popular, as Linux in general.