If so, please send me pointers to bazaar-model software with complex, highly effective user interfaces. I want to understand how this really works. This is definitely one to watch, as it's developing furiously fast and each release is more and more formidable. A gTk- based web browser, Mnemonic, was part of the project, but the imminent release of Netscape 5.0 probably puts this in the shade. Oh yes, Enlightenment is designed to make it really easy to completely redesign the look'n'feel of your system.
Caldera make one of the more corporate linux distributions.
In other words, an attempt to make it easier for new users to get into it. I've only scratched the surface here. The screen I'm sitting in front of today is WAY different from the screen I was sitting in front of in February '97. Back then I had Netscape, and some terminal windows, and a WM that was a klugy half- imitation of Windows 95. It looks like Photoshop for Unix but includes full source code and appears to be massively popular on Linux.