[elementary OS] A quick glimpse of elementary OS Freya

**sffvba[e0rt** · April 15th, 2014

As soon as these are closed the beta will be on its way...

**Dlambert** · April 16th, 2014

Originally Posted by grier-devon

I really like Elementary OS Luna when I played with it when it was first released. I think the only thing that kills me is the extremely out of date packages it uses and I love midori but for me midori runs better on every distro but Elementary OS. Can you use the PPA system on Elementary OS since it is based on Ubuntu?

Amen.

**slooksterpsv** · April 17th, 2014

elementary OS is one OS I can see pushing more people towards using Linux. It's very user friendly, very aesthetically friendly, and lightning-fast! SteamOS I think will be good. Ubuntu is good and with the tablet and phone market that'll help quite a bit. elementary OS will show what the face of Linux can do.

**sffvba[e0rt** · April 18th, 2014

Originally Posted by not found

As soon as these are closed the beta will be on its way...

Great, I see the list is growing and not shrinking >.<

**grier-devon** · April 18th, 2014

Originally Posted by slooksterpsv

elementary OS is one OS I can see pushing more people towards using Linux. It's very user friendly, very aesthetically friendly, and lightning-fast! SteamOS I think will be good. Ubuntu is good and with the tablet and phone market that'll help quite a bit. elementary OS will show what the face of Linux can do.

I agree as long as they can keep pulling in more developers and hopefully those like myself who are not developers contribute through IRC and financial means.

So I just bought a new notebook last month using 4th Gen i7 and intel HD 4600 graphics with UEFI. Being that Luna is running a older kernel do you think I could still run it on this notebook? I am thinking about giving it another try but would hate to install and then nothing comes up.

**slooksterpsv** · April 18th, 2014

I just purchased my new computer back in February, and it doesn't work on it; EFI install crashes, no wifi drivers, graphics a pain. You may have better luck, but I'm forced to wait for isis.

**Stinger** · April 18th, 2014

I don't know about UEFI, but as I wrote here

You could consider trying the unstable ElementaryOS build from 2014-04-01, it has the Saucy LTS Enablement Stack build in.
It has "kernel 3.11.0-19-generic" and "OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.1, OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30"

Officially I can't recommend that you install it ( have only tried it live myself ) but what you do is completely up to you

Try it live first to see if it works.

Else I would say it would be better for you to wait for Isis.

**grier-devon** · April 18th, 2014

My boot menu wouldn't even recognize the disc, my boot menu will only list what is available so with no UEFI support it wouldn't even present it as a option. I might try the unstable in a VM just to see how it holds up and if it feels stable then might see if it will install. Post back my findings on the unstable.

**Stinger** · April 19th, 2014

oldfred has a thread about UEFI Installing Tips I think you can benefit from reading that ( or ask the man himself )

As of 12.04.2 or later, it is possible to install on UEFI systems with Secure Boot enabled (using signed versions of Shim, GRUB, and the Linux kernel).

The unstable Luna image is based on 12.04.4 and should work

Maybe it's even possible to boot the original stable Luna image if you disable secure boot from UEFI BIOS ?