Enlightenment (Window Manager)

Enlightenment (also known simply as E), is a free software/open source window manager for the X Window System. It can be used alone or together with a desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE. Enlightenment is sometimes used as a replacement for a full desktop environment.

Enlightenment
Original author(s)Carsten Haitzler
Developer(s)E17 Development Team
Initial release1997
Stable release
E17 0.17.2.1 / 9 April 2013 (2013-04-09)[1]
Preview release
E18 0.17.99.83478 / 31 January 2013 (2013-01-31)[2]
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
TypeWindow manager
LicenseBSD
Websitewww.enlightenment.org

History

The first version of Enlightenment was released by Raster (Carsten Haitzler) on 1996-10-30.[3]

Enlightenment has been under development for 10 years. Its latest stable release is E17. It always comes with a warning that it is in permanent "heavy development" and remains "not stable".

  • Eterm - the Enlightened Terminal
  • Enlightenment Foundation Libraries
  • Elive - an installable LiveCD of Debian GNU/Linux built to showcase Enlightenment (Includes both DR16 & DR17.)
  • gOS - an Ubuntu-based distribution available on an installable live CD, working on low-end systems and employing a Mac OS X like look.
  • OpenGEU - an Ubuntu-based distribution with E17 supplemented with elements from GNOME and Xfce
  • Maryan Linux - an Ubuntu based distribution. Available on an installable live CD, working on low-end systems.
  • OzOS - an Ubuntu-based distribution with e17 compiled and maintained directly from CVS source via morlenxus easy_e17.sh script.
  • Exalt The Network manager for E17.

References

  1. antognolli. "E17 bugfix release, E18 + EDBUSv2 snapshots". Archived from the original on 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  2. Mike Blumenkrantz. "E17 bugfix release, E18 + EDBUSv2 snapshots".
  3. "WWW.ENLIGHTENMET.ORG". Archived from the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2008-06-27.

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