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RAYS LX, developed by Sun Wah Hi-tech (Nanjing) System Software Limited, was the first commercial operating system in China that was based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilises Debian package management tools. RAYS LX provides users with a simple and stylish user interface by adopting the GNOME desktop environment. A variety of applications in RAYS LX helps users fulfilling their demands for Linux migration.
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| 2023-07-13 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.8.34 (Beta) |
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The Elive team has announced a new development snapshot of their Debian-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment desktop environment. The release announcement for the lightweight distribution states: "The Elive team is pleased to announce the release of 3.8.34 beta. This new version includes: NVIDIA drivers - lots of improvements, such as support for Optimus cards (Intel and NVIDIA GPU laptops), OpenCL, video rendering, switching drivers in Live mode and a better installation process; graphical drivers - much improved compatibility and support for any performant application like Blender or DaVinci Resolve; Ctrl+Alt+Del - a special feature has been added, it runs some helpers to make the user's life easier; installer - many improvements and fixes have been added, especially for the migration mode; persistence - allows you to boot from external SSD thumb drives; language selector - improved and with extra user-specific configurations; RAM diagnostic tool - now works on EFI boot systems. Development progress: now that Retrowave-Stable has been released, the Elive team continues its beta release cycle as it has always done. Elive beta 3.8.34 contains upgrades, bug fixes and a default theme of its own." Download (MD5): elive_3.8.34_beta_hybrid_amd64.iso (3,685MB, pkglist). |
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| 2022-07-08 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.8.30 (Beta) |
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Elive is a Debian-based desktop distribution featuring the Enlightenment desktop. The project's latest release, version 3.8.30 (Beta), includes a number of improvements on a Debian 11 "Bullseye" base. The release announcement reports: "This new version includes: Bullseye base: a lot of work was done in the past months for the full integration and this is the first public release using it, which has already been pretty well beta tested behind the curtains, and a lot of improvements were made. Wallpapers are now specific per each released version. Performance boost in ext4 filesystem on new installations or upgrades. Power-management will not shut down your computer if fstrim is running. BIOS update suggested when a possible issue with the BIOS has been detected. Ruby is better integrated into your terminal now. Volume gadget now runs the mixer when you double click on it. Cinelerra-gg is now included on the 32-bit versions too! So, yes, you can now do video-editing in those retro machines." Download (MD5): elive_3.8.30_beta_hybrid_i386.iso (2,954MB, pkglist). |
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| 2022-04-07 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.8.27 (Beta) |
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The Elive project has published a new development snapshot of the Debian-based desktop distribution. The new snapshot features updates to the installer, places key web browser files in RAM, and offers better NVIDIA driver installation support. The release announcement reads: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 3.8.27. This new version includes: Installer with improved compatibility to boot togheter with windows systems. Web browser's temporal files run now on RAM, improving heavily the lifespan of your SSD disk or your USB's in persistence mode. Vim color scheme is now much more vibrant. NVIDIA cards correctly detected for installing extra drivers. Macbooks improved fan support. Wallpapers switching demo is back and on the E16 desktop too! Tmux improved with a better default configuration. Debian base updated to 10.12. Terminology terminal updated and with new features. Updated Debian base, Terminology with new features, and included Kernels with improved stability." |
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| 2021-10-29 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.8.24 (Beta) |
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The Elive team have published a new beta snapshot of their Debian-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment desktop. The project's new snapshot is Elive 3.8.24 Beta. "This new version includes: Bootup speed greatly improved in live mode. Discards for SSD included for encrypted partitions, improving their health and performance. UX If your live system becomes corrupted by having moved accidentally your USB, the user will be informed about this broken state. retroarch emulator of multiple retro gaming platforms and consoles directly included with a full guided setup. Steam improved compatibility and installation. x86 ISO builds includes now many extra packages that was only available on the 64bit version, but don’t worry for having your system lightweight, they can be unselected to have in the installed system. E16 theme files directly installs when double-clicking on the .etheme files." See the release announcement for further details. Download (MD5): elive_3.8.24_beta_hybrid_i386.iso (2,868MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-08-12 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.8.22 (Beta) |
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Elive is a Debian-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment desktop environment. The project has published a new beta snapshot which introduces new features and changes to the default applications. "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 3.8.22. This new version includes: Scaling of desktop can be manually configured now and is autodetected by default for optimal visibility; startup speed of the desktop improved in Live mode; E16 desktop with focus bug fixed; Entice EFL image viewer included; Markdown editor in realtime included, being able to export to html, ePUB and PDF. brightness settings are now smoother and in more steps; IRC chat will use now the Libera server; Google Chrome if installed by the user, will be now always updated to the last official version; hibernation makes sure you have enough space in your swap partition and if is not the case it automatically closes your browsers before to hibernate." Further information can be found in the Elive 3.8.22 Beta release announcement. Download (MD5): elive_3.8.22_beta_hybrid_i386.iso (2,752MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-05-19 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.8.20 (Beta) |
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Elive, or Enlightenment live CD, is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution and live CD featuring the Enlightenment window manager. The project's latest development snapshot is Elive 3.8.20 Beta which includes an updated Linux kernel, live mode USB persistence, and fixes an issue related to detecting time zones. "This new version includes: kernel updated to the version 5.10 with some fixes for building extra modules like NVIDIA; desktop fonts much improved for dynamic sizing; persistence with many improvements for saving sessions in Live mode (USB); Cinelerra gg from our own build always updated to their last releases; cairo-dock switched by default to software based rendering for stability and performance; timezones: fixed some issues detecting your timezone; E16 desktop includes some fixes like the iconify gadget to stay in the same location among restarts, and the systray gadget showing correctly the icons." Further details are available in the release announcement. Download (MD5): elive_3.8.20_beta_hybrid_i386.iso (2,789MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-01-07 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.8.18 (Beta) |
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Elive, or Enlightenment live CD, is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution and live CD featuring the Enlightenment window manager. The distribution's latest development snapshot is Elive 3.8.18 Beta, features convenience functions for trackpad, a faster installer, and updates the base packages to those provided by Debian 10.7. The release announcement provides the details. "This new version includes: Debian 10.7 base updated; touchpad feature added to disable the bottom area movements in clickpads; AppImage downloaded applications directly supported now; Mac computers with bootsplash included, improved keyboard support, fix for the installer searching for EFI partitions; SIS graphic cards supported (Sillicon Integrated Systems 771/671), like for the Fujitsu ESPRIMO Mobile V5515 laptop; Installer: faster installation, improved languages support and their fonts, fixed a message loop about reiserfs, small tutorial updated, fix for old migrated usernames." Download: elive_3.8.18_beta_hybrid_i386.iso (2,637MB, pkglist). |
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| 2020-09-11 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.8.16 (Beta) |
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Elive, or Enlightenment live CD, is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution and live CD featuring the Enlightenment window manager. The distribution's latest development snapshot is Elive 3.8.16 Beta, which features several package updates and fixes the eltrans translation tool. The release announcement reads: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 3.8.16. This new version includes: Kernel 5.7.10 and updated drivers; Optimizations while installing packages in Live mode; Virtual machines: included feature to configure and remember a specific resolution; WINE improvements for running installed software; SSD/NVME performance improvements by: disabled realtime discards, enabled a safe weekly fstrim job, much faster speeds using now a simpler and efficient scheduler; eltrans, the elive translator tool is working again; Hotkeys PDF shows up with a better user-experience now; document included about how to customize and create your own E16 themes; other fixes: updated tmux compatible configurations, nicotine updates and fixes, Netflix compatibility feature is working again." Download: elive_3.8.16_beta_hybrid_i386.iso (2,560MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-05-19 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.8.20 (Beta) |
