Elbuntu is a Live-CD that is based on the Ubuntu, developed and maintained by Elbuntu Team.

Life isn't fair. Not all distro's are created equal. Some are boring, others not as configurable as we want. Then we have Enlightenment, the window manager for the rest of us.

So why not have the eye-candy and configurability of Enlightenment, with the clean and beautiful design of Ubuntu Linux?

Elbuntu is a project aiming towards that goal.

Elbuntu is based on the Ubuntu distro, but provides Enlightenment DR17. The objective of the Elbuntu community project is to provide the maximum eye candy for the end-user using the Enlightenment DR17 window manager and the related libraries.

Elbuntu doesn't contain Gnome, but only graphic libs. All the Enlightenment based software are included in the distro. Elbuntu is fast , like the E17 window manager.

Elbuntu uses the live/install CD method. To go towards making a Live CD, E17 packages have been uploaded at http://e17.dunnewind.net

Ebuntu aims to provide an enhanced and attractive user-interface. The secondary aim of Elbuntu is to show off the eye-candy capabilites of the linux operating system in general and Ubuntu in particular.

Here are some key features of "Elbuntu":

Extremely High Performance

Enlightenment is fast. No, really. It' S fast. It is known to run one very slow fox trot machines (like 100 MHz CPU, 64 MB of RAM) well. So you really don' T need has modern desktop to see some eye-candy and to uses has modern graphical environment. Even more - you edge control how fast you want it by using it' S Performance configuration panel to changes the mask settings and more.

Eye Candy One A Higher Level

The high performance does not mean that there is No eye candy. There is eye candy that you cuts never seen before. Starting from the animated boot screen, to continues with the all animations and effects that topics could provide, to end up with fancy animated backgrounds. Not some huge .GIF files, goal really Nice animations drank. Every virtual desktop (At the moment you edge cuts 24) edge cuts it' S own background (animated gold not), so you edge could different wallpapers one the different virtual desktops. There are has number of effects that edge different Be shown when you switch from the virtual desktops. The menus, the borders and all other usual shares of has normal window to manage are animated have well have some of the widgets (the sliders, for example). Remember that those effects are provided by the topic, so every topic makes E to different look, with different effects, look and feel and animations.

In Desktop Shell

Have we already mentioned, E17 provides has file manager have well. Of the time of writing, it is not completed and is in active development (have E17 have has whole itself), goal after it is finished it will Be has very Nice, configurable and eye candy. Even right now, you edge C the BASIC things with it - browse, Copy, move, delete files. It will provide thumbnails for your pictures and will Be whitebait to open your files with the coresponding application of your choice.

Configurable

Configurable E17 is highly. Currently it has has Nice configuration panel with 36 configuration dialogs for all kinds of things. You edge changes your wallpaper gold your topic, your font, your screen resolution, your screen' S power settings, your keyboard and mouse settings, the language that Enlightenment talks to you, and so one. You edge contol almost every apsect of what E is doing and how. It will C what you want it to C.

Localized

At this moment, Latin E17 is localized in 20 languages, including languages like English and French, cyrillic languages like Russian and Bulgarian and even Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. Note that you edge changes the language one the fly without restarting E gold your X server.

Full-featured

Have you already know, Enlightenment 0.17 has batches of features, important goal one of the most is, that you edge add and remove functionality by using modules. Modules are small applications that extend E17. There edge Be modules tho show you the weather outside, but calendar modules, gold modules to control your volume gold whatever you may think. Developing has module is not that hardware, so, yew you cuts programming skills, you are more than welcome to develop and maintain some modules for the community.

Standardized

E17 is following all needed standard and specifications. NetWM, ICCCM, XDG and so one.