Elementary OS is a beginner-friendly Linux distribution in the style of macOS and the 6th edition can now be tried out by everyone as a beta. The Ubuntu derivative, which appeared for the first time in 2007, focuses on the essentials and particularly strongly on the “look” of Apple's operating system.
New modern Substructure with Ubuntu LTS
As the successor to Elementary OS 5.1 (“Hera”), which was released in 2019 and is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (“Bionic Beaver”) and Linux 5.4, the new Elementary OS 6 changes the substructure to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (“Focal Fossa “) And the updated and modernized operating system kernel Linux 5.8.
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Elementary OS 6 Beta with Pantheon desktop (Image: 9to5Linux)
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Elementary OS 6 Beta with Pantheon desktop 
Elementary OS 6 Beta with Pantheon desktop 
Elementary OS 6 Beta with Pantheon desktop 
Elementary OS 6 Beta with Pantheon desktop 
The website 9to5Linux, which specializes in Linux and free software, has already looked at the new edition of the distribution in detail and captured some impressions of the user interface of Elementary OS 6 Beta.
New installer and dark theme
In addition to a new dark theme, the free operating system receives a revised graphical installer and extended support for Flatpak package management including integration into the in-house app store .
The “Pantheon Desktop Environment”, written in the object-oriented programming language Vala, borrows a lot from Gnome and macOS – which are also of an optical nature – and relies on the already established free program library GTK. The latest version of the free desktop environment is said to have made further progress, particularly in terms of multi-gesture control.
Compared to established desktop environments such as Gnome, KDE Plasma 5 or Xfce, Pantheon has significantly less ” Pounds “on the ribs and works accordingly responsive and once again more resource-efficient.
Try Elementary OS 6
Users who would like to try out the new free operating system can download the 2.4 GB system image Elementary OS 6 Beta (ISO) and write it to a USB storage medium using a tool such as Ventoy or Rufus and then live -System use or install.
The YouTube channel Tyler & apos; s Tech demonstrates Elementary OS 6 Beta in detail.
More information is available on the project page on the GitHub developer platform.