Luna is the upcoming release of elementary OS, which is still in development stage. Here are some of the screen shots taken from a live session from a 20120504 build. Builds can be downloaded from here. Most of them are pre-release builds, so it could be broken or will not work on your system. Try it on your own risk.

Enjoy the simplicity and awesomeness.

Currently running KDE 4.8.1 on openSUSE 12.1 with 3.2.9 kernel. One thing i always love about KDE is it’s customization of almost everything. You can customize it from head to toe the way you want it. In the screen shots below, i would also share my desktop settings if any one else might want to try it out.

Desktop theme: Produkt

Windows decoration: Bespin

Style: Oxygen

Fonts: Droid Sans

Icons: MaliaeSVG

Colors: Mint-RGS

Kwin beclock at the right top corner.

Cinnamon is a desktop environment introduced by Linux Mint developers/creators. It is based on Gnome3 giving you the look and feel of Gnome2 and is quite nicely done with its initial stage. Let’s have it in openSUSE 12.1, 1st of all open terminal and become root by su - . Now type:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Cinnamon/12.1/ Cinnamon-desktop

And now refresh the repos:

zypper ref

Install cinnamon by typing the following command:

zypper in cinnamon

After installation, logout and choose cinnamon from the session menu and login. There you have it…easy!

When it comes to desktops in Linux, one would always think of some popular ones like KDE, Gnome, XFCE, LXDE and now Unity, Cinnamon etc. Every Linux user has her/his own choice of desktop. But to be honest, all are good and depends for what liking one would use it. Some are light, some are polished, some is packed with many apps and so on… XFCE is one of the light desktop we have in Linux, and it have its own user base.

Xubuntu 12.04 will be a LTS version supported for five years on desktops and servers. Lets take a look what Xubuntu desktop got this time.. Love the elementary(now elementaryos) theme and icons BDW.

Xubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 Screenshots