An interview with Rasterman on OSnews, founder of Enlightenment, on E17:
http://www.osnews.com/story/19679
When will E17 be released?
… does Rasterman have any timeframe in mind for the release of the final version of E17? His reply was to be expected - “No comment.” Smiley face included. The big blocker right now is a lack of time, Rasterman said.
So [...]

Quickie install instructions:
Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
# repo from Falko Schmidt:
deb http://debian.alphagemini.org/ unstable main
This will also require you to have Debian’s unstable branch listed in your sources.list .
If your have Enlightenment DR16 installed or any other versions of E17 installed you’ll need to uninstall them:
sudo aptitude remove –purge enlightenment-data enlightenment e17 emodule* libevas* [...]

Update: I’ve decided to use Falko’s packages, see my posting here:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/24/e17-on-debian/
If you want to run E17 on Debian you have 4 choices (as of April 2008):
Wait for E17 packages to make it into Debian’s experimental repository:
http://sicherheitsschwankung.de/post/jan/2008-03-31/going-debconf-08
The Debian E17 team are in the process of loading packages into Debian experimental branch and they should be available [...]

E17 Darkness Theme on Ubuntu:

E17 Darkness Theme on Ubuntu with the menu highlighted:

E17 Darkness theme with a wallpaper from vladstudio.com:

Themes are available from get-e.org. The packages for Ubuntu come with Darkness and other themes, the Debian package appears to only come with the default theme.

Update, April 17th, 2008:
For a Debian update see:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/17/update-on-enlightenment-e17-for-debian/
UPDATE, April 15th, 2008:
This post is out of date, see newer instructions for Ubuntu here:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/15/e17-on-ubuntu-revisited/
UPDATE, April 14th 2008:
Edevelop.org is temporarily down as they move their server to a new datacenter, which means these instructions will not work for Debian until the server is back online. However, for Ubuntu [...]