Download elementary OS 0.3 beta 2

The second beta release of elementary OS version 0.3, also known as Freya, has been released. Elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, which aims to provide a consistent and simple desktop environment with Pantheon. Other typical features are the dock Plank, the Midori web browser and the simple text editor Scratch. Beta 2, which comes half a year after the first, has almost 600 improvements. The most important of these are listed below.

Freya Beta 2 is here!

You thought the day would never come, but after 6 months and almost 600 fixes we’re bringing you the next step on our way to a final release of elementary OS 0.3!

This beta brings HUGE changes like:

• Better support for Samba in Files
• New Calculator & Videos apps
• UI improvements in Calendar, Photos, System Settings, Slingshot & more
• Notifications & Firewall settings
• Better and more discoverable multitasking.
• Updated 3rd party apps (including Geary, Simple Scan, Document Viewer & more)
• Updated development libraries (including Gtk 3.14)
• Security and Stability improvements
• UEFI/SecureBoot support
• Tons of stylesheet and icon changes and fixes
• And way more other stuff than is possibly reasonable to list here ;p

For a full list of changes, check out this page on Launchpad†