


Now I was eagerly waiting for this release because Elementary OS developers have a reputation of being able to create intuitive & solid applications (or an OS for that matter), and, this was also the first time that they introduced the ‘Pantheon’ desktop and other applications, officially. And thus as a result, ‘Luna’ has taken 2 years and 6 months (roughly) to complete. That said, when you are developing some of the ‘major’ aspects of an OS from the ground-up, and does not posses a lot of man-power, then pushing a new release is going to be a tedious task.

From a developer’s perspective, this gives them a lot of control over their OS, and thus, makes it easy to fine-tune and optimize it, in ways that they desire. Elementary OS is a GNU/Linux distribution (based on Ubuntu core) that has a desktop environment and a few major applications of its own.