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Elive, or Enlightenment live CD, is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution and live CD featuring the Enlightenment window manager. The project's latest development snapshot is Elive 3.8.20 Beta which includes an updated Linux kernel, live mode USB persistence, and fixes an issue related to detecting time zones. "This new version includes: kernel updated to the version 5.10 with some fixes for building extra modules like NVIDIA; desktop fonts much improved for dynamic sizing; persistence with many improvements for saving sessions in Live mode (USB); Cinelerra gg from our own build always updated to their last releases; cairo-dock switched by default to software based rendering for stability and performance; timezones: fixed some issues detecting your timezone; E16 desktop includes some fixes like the iconify gadget to stay in the same location among restarts, and the systray gadget showing correctly the icons." Further details are available in the release announcement. Download (MD5): elive_3.8.20_beta_hybrid_i386.iso (2,789MB, pkglist). |
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| 2020-02-17 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.8.4 (Beta) |
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Elive, or Enlightenment live CD, is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution and live CD featuring the Enlightenment window manager. The project has released a new development snapshot, Elive 3.8.4. The new snapshot is based on Debian 10 "Buster" and includes a number of updates to the kernel and fixes. The project's release announcement states: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 3.8.4. This new version includes: Debian Buster base system updated to the version 10.3. Kernel updated to 5.4.8 and extra drivers updated too. Fixed Thunar notifications issue when ejecting devices. Conky: fixed listing of ram and disk processes, added visual graph for disk usage. elive-upgrader stability improvements. smplayer: fix for subtitles which displayed wrong characters for videos downloaded from youtube-dl. Installer: fixes for NVME disks with automated disk partitioning and encryption, improvements for sharing a home partition. Reiserfs (v3) included back into the installer. Browser extensions enabled by default: ublock-origin to block ADs and annoying publicity’s from websites, and a plugin to download any media file to your computer like YouTube videos, downloads are now automatically set to the default Downloads directory of the users translated directory." The project provides a free 32-bit edition and a commerical 64-bit edition. Download (MD5): elive_3.8.4_beta_hybrid_i386.iso (2,544MB, pkglist). |
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| 2019-12-08 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.8.1 (Beta) |
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Samuel F. Baggen has announced the availability of Elive 3.8.1, a new development snapshot of the project's desktop-oriented distribution based on Debian 10 and featuring the Enlightenment 16 desktop. This is Elive's first release labelled as "beta": "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 3.8.1. This new version includes: system updated to the last Debian 'Buster' base; reduced RAM resources usage; build improvements - these new ISO images include persistence, UEFI and SecureBoot all in a single build, we no longer require the special USB build to have only the persistence feature; language and keyboard improvements and an own tool included; Thunar features - admin mode fixed, the feature to set an image as wallpaper now works with E16 too; browsers updated, Firefox is now available with the Quantum features, Netsurf is included again as an extremely light alternative, Palemoon is available optionally in the repositories; kernel updates in the installed system are more reliable now." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. The 32-bit edition of Elive 3.8.1 is available for free, while the 64-bit variant is a "donationware". Download (MD5) link: elive_3.8.1_alpha_hybrid_i386.iso (2,484MB, pkglist). |
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| 2019-10-07 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.7.14 (Alpha) |
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Elive is a desktop distribution based on Debian. The project has released a new development snapshot based on Debian 10. The new snapshot offers UEFI support, the GNOME Software package manager, and an experimental 64-bit build (which is available at a cost). "After a long time of development, the Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 3.7.14. This new version includes updated to a Debian Buster base, with kernel 5.2.9 and many updated software. Hardware support like UEFI, Secure Boot, nvme disks, optional 64-bit builds. Special dock-bar with multiple features! Audio player directly on desktop with controls and covers. Stability even stronger, like never seen before. Temporary desktop for development based in E16, offering a good and different experience. Customized desktop theme with a dark look design (light / clear design will be added in next versions). GNOME Software is the newly selected GUI application to manage packages, which is much more user friendly for novice users, and all APT tools are still fully available." Note: the website refers to the new development release as a beta, while the ISO file is labelled as an alpha snapshot. Download: elive_3.7.14_alpha_hybrid_i386.iso (2,477MB, pkglist). |
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| 2019-04-29 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Elive 3.0.4 |
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Samuel F. Baggen has announced the availability of a new stable version of Elive, a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian 7 "Wheezy", with a customised Enlightenment 17 desktop. This is likely the last update in the Elive 3 series as the focus of the developer has shifted to the next release which will be based on Debian 10 "Buster". "Elive 3.0 has been updated and it will probably be the last updated build for the 3.0 release. This updated release includes multiple internal improvements that have been developed for the next version of Elive and I backported these improvements to 3.0. There are too many internal code improvements to list all the details but I can at least summarize some important points. Persistence - overall improvements for saving the desktop configurations based on different hardware profiles and improvements for the option to encrypt persistence; Elive Health tool - improvements for the critical temperature detection feature; USB recorder tool - now supports compressed images; Sound - support for PulseAudio in the Elive internal mixer tool, in case the user installs it...." Here is the full release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): elive_3.0.4_stable_hybrid.iso (3,120MB), elive_3.0.4_stable_usb.img (3,259MB). |
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| 2018-12-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Elive 3.0.3 |
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Samuel F. Baggen has announced the release of Elive 3.0.3, an updated build of the project's desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian 7 "Wheezy" and featuring a highly customised Enlightenment 17 desktop: "The major stable release of Elive 3.0 has been updated. We were so pleased with this stable release of Elive and the result has been so amazing that there's almost nothing that needed to be changed from it. It was a truly a rock solid system and we wanted to update it with a slightly updated and polished build which includes: wallpaper - dynamically changes depending of the hour of the day, looking more magical and nicer for your eyes, and it also includes a hidden surprise for Christmas; pop-ups - you won't be annoyed any more by the Hotkeys Document that appears in the desktop startup, we moved it to the launcher bar of applications; desktop - disabled the screen off timeout and the asking for the presentation mode; Flash - updated the Adobe Flash player for common browsers to the last version, tested on Chrome, Firefox and Opera; multiuser - improved the multiple user desktop switching mode compatibility...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download (MD5, pkglist): elive_3.0.3_stable_hybrid.iso (3,114MB), elive_3.0.3_stable_usb.img (3,252MB). |
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| 2018-09-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Elive 3.0.0 |
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Samuel F. Baggen has announced the release of Elive 3.0.0, a major update of the project's Debian-based distribution with a customised Enlightenment 17 desktop user interface. This version is based on the 32-bit variant of Debian 7 "Wheezy" and, unlike the previous stable version (2.0, released more than eight years ago), Elive 3 is free of charge and unlimited in any way: "After 8 years of silent development, the third stable version of Elive is out. The result is simply amazing and the integration is gorgeous; it is not even possible to describe every inside feature. The new website only contains a small portion of its characteristics. Unfortunately not everything is rainbows and perfection and the lack of resources delayed the release being too much. This has lead to old packages and drivers, but despite that, the final result is really worth it. Elive 3.0 is the most useful system ever made, perfect for the daily use, rock solid, beautiful and full of hidden features, with every effort to make it usable for any user level. This version is most powerful, maintaining its lightness in resources and a blazing fast responsiveness. And even better, the final stable version is entirely cost-free and limitless, with all its features." See the release announcement for further information. Download (MD5, pkglist): elive_3.0.0_stable_hybrid.iso (3,133MB), elive_3.0.0_stable_usb.img (3,271MB). |
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| 2018-01-05 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.9.22 (Beta) |
