Howdy! Do you know if they make any plugins to protect against hackers? I’m kinda paranoid about losing everything I’ve worked hard on. Any recommendations?

I’ve got the moonos/e17 installed on a netbook (philco atom etc.). It’s a beautiful, very fast and reliable distro up to now (1 month). Nice work!

I use moonOS as my primary OS on my netbook. I use this little computer for pretty much everything (school at ITT Tech, web surfing, email, business, etc), and moonOS runs very well! It is a gorgeous system, and I’m happy to use it about 80% of the time. The 20% that I’m not using moonOS, I’m using Windows 7 Ultimate. This is mainly for school stuff at ITT, if there is a project that REQUIRES the use of Windows for something…

Anyway, keep up the good work Jim!

–Josh

@ Eddie Wilson:

There is a 64-bit version available from the current downloads page:
http://moonos.linuxfreedom.com/download.html

I’m going to try it because its seems like a great remastered distro. I wish they had a 64 bit version. Very good review also.

Thanks,

As I belong to ‘distroshopper maniac club’ any distro fortunate to withstand the torture of me for more than one month,’Moon OS’ is the exception.. I am playing with it verson 2 for more than 5 months,and yet to make it crush…the sound problem has not detrred it not to use it.. Since other partitions are having Sabayaon , and Linux Mint substitute it..I’ll try to move MoonOs 3 as soon as possible..

I always enjoyed the way Ubuntu kept some form of the Debian spiral in the desktop artwork… a sort of homage.

And I see Moon does, too.

Heh, heh. No problem, James. Sometimes it takes me a while to find the install icons too.

Thanks for the kind words about the review.

Ok. i do need glasses as all i needed to do was push the big icon that says “See file on desktop” when you move the mouse over it. Voila the install icon appears!

Yes you can call me names now.

Hi Jim, great review by the way, just one question: do i need glasses because i can’t find the install icon or anything looking like an option to install to the hard drive like in MoonOS 2?

Kind regards

James

P.s I’m opening a new cafe/holistic centre soon and i think i might use MoonOS as the colour scheme! It’s very beautifully zen.

Hi, Jim.

Thanks for your informative review of MoonOS. It looks interesting, and I’m downloading it now to check it out for myself.

By the way, “it’s” (with the apostrophe) means “it is.” I think there were a couple of places in the review where you meant to use “its” (no apostrophe). :)

Thanks again.

Tony

I grabbed moonOS 3, Makara, and I am using the standard E17 Enlightenment version with Virtualbox 3.0.6 on Debian Lenny. It did not take long at all to load and it runs pretty well, and it is indeed very attractive.

The LXDE version, as far as I can tell right now, is limited to Version 2 – I grabbed that and will give it a try as well.

Albinootje, I have all three available on my computers (Parallels, VMWare and VirtualBox). I float back and forth depending on the distro though I lean toward VMWare solely out of habit. VirtualBox is great too though.

The Moon tools look very much like Mint tools – or is it just me?

Thanks for this review with the nice screenshots. Good to know about this Linux distribution.
But I have one remaining question, why did you use the proprietary software VMware and Parallels, and why not the open source VirtualBox instead ?

I think MoonOS is the best of the Enlightenment Distros (OpenGEU, OzOS, Elive, Maryan etc). I’m pretty sure the “Light of Free Operating System” is a translation issue.

I tried out MoonOS 2 recently and was pleased with it. I like the feel of E17. The only problem I had with it involved reading my other hard drives. The live Cd mounted all my drives and parttions with no problems. But I missed a step on the install somewher. The other drives would show in the places gadget and in the MNT folder but I could not get them to mount even as root. I also prefer the itask-ng module over the regular shelf for launching applications.

Hi Brian,

Yeah, there’s some fun stuff out there that doesn’t get much press. Glad you are enjoying the reviews. moonOS is definitely cool. Let me know how you like the LXDE version if you try it.

Wow, Jim, you are reviewing all of the lesser known distros this week! I’ve heard of moonOS before, but I do not remember grabbing a copy; I may do so this time and see if I have any success getting it going with Virtualbox OSE. It certainly is a good looking distro! Maybe I will try the LXDE variation just to be different and see if it also has the same outstanding art work.