"Enlightenment is one of the oldest open source desktop projects in existence. With E17, the developers are gearing up to their latest release, an occasion that has been a long time in the making. The word is that the team will make some announcements at the EFL Developer Day taking place as part of Linuxcon Europe on 5 November. With a release likely being close at hand, The H spoke to project leader Carsten 'Rasterman' Haitzler about how the desktop environment has been progressing and what the goals are for the project."
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My biggest issue with E17 is that they are doing a terrible job of selling it.
The website has all this pretty, fancy talk about how great it is, but there's no obvious way to "See More...". No links to screenshots, no example code, and no more in-depth description of it.
It's as if they're pretending to be some fly by night operation to hide the fact that they've actually got something good and worthwhile.
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The problem is that, unless you're already hooked enough to be truly dedicated to assuaging your curiosity, you don't really explore Bodhi Linux.
You search up E17, wander around for a while, maybe find an image or two on Google Images or the Wikipedia page, don't find a solid explanation of why this thing named E17 is more interesting than KDE 4 or GNOME 3 or some other pretty desktop, and run out your curiosity inertia before you start properly investigating the See Also links.
Edited 2012-11-03 09:10 UTC
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That said, the Arch Linux packages are very complete and stable enough for daily use.
Good to know. I'll probably stick with LXDE since their Debian and Ubuntu packages are nice and up to date and Arch is one of those things I keep wanting to try but never can justify time for.
Still, you didn't say anything about how it compares to LXDE, performance-wise. Are we talking a little-known alternative to LXDE or just a much lighter competitor to KDE and GNOME that LXDE still outperforms?
Edited 2012-11-03 15:21 UTC
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How would you say it compares to LXDE for performance and memory-consumption?
...because that's currently sort of my gold standard for what I want. I'm always looking for new functionality that streamlines my day (for example, I may replace Openbox with AwesomeWM or XMonad) but only if it doesn't increase the CPU or memory footprint disproportionate to what I gain.
(Among other reasons, because I run the same desktop on both my monster of a main machine and the 2Ghz Celeron with 1GiB of RAM that I use as a minimum target platform for my own creations)
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IIRC even some 1999 CHIP magazine mentioned E17, when discussing Enlightenment - and that's not even a Linux-focused periodical. Also WindowMaker BTW, when reviewing Red Hat 5.2 in CHIP 02/1999 (that I had at hand, was able to quickly find).
I guess it's simply a good writing material, with kinda epic name. 
That's clearly visible above with "Seeking Enlightenment" - but also, consider the differences between exploring your files versus enlightening yourself about the contents of your computer. ;>
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I attended Rasterman's talk at Atlantacon in 2001 (http://www.atlantacon.org/events_2001.html) where he presented Evas and discussed the upcoming E17. That was over 11 years ago. It was an exciting prospect at the time, but now? Probably not.
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Once I asked a ~demographer about mortality statistics for the most likely demographic (mostly teens to early adults) of Duke Nukem 3D players - and it turns out that ~1% of them didn't make the wait, the decade+ of DNF development.
It's certainly similar for Enlightenment...