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Elive is a Linux distribution featuring the Enlightenment desktop environment and based on Debian 8.0 "Jessie". The project has released a new development snapshot featuring improved language support for a number of Asian languages and reorganised desktop menus. The release announcement states: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.9.22. This new version includes: Keyboard typing to support special languages like Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese. If you need an extra IBus configuration contact us with the details needed network access to your local machines using hostname.local. Numpad always enabled option in installation. Desktop right click is assigned to an amazing launcher. Designs shadow fix, borders more white, less pixelated icons in menus, much improved menus and user friendly, misc overall improvements. User friendly better organized menus, more friendly icons and names, improved description for the dock launchers." Download the live DVD/USB image from here: elive_2.9.22_beta_hybrid.iso (3,136MB, MD5, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2017-09-01 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.9.8 (Beta) |
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The Elive project is a desktop-oriented, Debian-based operating system. The Elive team has announced the release of a new development snapshot for Elive. The new beta carries the label Elive 2.9.8 and introduces a number of changes to make the system more efficient and convenient. "This new version includes: System: thanks to lots of improvements in the installer you can free up to 3 GB of the installed system and make the memory usage lighter up to 100 MB only, with the full desktop running. User Manager: includes now auto-login features and sudo configuration. Fonts: added a perfect selection of fonts for different purposes, also other ones for programming and small sizes, improved selection of international languages compatibility and removed unneeded ones. Desktop: improved gadgets distribution and compatibility, the disks gadget only shows the removable devices by default now. Installer: lots of bug fixes and improvements, extra options to remove unnecessary things, it supports now SSD over PCIe (nvme) hard disks, blank boot fix, automated partitioning and encryption options improvements, integrated tool to automatically report bugs, better reliability...." Additional details can be found in the distribution's release announcement. Download: elive_2.9.8_beta_hybrid.iso (3,028MB, MD5, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2017-07-20 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.9.5 (Beta) |
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The Elive team have announced the release of a new beta snapshot of the project's Debian-based distribution. Elive 2.9.5 (Beta) introduces a number of bug fixes and visual improvements as well as a new short-cut for vim users. The release announcement lists the new changes: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.9.5 Designs: Great improvements in the designs for the stable release! Overall cleanup, lots of transparent elements, logo animated at start, shadows 3D effect, clock design. Unique features: The borders have now 4 buttons instead of 3, and there's a hidden one that appears if a window cannot be closed. Effects: The visual effects stability is improved specially in the Live mode and there's a fix for the locked desktop when using it. Eltrans: Our translator tool has the counter for translated sentences fixed and there's a fix in the grammar checker. Please be a translator before the stable release! Extra: you can use Ctrl+s in vim to save files now, tagbar feature also recognizes EDC source files which makes them very handy to browse elements!" Download: elive_2.9.5_beta_hybrid.iso (2,996MB, MD5, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2017-03-10 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.8.6 (Beta) |
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The Elive developers have announced the availability of a new beta snapshot of their Debian-based desktop distribution. The new development release, Elive 2.8.6, offers several performance improvements, an updated application menu and easier access to removable media. "This release includes a good amount of performance optimizations, raising the performance in live mode to be twice as fast!, check the entry in our Facebook page to see specific details. There’s also a good amount of boot configurations that improves greatly the performance in old computers too, in a funny way, this version number reminds to a classic computer introduced in 1982 on which a good amount of people has started using computers." The Compiz package has also been updated with stability improvements: "Compiz - improved stability and configurations to have good eye candy in combination with speed and useful features, a very old and important bug was finally fixed making it a stable environment for daily work." Further information can be found in the project's release notes. Download: elive_2.8.6_beta_hybrid.iso (3,069MB, MD5, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2017-02-10 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.8.0 (Beta) |
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The Elive distribution is a Debian-based project featuring the Enlightenment window manager. The project has released a new development version, Elive 2.8.0. The new development release features an improved welcome panel, desktop performance improvements and thumbnail previews for Epub and Mobi document files. "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.8.0. This new version includes: Designs preview feature included. GIMP - much improved with a more intuitive and useful interface, expanded navigation and direct access to handy tools. Fixes in the desktop stability and performance bottleneck that was caused by a small cache. Ebook creator tool from web articles greatly improved(cli). Thumbnails for Epub and Mobi files. Welcome panel with multiple fixes. Timezone and Time compatibility with shared Windows systems and improvements in the detection and re-using of configurations." Additional reading can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: elive_2.8.0_beta_hybrid.iso (2,720MB, MD5, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2016-09-07 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.7.6 (Beta) |
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The Elive project has announced a new beta release of their Debian-based distribution. The new development snapshot, Elive 2.7.6 (beta), includes a welcome panel in the distribution's live mode, offers faster application launches and the default shell has been switched from bash to zsh. "When you run the applications by the first time they take some time to start, for example the chromium browser takes 9.3 seconds, so I was playing with magical voodoo pre-caching techniques and it was improved to be only 3.6 seconds. But because I'm a crazy maniac this was not enough, so I was finally able to make it take only 1.3 seconds, in the same way LibreOffice was taking 18 seconds to start and now takes 1.5 seconds. You can enjoy the speed of light in live mode starting with this version. Remember, we need your feedback; each new beta version could include things not working as expected, if this is the case please contact us so that we can fix the problem." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: elive_2.7.6_beta_hybrid.iso (2,666MB, pkglist). |
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| 2015-11-28 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.6.12 (Beta) |
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Elive 2.6.12, the latest development build of the project's commercial distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and featuring a highly customised Enlightenment desktop, is out and ready for testing: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.6.12. This version includes bug fixes in the installer handling special cases and some improvements in the overall speed process. The desktop has the clock by default included now and there are some improved configurations too. We are still working on the packaging for other architectures like the x86_64 and different distros to keep the updates and fixes more reliable in the future. We need your feedback and reports as each version can include new things that do not work as expected; if this is the case please contact us on our live chat or report it to on the website. Beta versions are not optimized due to debug flags and developer profiles." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_2.6.12_beta_hybrid.iso (2,430MB, MD5). |
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| 2015-09-04 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.6.10 (Beta) |
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A new development build of Elive, a commercial distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and featuring the Enlightenment desktop, is available for testing. Version 2.6.10 comes with a number of important bug fixes: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of beta version 2.6.10. This new version includes: lots of improvements and bug fixes in Enlightenment 17, more precisely 87 commits have been back-ported; shadows for the windows are much improved giving a deeper and three-dimensional feeling for the focused window; important bug fixed for computers that have a broken battery which will not shut down any more or where the power management widget detects the remaining percentage to be zero and triggers the shutdown. We need your feedbacks and reports as each version may include new things that do not work as expected; if this is the case please contact us on our live chat or report it on our website." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_2.6.10_beta_hybrid.iso (2,430MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2015-07-30 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.6.8 (Beta) |
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The developers of Elive, a commercial distribution based on Debian which features the Enlightenment desktop, have released a new test release. Elive 2.6.8 Beta offers better touchpad support, fixes large fonts when using some NVIDIA video cards and makes Zsh the default command line shell. The release announcement contains the following list of changes and improvements: "Huge fonts with NVIDIA cards fixed. Much improved touchpad default configurations. Internet configuration widget is now static in the desktop so the users won't miss it. Zsh shell by default, with a ton of amazing features included, we configured it to keep a maximum compatibility with the bash shell so that the users won't see any difference, if you don't know Zsh think about it like a much more powerful bash shell, it includes a small demo to help have an idea of its powerful features. A lot of fixes in the internal Elive tools. Improved auto-detected configurations. Lots of small fixes and improvements in the installer. Skype audio works again by using ALSA if you run it from the menus." Download: elive_2.6.8_beta_hybrid.iso (2,429MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2015-06-04 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.6.6 (Beta) |
