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http://elementaryos.org

I've recently tried this out on an old XP PC that is very slow and not really secure for
internet use anymore. It's a very Mac-Like UI on top of a version of Linux. No need to
run any antivirus or antimalware software for it to be secure online.

So if you've got an older Windows laptop or Desktop that you just can't get OS X to run on this is
another option to re-purpose older hardware. One note though, it doesn't seem to install very well
on newer Windows 8 or 8.1 computers so try it on a machine that runs at least Win 7 or an older
version of the MS OS.

You can even run it from a bootable flash drive of 1 GB or more. Give it a try and see what you think.
Should mention that booting from the USB is hit or miss but if you burn the iso to a CD it seems to
work every time on a PC built to run Windows. A DVD will of course work too.

I learned about this from a post here on tonymacx86 so I thought I'd share it with the rest of
the community. If you can, make a donation when you download to help support this project.
 
just did the install on a spare drive.
a nice distro, boots up quickly.
still playing awsome replacement for windows

I like it too. Not sure why it's not more widely known about.
I just first heard of it one month ago.
 
I like it too. Not sure why it's not more widely known about.
I just first heard of it one month ago.

Because when you come down to it.... despite it's pretty face, it's still Just Another Brand of Linux. with even less hardware support.

When you get to the annoyance of installing Wine for the Windows programs you can't leave behind, it's still the same struggle you'd have on any other distro.
 
When you get to the annoyance of installing Wine for the Windows programs you can't leave behind, it's still the same struggle you'd have on any other distro.

Correct, it's not going to replace Win7 or 8.1 but I'd rather see people still surfing the internet
with Old XP boxes using this. XP was a security nightmare even before MS support for it was
ended. If you install the version of Chromium available for this distro you can use pretty much
any website on the internet and not have to worry about all the adware and malware that
Windows PCs get overwhelmed with. I spend a lot of time repairing PCs overloaded with
tons of malware downloaded by unsuspecting users. Gets tiresome pretty quick. So Luna does
have it's place for certain users.
 
Wow nice find, thanks for sharing. That's the nicest looking distro of Linux I've ever seen. Totally in danger of getting installed....

Also gives me a bit of hope for the day when Apple completes the iOS-ification of OS X and ruins it entirely.
 
I am a network engineer for a health care provider. All of our end user workstations run Elementary OS. Our servers run Fedora Core and Ubuntu (with the exception of one Windows Server).

I transitioned all of our workstations from Ubuntu to Elementary OS due to lower resources consumption and better usability for our end users. Ubuntu was becoming to bloated and on some of our older workstations it would lag. I have had no issues with Elementary OS so far.
 
Here's another low cost way you could run the E. OS. Just buy an Asus Chromebox for around
150 USD and then install it alongside Chrome OS. The video shows Ubuntu but the process is
mostly the same for Elementary OS. Here's an installation script specifically for E. OS.

https://github.com/Setsuna666/elementaryos-chromebook

Here's a good video to show you how to get the Chromebox into developer mode to be able
to get E.OS running along side chrome.

[video=youtube_share;_xsqrQw1kbs]http://youtu.be/_xsqrQw1kbs?list=PLCZHp4d1HnItp2C-3WJ_ByoCkKMem-Gk-[/video]
 
Great distro. I have used it to revive an old Dell laptop. I connected it to my smart TV, and now I have a free multimedia station with a huge screen. What I really like in Linux is that you can customize almost everything. Worked right away with few updates. Great user experience.
 
I been running a Linux distro as secondary OS on all of my computers for years, partly out of curiosity and partly out of practicality. Linux is bulletproof and can mount many different filesystems -- very handy when NTFS or FAT32 partitions get hosed for one reason or another, especially when recovering data involves getting round permissions. My first experience with Luna wasn't very happy. The update manager installed a kernel patch that left Luna unworkable. It became so unstable that I couldn't even boot the previous kernel using GRUB.

Since I built my hackintosh I've been having fun using Oracle VirtualBox to run several distros experimentally (Like many open source projects VBox guests seem to run better under a OS X host than a Windows host. That's my perception, at least.) Since late last year I've been running the beta release of Luna's replacement, Freya. Here is a screenshot:
Screen Shot 2015-04-13 at 2.50.24 AM.jpg

What you see is out-of-the box Freya, no third party apps except Firefox. I still haven't warmed to Midori, Elementary's native browser. Freya is a pretty damned good OS for the 90% of users who do only basics with their computers. One problem is administration, as easy as Freya is it can still be opaque to most people.

Just yesterday Elementary released the production version of Freya. http://blog.elementary.io/post/116134677986/freya-is-here

[edit]
I forgot to mention that Freya has native UEFI support, so newer hardware without BIOS should be OK.
 
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