Yet Another Linux Blog: Enlightenment 17 Review

"My first Linux experiences came through Knoppix and Mandrake, which send you to the KDE desktop by default. I used KDE at first, but I wanted to experiment with other less Windowsesque environments. The first one I installed was Enlightenment 16, which I must confess I had first heard of in Neal Stephenson's essay 'In The Beginning There Was the Command Line.' In that essay he said Enlightenment 'may be the hippest single technology product I have ever seen' and that 'it looks amazingly cool.' Since these sentiments were written in 1999, plenty of rivals have emerged for the title of 'hippest tech...'"

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