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The developers of Elive, a commercial distribution based on Debian, have announced the availability of Elive 2.6.6. The new test release offers USB 3 support, improved hibernation support and a number of improvements have been made to the distribution's boot loader. "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.6.6 This new version includes: clock improvements - the detection of your timezone and the correct time changing between Windows and Linux are greatly improved; USB 3 - support for USB 3 type of memories included; hibernation - fixes and improvements made, you can hibernate now without problems; installer fixes and improvements - automated partitioning uses the same LUKS + LVM2 setup like the Debian installations, you can also re-use these existing partitions to install Elive; many other fixes - login in TTY's, SSH working by default and recycling configurations from a previously installed system, disabled GRUB menu when only Elive is installed, increased GRUB timeout when the computer has more than one installed system, autologin in the graphical system when the user selects encryption or asked when it is not...." More information on this beta can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: elive_2.6.6_beta_hybrid.iso (2,429MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2015-04-07 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.6.2 (Beta) |
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The Elive development team has announced the launch of a new beta release, Elive 2.6.2. The new beta includes a number of improvements, including a faster installer, improved sound card detection, faster compile times and terminal fonts that are easier to read. The biggest change to appear in the beta may be the option to install proprietary NVIDIA and ATI video drivers. "This version includes the very waited integration of the drivers, when you boot Elive you will find now a dialog that asks you if you want to install the private drivers in the case that is detected in your computer. This option is remembered on the installation making your installed system directly ready with them. Also, they are installed using packages so you can easily reinstall or remove them, but for that we included everything in a simple script tool that you can use to manage your drivers, which allows you to reinstall them or switch between versions, even removing it to move the open source mode which also takes care of the depending xorg.conf file." Further details are available in the project's release announcement. Download: elive_2.6.2_beta_hybrid.iso (2,400MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2015-02-28 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.5.8 (Beta) |
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The seemingly endless development of Elive, a Debian-based distribution with a customised Enlightenment desktop, continues with yet another beta release, version 2.5.8: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.5.8. This new version includes: kernel - much improved optimizations to be smaller, faster, and more optimized, a good amount of patches are also included to improve stability even more; more options to select in the boot process for special machines unable to boot correctly, like some rare Intel cards; touchpad - automated detections and special configurations included; clickpads has the bottom zone disabled so you are not annoyed anymore by having your mouse moving while you click; tap to click - by default Debian does not have this feature enabled but now it works again in Elive, just tap in your touchpad and you will have a click; scrolling - you can scroll vertically and horizontally using two fingers...." Continue to the release announcement for the rest of the changelog. Download: elive_2.5.8_beta_hybrid.iso (2,361MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2015-01-14 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.5.2 (Beta) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.5.2, the latest development release of the distribution that features a customised Enlightenment 17 as its preferred desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of beta version 2.5.2. This new version includes: GIT and SVN integrations into your file-manager; you can now use your iPhone to connect to Internet using the USB cable; improvements in mobile networks as WiMAX, also a wider range of providers for 3G/HSDPA is included; command-not-found feature included now in your shell; default applications assigned to file types are much improved now; Debian packages updated to 7.8; new applications selected- Sound Juicer, IPTraf, Nmap, traceroute." Here is the full release announcement. Interested beta testers can download the live DVD image from here: elive_2.5.2_beta_hybrid.iso (2,322MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2014-12-19 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.5.0 (Beta) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.5.0, the latest build in the long line of development releases that characterise this Debian-based distribution with Enlightenment 17: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of beta version 2.5.0. This new version includes: Linux kernel optimizations - CK2 (Con Kolivas patches) with the BFS (Brain F@#k Scheduler) and BFQ (Budget Fair Queueing) set by default, they improve desktop interactivity and hard disk I/O; updated version 3.16.7 of the Linux kernel to include the new CKT patches that includes many of bug fixes; much more friendly way to know who and where you are in your terminal; much better integration of Dropbox in the file manager; an amazing tool called git-watcher is now in Elive; fixed a message in the boot process about a glib warning." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details and notes from the developer. Download the live DVD image from here: elive_2.5.0_beta_hybrid.iso (2,270MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2014-11-01 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.4.0 (Beta) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.4.0, a new beta of the Debian-based distribution with a customised Enlightenment 17 desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.4.0. This new version includes: new Linux kernel 3.16; Reiser4 (stable version) officially included in the installer; Terminology 0.7.0; included tutorial by Yann Esposito about learning to use Vim superpowers. This version of Elive includes officially Reiser4 (with all known bugs fixed) - you can enjoy an extremely fast system by using the LZO real-time compression mode, which makes your data use less space on your hard disk. This is good for people who want to save space on their hard disks, but it also makes your hard disk mechanism require less space to travel when reading the data. This means that your hard disk will become magically double fast or even three times faster." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download: elive_2.4.0_beta_hybrid.iso (2,240MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2014-10-18 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.3.9 (Beta) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.3.9, the latest development build of the project's Debian-based distribution that features a customised Enlightenment desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.3.9. This new version includes: Vim suite pre-configured with the best plugins and features available, keeping it fast and full-featured; important fixes in the installer - screen turned blank during installation process fixed, GRUB bootloader fixes and improvements, fixes on upgrade-mode, configurations are run in a detachable tmux now; fix for Thunar that blocked when creating a new file; Bash security fix included. Notes from the developers: Vim - we have finally shipped a default configuration for Vim full of the best plugins and features; we have put it directly in the user's home so the user is able to reconfigure it, we hope you enjoy this selection of the best vim features." Here is the full release announcement. Download: elive_2.3.9_beta_hybrid.iso (2,165MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2014-09-24 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.3.6 (Beta) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.3.6, the latest development build of the distribution featuring a customised Enlightenment desktop, based on Debian 7.0: "Elive 2.3.6 beta released. This new version includes: configured network connections are now persistent on reboot for USB images; improved USB bootable image by creating a separate partition, this fixes the issue with USB images not booting on some rare computers; Elive now boots with an amazing splash theme; improved the listing of kernels on the boot screen; added MemTest86 to the boot screen; using SSH between Elive computers is now much faster. Note that this development release doesn't yet include the proprietary drivers (NVIDIA/ATI) for now, but the open-source drivers should detect your hardware and configure your system without problems." Here is the brief release announcement. Interested beta testers can download the new live DVD image from here: elive_2.3.6_beta_hybrid.iso (2,219MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2014-08-16 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.3.5 (Beta) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.3.5, a new development build of the Debian-based distribution featuring a customised Enlightenment desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of beta version 2.3.5 This new version includes: EFL (Enlightenment libraries) are updated to beta version 1.11; darktable and LibreCAD applications are included by default; Nightingale is now available in the repositories; right-clicking on a PDF in the file manager will now give you the option to shrink it; interactive git shortcuts for the shell; users' home directories are now in their default languages; improvements have been made to tmux when using it with SSH; improved microphone detection with Skype. We appreciate your feedback and reports; you can find us on the live chat most of the time!" Here is the brief release announcement. Download link: elive_2.3.5_beta_hybrid.iso (2,216MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2014-07-24 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.3.4 (Beta) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.3.4, the latest beta version from the project that builds a Debian-based distribution with a customised Enlightenment desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.3.4. This new version includes: a send-to-Dropbox option has been added to the file manager; right-clicking on a movie in the file manager will now give you the option to get the subtitle; applications menu has been redesigned to be more intuitive; laptop WiFi switch now works properly on re-activation; keyboard hotkeys for volume and mute control are now configured automatically. We appreciate your feedbacks and reports, you can found us on the live chat most of the times! Note that this development release doesn't include yet the proprietary drivers for now (NVIDIA/ATI) but the open-source drivers should detect your hardware and configure your system without problems." