Elementary OS is an open source operating system designed with an emphasis on… well, design. The Linux-based operating system is designed to be fast, versatile and powerful. But what really sets it ...

I've been following the progress of Elementary OS, an offshoot of an icon/gtk theme. They seem to be aiming for a light distribution with a very consistent visual design and a bunch of custom software ...

As part of my journey into the expansive and exciting world of Linux desktops, I've been engaging in a behavior known as "distro hopping." I'm sure many Linux users have their personal reasons for ...

Elementary OS is a new style Linux distro that wraps its own sophisticated desktop design around a solid Ubuntu core.This distro first appeared in 2011. Its developers released the second major ...

The release last month ofElementary OS Freya version 0.3.2 showed little has changed in this new-style Linux distro that wraps its own lightweight desktop design around the Ubuntu core. Elementary OS ...

During the elementary OS community challenge. I've talked a lot about the designers' vision of how an operating system should function. How apps should be smarter when they're being closed, by ...

My ongoing quest to live in every Linux Desktop Environment – for one week at a time – has brought me to a relative newcomer — the elementary OS project’s “Pantheon” environment. Last week, I was ...

Elementary OS is a desktop operating system with a Mac-like user interface, but it’s a free and open source operating system based on Ubuntu Linux. This week the developers behind the operating system ...

Last month the elementary team released elementary OS “Loki” 0.4. Needless to say, I wasted no time downloading and installing that bad boy on one of my machines. Even though I tend to use openSUSE on ...

I've used just about every type of Linux desktop imaginable. Over the years, one of the things that has most impressed me is the ability of Linux distribution developers to reinvent the wheel in ways ...

A Linux distribution on the desktop is an amalgam of the tortoise and the little train that could. Ever so slowly, it continues to move onward and upward, ticking away the market share percentages by ...