Comments on Enlightenment 17 QuickStart Guide

Beautiful desktop with simply wonderful system navigation and (not sure if only on eLive Distro) the control panel is one of the easyest to use! You have moving backgrounds zooming icons and transparency. Another nice thing you can do these days is the XGL Desktop! Windows Vista has nothing on Linux now! Especially installed on a PS3 "Cell" Processor Multi-media Gaming Computer when it comes out! But with this machine you can even run Sun's super awesome "Looking Glass" over Java Desktop! But with Enlightment you're also on the cutting edge of Open Source!

As this howto states, while Enlightenment "stable" version is 0.16, the reviewed version is a snapshot of the CVS tree that will become the next stable version (0.17). The CVS snapshot version is 0.16.999.023: this means it's very close to 0.17.0, which will be the first release of the next stable version.

Hope this clarifies the situation, have a nice day. 

Actually e17 is sort of beta and is available only as cvs builds..they call Enlightenment 0.16.999.xxx as e17 :) and not Enlightenment 16 (e16)..

it's an "early" development version of e17.

The latest release of e16 is 16.8.2

e17 has not been released yet, so you're not going to find a 17.0.0 or anything. 16.999.023 is the e17 development release (DR17), 23rd revision. 16.999 = 17 beta, sort of like how xorg did it with 6.9 & 7.0

e17 is simply amazing, btw O_O

The topic for this howto says "Enlightenment 17 QuickStart guide", but a few lines below it says In this article we will talk about the latest CVS build available (0.16.999.023).

So, is this Enlightenment 16 or Enlightenment 17? 

What I would like to say is that E17 or DR17  is a desktop environment that can serve as both the window manager and a desktop environment at the same time in your OS. It helps you to run the latest software even in your old PC. Other features are Low resource consumption,Highly Responsive,Keeps the CPU far more cooler than any other DE,etc.Check it out  Here