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_2.3.4_beta_hybrid.iso (2,074MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2014-06-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.3.0 (Beta) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.3.0, the latest unstable build of a distribution that delivers a customised Enlightenment desktop experience on top of a stable Debian base: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.3.0. This new version includes: updated Linux kernel to 3.14 with Reiser4 patch, including a much wider range of WiFi and audio card drivers for newer computers; backports for VirtualBox, NVIDIA and ATI drivers; Enlightenment has a much more friendly menu of applications now; Debian security repository is included by default; new games included - Super Mario War and some 'game and watch' simulators; Elive installer includes fixes for migration mode, global languages configuration, keymap in console, audio configuration improvements; more unique features included in the installer." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_2.3.0_beta_hybrid.iso (2,086MB, MD5). |
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| 2014-06-07 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.2.6 (Beta) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.2.6, the new development build of a distribution that delivers a customised Enlightenment window manager on top of a stable Debian base: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.2.6. This new version includes the following changes: the installer has been tested during the last two weeks where, thanks to all the volunteers, many bug fixes were made real-time using IRC at #elive; the installer is now ready for normal usage; upgrade mode of the installer is now implemented, it's good for upgrading previous versions of Elive; bugs fixed in the installer include permissions, audio, mounting media, login to graphical system, end-user configurations, end-user home folders in different languages and much more. We appreciate your feedbacks and reports, you can found us on the live chat most of the times!" Here is the brief release announcement. Download from here: elive_2.2.6_beta_hybrid.iso (1,863MB, MD5). |
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| 2014-05-17 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.2.2 (Beta) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.2.2, the latest development version from a project that focuses on delivering a customised Enlightenment window manager on top of a stable Debian base: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.2.2. The new Elive installer is ready in beta mode and it includes: normal installation; automatic partitioning using optimal settings; automatic update of the installer with fixed bugs if there's a newer version available; checks for hard disk speeds, BIOS clock, partitions alignment, SSD optimizations; much improved mount and partition management included in the Elive tools framework; guided help during the installation process. What is not ready: upgrade mode (from a previous install of Elive). What is not tested: migration mode (from another Linux system)." Here is the brief release announcement. Download link: elive_2.2.2_beta_hybrid.iso (1,882MB, MD5). |
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| 2014-03-07 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.2.1 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.2.1, the new development build of the Debian-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment 0.17 desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.2.1. This new version includes: powerline patched fonts added and set by default; EXFAT file system supported by default, so you can use newer Windows-formatted and OS X-compatible USBs without problems; M4A format is now supported in massive-audio-converter tool; Terminology is now the default and full-working terminal; improved color palette and visibility of main elements in Terminology. We also want to introduce a new (in beta state) website where people can collaborate with Elive; you can found it on the menus of the website." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Interested beta testers can download the latest Elive from here: elive_2.2.1_alpha_hybrid.iso (1,790MB, MD5). |
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| 2014-01-21 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.1.58 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.1.58, the latest development build of the Debian-based distribution featuring a customised Enlightenment 0.17 desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.1.58. This new version includes: Debian packages updated to their 7.3 release; when users access an NTFS-formatted disk, they are warned about possible instability; improved the image-resizing tool, which includes adding more resolutions and a smart automatic resize calculator; improved the audio converter tool - it will now give better accuracy in quality for a smaller file size. We appreciate your feedback on performance and resources usage of this beta version compared to the last stable release. Note that this development release doesn’t include an installer because it is not yet ready." Here is the brief release announcement. Those who'd like to help with testing can download the latest Elive from here: elive_2.1.58_alpha_hybrid.iso (1,741MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-12-20 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.1.57 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has released Elive 2.1.57, an updated development build of the project's Debian-based distribution with a highly customised Enlightenment 0.17 desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.1.57. This new version includes: updated Enlightenment to 0.17.5 with lots of fixes; massive Randr backports; screen setup now works better for dual-screen users; the default editor Scite now has a lot of improved features and configuration; included default configurations for tmux with commented examples. We appreciate your feedbacks about the differences in performance and resources usage of the beta versions compared to the last stable one. Note that this development release doesn't include an installer because it is not yet ready." See the full release announcement for further notes. Interested beta testers can download the new development release of Elive from here: elive_2.1.57_alpha_hybrid.iso (1,729MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-06-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.1.52 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has released an updated development build of Elive, version 2.1.52, a Debian-based distribution featuring a customised Enlightenment 0.17 desktop user interface: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.52. This version includes some miscellaneous features, such as: automated cooling for newer Intel CPUs by decreasing the CPU clock when the temperature gets high; Vim colorscheme changed to elive an own colorscheme that focuses on intuitiveness; Internet configurator now automatically pops up with a list of available connections; Enlightenment 17 fix - language and keyboard are not correctly saved; Enlightenment 17 fix - application menu no longer freezes your environment." Read the complete release announcement for further information and bug reporting options. Download the live DVD image (with no hard disk installer) from here: elive_2.1.52_alpha_hybrid.iso (1,621MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-05-28 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.1.42 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has released an updated development build of Elive, version 2.1.42, a Debian-based distribution with a highly customised Enlightenment 0.17 window manager: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.42. This version includes some miscellaneous features like: bug fixes in the automatic date and time configuration; if you move to another country it is automatically detected and your time is updated to the new location; updated firmwares to support a wider range of WiFi and other devices; automatic detection of LVM devices inside encrypted file systems; fixed a bug with thumblerd process which can sometimes block devices from unmounting. ... We would appreciate feedback about Composite enabled or disabled in old computers, suggestions for better performances and memory usage." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_2.1.42_alpha_hybrid.iso (1,616MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-05-06 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.1.40 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.1.40, a new development build of the project's Debian-based live DVD featuring a customised Enlightenment window manager: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.40. This version includes some miscellaneous features, such as: updated to the stable release of Debian 'Wheezy'; Engage now works much better with composite and non-composite modes; noop scheduler configured by default for SSD disks if they are detected; updated to the last terminology version 0.3; newly-added online applications include Khan Academy, TEDx and Code School which is a friendly way to introduce and teach programming languages; improved auto-detection of user's language. Note that these development releases don't include the Elive Installer yet because it isn't ready." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_2.1.40_alpha_hybrid.iso (1,494MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-04-17 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.1.37 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has released a new development build of Elive, version 2.1.37, a desktop Linux distribution integrating the lightweight Enlightenment window manager with the "testing" branch of Debian GNU/Linux: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.37. This version includes some miscellaneous new features like: automatic language and time zone configurations based on your physical location; Enlightenment updated to the new released version with lots of bug fixes; Enlightenment improvements in the automated positioning of windows in the desktop; suspend ready; fixed an important bug in the Enlightenment menus; fixed a bug with Intel cards when the screen is blanking. We appreciate your feedback about the overall speed and lightness of the system compared to last stable version of Elive." See the full release announcement for more information. Download: elive_2.1.37_alpha_hybrid.iso (1,381MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-03-29 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.1.33 (Unstable) |
