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As a new potential user I'd like to see more screenshots on the front page before I send them my money or download and install the OS. A video preview of 2-3 minutes would be even better.

Select 'Custom' under the payment options, enter 0.00 and download. Contribute later if you want to.

Their official Download Mirror is sourceforge.

There is a surprising lack of information on the website. Here are a couple links that help fill in the gaps.

"elementary OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It makes use of a desktop with its own shell named Pantheon,[2] and is deeply integrated with other elementary OS applications like Plank (a dock), Midori (the default web browser) and Scratch (a simple text editor). This distribution uses Gala as its window manager..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_OS

"elementary OS Freya vs elementary OS Luna - What's new?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBS6RDLTNA

It looks intriguing. A host of application level services built on linux leads me to think of this as a KDE-like effort to remake the desktop.

A browser that's not Firefox or Chrome scares me slightly, considering the amount of resources that go into securing them, yet they all fall at cansecwest.

How vulnerable can I expect to be running Midori?

Midori is WebKit-based, so it's only as vulnerable as Safari.

WebKit isn't the only possible source of insecurity in an app that uses it. It may not even be in the top 10 versus things like image and font rendering libraries.

That's not actually true. A browser is not as secure as it's engine. The thing is really more complex than that.

There are configurations concern, certificates, security layer, apps/plugins/add-ons, bugs within the ui layer...

Sure, but the bulk of the issues are in the renderering engine, and for that they are sorted.

I know, it's the exposed part after all, but still I wouldn't recommend it as "secure as safari".

They did a hangout yesterday where they run through a few things here https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=wtxmBJKMrDI.

It's funny, it's like a bedroom version of an Apple conf. Similar progress pace, but small team and FOSS.

The eOS devs do seem to take a lot of cues from Apple.

Yes, it's not surprising and not limited to them either. But seeing all the similarities in a non fanatic context also makes Apple work a tad less amazing.

We've been doing boot process and default desktop screencasts for new Linux releases for a little while now at LQ. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-screencasts-11... for the elementary OS Freya one.

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