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Carsten "The Rasterman" Haitzler, the man behind Enlightenment (E), the extremely configurable window manager for X, speaks about the new, highly anticipated, version 0.17. Already more than a year of development, the new E, will not just be a window manager, but a desktop shell, battling for its place to our desktops, between KDE, Gnome and WindowMaker. The team developing E17 are using some technically interesting methods, while they assure us that speed will be present, plus a visually stunning GUI for the X Window System. Read on for the interview and 3 exclusive screenshots of E17.