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Elive 2.1.33, a new development built of the desktop Linux distribution that integrates Debian GNU/Linux with the Enlightenment window manager, has been released for testing: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.33. This version includes some miscellaneous features like: Google Talk plugin included, you can now do calls with voice and video; much improved way to connect to the Internet, with sorting by signal and a complete set of features for any need; improved Elive tools, with detection of your city and time zones without requiring a GPS; Enlightenment 0.17 fixes for keyboard, GL detection and Night mode. We appreciate your feedback about the overall speed and lightness of the system compared to the last stable version of Elive." Here is the brief release announcement. Download from here: elive_2.1.33_alpha_hybrid.iso (1,381MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-03-07 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.1.32 (Unstable) |
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Elive 2.1.32, a new development built of the desktop Linux distribution that focuses on integrating Debian GNU/Linux with the Enlightenment window manager, has been released for testing: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.32. This version includes miscellaneous features like: completed redesign of the Focus system; special mode for Enlightenment 17 called night reading, which inverts the colors of your screen, making the reading much more comfortable; created another mode called sleep, which turns your computer off in a specific time of the day or in a countdown value, configurable for each day and with different types of halting; moved from xine to VLC for playing DVDs; integrated compatibility of different file managers with the default one; Zenity sizes of the box fixed." Read the full release announcement for more details. Download: elive_2.1.32_alpha_hybrid.iso (1,360MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-01-28 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.1.27 (Unstable) |
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A new public development release of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring a highly customised Enlightenment 0.17 desktop, is out and ready for testing: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.27. This version includes some miscellaneous features like: multiple improvements in Enlightenment 0.17 and start-up configurations; persistence feature where you can save your data in live mode; better list of languages supported with their required fonts; Elive now supports more languages than before; audio card features including better recognition, improved volumes, microphone working by default for applications like Skype; now using syslinux to boot the ISO images, this greatly increases the number of computers Elive can boot on; included new WINE version 1.5.22 to support a wider range of Windows applications." See the full release announcement for further information. Download: elive_2.1.27_alpha.iso (1,260MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-01-13 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.1.23 (Unstable) |
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After nearly three years without a release, the Elive project, which develops a Debian-based distribution and live CD featuring the latest Enlightenment 0.17 desktop, has suddenly sprung to life with an early development release: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.23. We are very excited to announce this first development version of Elive and there are many reasons why we are excited. First, we want to remind you that the reason why nothing has been published yet about Elive is that there were a few things to be rewritten to ensure an overall stable system, which will make other programs more compatible and ensures this version works well. New ISO images can be built everyday. Secondly, we have amazing new features coming, compared to the last version of Elive, 2.0 'Topaz'." Read the rest of the release announcement to find out more. Download: elive_2.1.23_alpha.iso (1,197MB, MD5). |
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| 2010-03-04 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Elive 2.0 |
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After a long development period lasting more than two years, Samuel Baggen announced today the release of Elive 2.0, a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution featuring an optimised Enlightenment 17 window manager with plenty of desktop eye candy: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the Stable version 2.0 Codename Topaz. The new stable version of Elive has a huge list of improvements. Its ease of use makes it suitable for any kind of user along with a totally new Linux experience for those who have not tried Elive before. Changelog: autolaunchers - entirely rewritten with better stability and more features; user configurators - many user configurators added to configure anything; drivers - Linux kernel 2.6.30.9 with support for special hardware and other features like TuxOnIce (hibernation), Reiser4FS, ext4...." Visit the distribution's updated home page and read the detailed changelog for further information. Download: elive_2.0_Topaz_new-kernel.iso (690MB, MD5).
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| 2010-02-03 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.60 (Unstable) |
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A new development version of Elive, a live CD featuring a customised Enlightenment 17 window manager based on Debian stable, has been released: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.60. We are very close to the next stable version of Elive 2.0. These are the last development versions coming so you are more than welcome to report bugs now. If you are an Elive translator this is the moment to finish all the remaining messages to be translated. Changes: an entirely different system rewritten for auto-launchers containing features which are more handy and less annoying, entirely configurable; Touchpad configurator added; added a new driver for CD-ROM drives needed to boot into live mode; misc bugs fixed, features added, and a few informative messages added; Linux kernel version 2.6.30." Read the release announcement here. Download the live CD image from here: elive_1.9.60_unstable.iso (687MB, MD5).
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| 2010-01-08 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.56 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has released a new development build of Elive, a live CD featuring a customised Enlightenment 17 window manager based on Debian stable: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.56. Changes: 3G phones - more than 300 new operators added; Internet module - if you connect with a 3G phone, the configuration will be saved and you can set it to automatically connect at boot; Icedove - when installing Icedove, it contains by default a very nice-looking Elive-style template; Flash updated to version 10.0.42.34; installer - some fixes regarding the boot of Windows systems; Linux kernel version 2.6.30. Note that this is a development version." Read the brief release announcement here. Download the live CD image from here: elive_1.9.56_unstable.iso (681MB, MD5).
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| 2009-12-24 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.54 (Unstable) |
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The regular bi-weekly updates to Elive, a Debian-based desktop distribution featuring a highly customised Enlightenment 17 desktop, continue with the release of unstable version 1.9.54: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.9.54." What's new? "ElPanel removed, all its features are moved elsewhere, it is more user-friendly now, but if you like ElPanel you can still install it; some Enlightenment 17 modules added, also, you can now configure the start-up sound and elive-news features; NVIDIA - if you use nvida-settings to configure a dual-monitor setup by generating an xorg.conf, you can recover your keyboard configuration; kernel version 2.6.30. Note that this is a development version." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_1.9.54_unstable.iso (679MB, MD5).
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| 2009-12-13 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.52 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the availability of a new development release of Elive, version 1.9.52, a Debian-based distribution featuring the latest build of the Enlightenment 17 desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.9.52." Changes since Elive 1.9.51: "Enlightenment 17 modules - a new set of Enlightenment 17 modules for Elive, they are found in the features category of the Enlightenment 17 Preferences; Trayer moved to the system tray of Enlightenment 17; Bluetooth featured on the fly; power manager featured for laptops; MSN - aMSN replaced by emesene for now due to resources and stability reasons; Linux kernel version 2.6.30. Note that this is a development version." Here is the brief release announcement. Those interested in helping to test the release can download the live CD image from here: elive_1.9.52_unstable.iso (681MB, MD5).
