MoonOS is something I heard about maybe a week or two ago, and after I heard of it from reading through something, I decided to look at it, as it did seem nice. I personally have VERY strong opinions when it comes to software, and in particular, OSs...

So no surprises there, what is MoonOS? Well, it's the only thing based on Ubuntu I think is worth looking at....

Moon OS is based on Ubuntu, and it's a Live CD you can download and look at, without installing it. You can install it too obviously, but you don't have to. The thing that really grabbed me was the fact that unlike most distros, it's not using KDE, or Gnome... It's using Enlightenment!

Enlightenment E-17 actually. And WOW was my first thought. It's simply amazing looking. It's incredibly nice looking actually. It looks like the thing Apple SHOULD have done with OS X.

I mean seriously now, when people talk about how pretty something is in GUIs, they generally WILL bring up Apple at some point. Well, a long time ago on here, I posted some screen shots and did a quick talk about Enlightenment E-17, and how I thought it was simply the most amazing looking Window Manager you could use.

I personally don't always use Enlightenment, but I do enough that I know I Love it. I generally will log into a machine, and decide on "OK, do I want KDE? Or Gnome? Or maybe FVWM? FVWM2? FVWM-Crystal? TWM? Window Maker? After Step?" And so on, because I sometimes want one look and feel, and sometimes I want another.

Well, MoonOS does more than just slap Enlightenment E-17 into a disk, and call it a day. It also has Art Work that was done for it, and, it looks NICE!

I'm going to go ahead and slap the "gore Stamp of Approval" on this one. I may not like Ubuntu at all, and may get sick of hearing about it, but for once, someone who took Debian, and made into crap, finally turned the turd into something good!

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=MoonOS

You can get details there, and also of course:

http://distrowatch.com/images/cgfjoewdlbc/moonos.png

http://moonos.org/