2 great looking distros released: linuxmint 10 and pinguy OS

The trend for great looks in linux has heated up, with the release of 2 awesome looking distros: linuxmint 10 and pinguy OS

Both are Ubuntu based, but are very very polished and

Linuxmint 10:
This distro has always been 1 step ahead of ubuntu in usability / ease of use, features and looks.
but this time it has really outdone itself in the looks department after ubuntu got a tad ahead of it 6 months ago.




update:
another awesome final review here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtdWCF_qeEY

grab it here:
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1581

Pinguy OS:
Simply awesome, it comes with everything eye-candy.
IMHO it should had been called EYECANDY OS!
It comes packed with the best of ubuntu, nice tools from linuxmint and all the cool new stuff available in linux.

Pinguy OS links:

thanks to webupd8 for the news

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/tired-of-tweaking-ubuntu-try-pinguy-os.html

Nice interview at distrowatch

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20101101

If you want to show off, without having to spend hours configuring/tweaking stuff, get one of these now !

Just install and wow :)

Expect the battle to really heat up in 6 months with unity and gnome shell ready for mass deployment

Will this be Banshee 2.0 's new interface?

With all the recent news about Banshee 2.0 being default for the new ubuntu 11.04, lots of speculation is going to begin building up around the new features and interface of this major release.

A few prototypes have been in the work for some time:

source: abock.org

Am sure the Ubuntu guys will lend a hand this time and might even have the final say on stuff ( ok, no surprise there ;) ), so things might get mixed around a bit, but all in the name of enhancing the experience.

Ubunu 11.04: unity, banshee 2.0 and other cool things

The next release of Ubuntu, coming in April 2011 looks mighty interesting

Code named "Natty Narwhal" (a narwhal is a whale that *umm* with an unicorn... and thus got one big ass horn! Well actually Wikipedia says it's a tooth, huh? WT* :O)

Ooo..K, back to topic

2 of the things it will featured are:

1) A cool new 3d interface called Unity, powered by openGL and compiz (replacing mutter), that will compete directly with the interfaces, in looks and features, of mac and win7, while still being unique and using less resources (yes, you will still be able to use the new ubuntu with just a gig of ram or less).

It's expected to look similar to this:



The up coming new version of unity (using compiz) is said to be much faster.

If you have more questions, you may find answers here


2) A hip media player, Banshee 2.0, that will replace the slow developed "Rhythmbox" app

the current version 1.8 looks like this (depending on your theme)

update:
the new interface for 2.0 might be similar to this

From here till April am sure many more surprises will popUP.

The pace at which Ubuntu and linux have been recently developing is amazing...

I just hope they work a bit more on the back-end and drivers too, so they can polish things as much as they are polishing the UI.