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| 2009-10-23 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.51 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has released a new development build of Elive, a Debian-based live CD with Enlightenment 17: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.9.51." What's new? "Compressed file system - if you have a computer with a tiny hard disk (like Eee PC 2 GB SSD), you can now install Elive using a compressed file system so that the entire system will fit in 1 GB; shared folders implementation with extra fixes and features; no CD required - there is no need to burn the ISO on a CD-ROM anymore, you can easily install or reinstall by simply pointing to the ISO image on the hard drive and reboot; VPN extra support; 'toram' - feature fixed; OSS - audio extra support (good for games); Catalan - option from the boot selector fixed; Linux kernel version 2.6.30." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_1.9.51_unstable.iso (684MB, MD5).
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| 2009-09-22 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.44 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has released a new development build of Elive, version 1.9.44, a distribution and live CD featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 and based on the stable Debian GNU/Linux 5.0: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.44. Changes: live CD - improved detection of partitions; RAM - Memtest86+ updated to version 2.11 with more features and special support for Intel Core 2 Duo computer processors; installer - work on installer to manage mounts and umounts better, but please report any problems that you may encounter with the installer on the IRC channel; Linux kernel version 2.6.26.8 (revision 41). Note that this is a development version." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_1.9.44_unstable.iso (692MB, MD5).
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| 2009-09-04 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.42 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the availability of Elive 1.9.42 "Compiz" edition, an updated development build of the Debian-based distribution focusing on tweaking Enlightenment 17 into an efficient and usable desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of Elive development version 1.9.42 (Compiz)." New features in this release: "3g-dialer - if you want to connect to the Internet from your 3G/HDSPA modem, you can use the 3g-dialer (it even supports PIN code); Thunar - more features have been added, specially for images and audio files, using right-click with a mouse; SSH - using SSH will allow you to have direct access to Enlightenment remote features (if the remote user is also running E17); aMSN - new chat sessions won't open in separate windows; slamr - the bug seems to have been fixed; Linux kernel version 2.6.26.8 (revision 41)." Here is the full release announcement. Download: elive_1.9.42_unstable.iso (694MB, MD5).
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| 2009-06-24 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.31 (Unstable) |
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The development of Elive 2.0 continues at a furious pace with another development build announced today. What's new? "USB Live - a tool to make a USB stick an Elive bootable live system; Acer Aspire One - perfectly supported, also with a special tool to disable the fan when not needed (very noisy in the bed); Flash updated to the version 10.0.22.87; better characters for the console mode, more languages supported, smaller font size for console; audio player - we have finally moved from XMMS to Audacious; Russian support is now fixed; miscellaneous installer fixes, specially for those who wanted to use the upgrade mode with a dedicated /home partition, this feature is working again...." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download: elive_1.9.31_unstable.iso (679MB, MD5).
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| 2009-06-12 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.29 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has released Elive 1.9.29 "Compiz" edition, a new development build of the Debian-based live CD featuring Enlightenment 17 with 3D desktop effects: "The Elive team is proud to announce the development release of Elive Compiz, version 1.9.29. Work is being focused on improving the next stable release of Elive 2.0, yet we are glad to have available an improved Compiz edition of Elive. Changes: big rewrite of hibernation support in Elive, with many extras, such as cleanup of old hibernated partitions; many bug fixes and features in the installer; fixed broken messages (dialog boxes) during boot in live mode; a simple webcam viewer has been added to video menu of applications; improved 3D acceleration of Intel graphics cards; the Compiz cube effect works again...." Read the full release announcement for a more complete changelog. Download: elive_1.9.29-compiz_unstable.iso (686MB, MD5).
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| 2009-06-01 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.28 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has released a new development build of Elive, a Debian-based distribution and live CD featuring the latest Enlightenment 17: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.28. What's new? Partitions - better detection and listing of the partitions for the live mode and the installer, if you encounter any problems, please report it; RAID - now the fake-hardware (featured by the motherboard BIOS) RAID disks are supported, a small help about RAID (software mode) is added to the installer describing how to install Elive on RAID devices; MacBooks - we have switched from LILO to GRUB, in the previous versions of Elive you saw that sometimes the system didn't boot anymore after running the fine-tune step because of some problems with LILO; Installer - the development is now all concentrated on the installer, with a large number of minor bug fixes and features." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_1.9.28_unstable.iso (684MB, MD5).
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| 2009-05-15 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.27 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has released a new development build of Elive, a Debian-based live CD featuring the Enlightenment 17 desktop. This version includes Compiz desktop effects. From the release announcement: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of Elive development (Compiz) version 1.9.27. This is a major update for the Compiz series of Elive. Changes: instead of configuring Compiz from ECSM, you can now do it from a module; the cube is disabled by default due to its instability compared to the wall mode; not that the switcher (window switcher) of Compiz is ugly, but it's a bit annoying while the default switcher of E17 is a lot more powerful, configurable, and stable, so we use it as default now (it is still accessed by pressing the Win key plus the Tab key). Note: remember that these are the default configurations, you can change them to your taste!" Download the live CD from here: elive_1.9.27-compiz_unstable.iso (686MB, MD5).
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| 2009-04-28 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.26 (Unstable) |
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Samuel Baggen has released a new development build of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.26. Changes: NVIDIA and ATI - when you upgrade the kernel package and modules, you will broke your NVIDIA/ATI drivers except if you update or install or remove any requirement manually, this problem is solved in this version by holding ALL the kernel and driver packages (and GLX packages); accelerated boot - a bit more accelerated boot of the live system by sorting the files of the file system in the CD-ROM structure by their access order; practical things - convert any audio file to MP3 or OGG format by right-clicking on them in the file manager." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download: elive_1.9.26_unstable.iso (682MB, MD5).
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| 2009-03-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.24 (Unstable) |
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A new development version of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 desktop, has been released for testing: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.24. Updates: we have finished synchronizing the repositories using the new Debian 'Lenny'; updated Enlightenment 17 with new features; the new optimized file system, Reiser4fs, is available as a kernel module; Scite is again the default editor; Thunar previews Flash videos; MPlayer - some changes that include a fix of an annoying pop-up message when using some audio cards, and some hot keys added for the non-GUI mode; removed old Thunar auto-launchers; better touchpad sensitivity on MacBooks...." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download: elive_1.9.24_unstable.iso (679MB, MD5).
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| 2008-11-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.18 (Unstable) |
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The Elive project continues its rapid release cycle of development builds that will eventually lead to Elive 2.0. The latest version is 1.9.18: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.18. This version includes a greatly improved new kernel and a lot of upgraded packages. Changes: Network Configurator is now perfectly usable and stable; Firefox bookmarks have been updated with new entries - a good list of GIMP links and tutorials, a big list of articles about Elive since its first version, and also some about EFL development; Linux kernel updated to version 2.6.26.8; all the currently available wireless drivers have been added, including the newest ath9k for Atheros cards; the bug about the WEP encryption in MacBooks has been finally solved using the new ath9k driver included on this kernel." Read the complete release announcement for further information. Download: elive_1.9.18_unstable.iso (680MB, MD5).
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| 2008-11-12 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.15 (Unstable) |
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The Elive development team has announced the availability of a new development build of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring Enlightenment 17 as its preferred desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of Elive development version 1.9.15. This version includes better support for MacBooks and a much better network configuration tool. MacBooks - the MacBook support has been overhauled, fixing some bugs like the installation and the webcam support. Wireless and networking - our new application to configure networks called Net-Connector is in a pretty good shape. All the known bugs are fixed and the auto-connect mode seems to be working properly. Since there are no known remaining bugs on it, we invite you to find new ones." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_1.9.15_unstable.iso (673MB, MD5).
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| 2008-10-17 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.10 |
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Version 1.9.10 is the latest test release of Elive, a Debian-based distribution with a heavily customised Enlightenment 17 desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.10. This version doesn't include Exalt (a network configuration tool) any more, but there is a new application in Elpanel. Ibar is replaced by Itask-ng - Elive now has a zooming bar similar to the one in Mac OS X. It also has another feature enabled by default - 'lock icons', which prevents the user from removing icons accidentally. Vim color scheme hacks - the default color theme of Elive has been hacked for better development and coding. PDF printer - it is now possible to create PDFs from a page, document, or anything just by selecting to print to a PDF file in the printer menu. Networks - this version includes a new application called net-connector for configuring WiFi and wired connections." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download: elive_1.9.10_unstable.iso (673MB, MD5).
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| 2008-09-22 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.9.02 (Unstable) |
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Testing of the next major version of Elive continues with the newly released build 1.9.02: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.02. The improvement of Elive for the next stable release is proceeding smoothly, also profiting from the upcoming release of Debian. All that is needed now is to finish implementing a few more things, do the needed stability tests, and add more applications to the new translation system. This version includes: terminal - fixed a bug which made the terminal unreadable; special support for Happy Hacking Keyboards (pro2); Thunar now shows thumbnails of RAW images with a newly added special feature that works regardless of format and model of the camera used; installer - upgrade mode, migration mode...." Read the complete release announcement for further details. Download: elive_1.9.02_unstable.iso (681MB, MD5).
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| 2008-09-11 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.8.8 (Unstable) |
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Elive, another distribution catering to users who prefer the Enlightenment window manager, has reached development version 1.8.8: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.8.8. This version solves two important problems found in the previous version: an annoying mouse bug and a network configuration bug. Changes: 'changedevice' boot option allows changing device during the boot process; hotkeys - the mute key now works; E17 updated to the last version from Subversion, now some modules like battery, temperature and CPU frequency are enabled only if hardware supports it; Thunar can now preview XCF (GIMP native format) images and Nintendo DS ROMs; auto-mounters - mount and umount devices from Thunar; kernel updated to version 2.6.25.16...." More details in the release announcement. Download: elive_1.8.8_unstable.iso (681MB, MD5).
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| 2008-08-22 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.8.4 (Unstable) |
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A new development build of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 desktop, is available for testing: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.8.4. This version has some important fixes: fast boot mode removed - it is not really useful since it is not possible to accelerate the boot for generic machines; Linux kernel - back to the old mode configuration, if you had problems booting the previous version of Elive, your system should boot with this one; drivers - added 2 new branches of Ralink drivers that are needed for the Eee PC model 1000H; VFAT - fixed a small bug that caused the /mnt/Windows_C partition to not mount by default; installer translated to Spanish; enhanced menus support for Windows applications; E17 Annoying bug with the mouse temporarily fixed with a downgrade." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: elive_1.8.4_unstable.iso (686MB, MD5).
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| 2008-08-09 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.8.2 (Unstable) |
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The Elive development team has released an updated unstable version of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 window manager: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of a much improved development version of Elive. This version includes a new installer with better and more user-friendly features. Other improvements: includes Firefox 3 with many nice features; the version of the Linux kernel 2.6.24.7 is updated with a better configuration for IDE, SATA and SCSI chipsets, so it should work on more computers; the MadWiFi driver updated with new HAL version, the newest Atheros cards are supported now; some changes to the hibernation method, it should work on more computers; implemented an auto-eject system; Qt/KDE application available for installation...." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: elive_1.8.2_unstable.iso (691MB, MD5).
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| 2008-07-11 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.7.10 (Unstable) |
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A new development version of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment 17 window manager, has been released: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.7.10. This release includes: Prism2: better prism2* wireless cards support. Flash: Macromedia Flash small update. Xorg: Xorg updates + a lot of fixes in Elive configurations of Xorg, some for Nvidia. e17: Some e17 gadgets configured on the fly. So for instance, if your computer supports cpufreq, that gadget is added automatically. Same with battery. If your computer does NOT support these features, the gadgets will not be added :). Drivers: New drivers added for: gigabit-ethernet Atheros cards, Fujistu Siemens Amilo M7400 laptop modules, HP Omnibook Pavillon, Toshiba Satellite, and some laptops manufactured by Compal Electronics, Ricoh R5u870 webcams supported, 'quickcam messenger' webcams supported too, 10-gigabit-ethernet Solarflare (solarstorm SFC4000) cards. ATI: fglrx updated to version 8.6. Nvidia: nvidia updated to version 173.14.09." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: elive_1.7.10_unstable.iso (672MB, MD5).
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| 2008-06-10 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.7.7 (Unstable) |
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A new development version of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment 17 window manager, has been released: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.7.7. This release includes: Bluetooth - if a Bluetooth device is detected on your computer during the boot process, you will 'automagically' have a Bluetooth applet in your tray; notifications on the desktop - messages about miscellaneous events, e.g. Bluetooth PIN codes; X.Org - touchpad is re-enabled again, configurator of the graphical mode scans hard disk for possible configurations to use; ATI - some bugs were found with the fglrx driver in Elive, it should work now, but we still need your reports if something does not work correctly." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: elive_1.7.7_unstable.iso (699MB, MD5).
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| 2008-05-27 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.7.5 (Unstable) |
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A new development build of Elive, a Debian-based live CD featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 window manager, was released today: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.7.5. This version includes an updated kernel and some other things. Changelog: updated kernel to version 2.6.24.7; big workaround in the graphical configurations suite for the boot process; added a menu that asks what you want to do after finishing a graphical session; some bug fixes, such as fixing black screen in an NVIDIA model card; added support for a special Intel audio card; fixed a problem with selecting the 3D-accelerated NVIDIA driver found in the previous version; MadWiFi now supports a new Atheros wireless card model (the same one used in EeePC); added boot parameter 'nobluetooth'." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_1.7.5_unstable.iso (691MB, MD5).
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| 2008-05-04 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.7.2 (Unstable) |
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An updated development build of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment window manager, is out and ready for testing: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.7.2 This release contains support for b43 WiFi cards, a trayer, and a lot more things. Details: this is the preliminary version of improved menus, they are better organized now, with more sections, and they should show any application that the user installs; b43 wireless cards (bcm43xx) are better supported, with a configuration wizard that asks whether to use NDISwrapper or a native Linux driver; Enlightenment 17 updated and configuration improved; more virtual desktops are included by default; the segfault bug in the pager is fixed; Tray - first implementation of a trayer in Elive; the Elive User Guide is updated (and translated to German); terminal and Vim have improved functionality and looks." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: elive_1.7.2_unstable.iso (662MB, MD5).
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| 2008-04-21 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.7 (Unstable) |
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A new development build of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment window manager, is out and ready for testing: "After many silent weeks and relentless testing by our tireless users of the 1.6 and 1.6.2 development releases, we have now reached 1.7! This is a full-featured version of Elive with some long-awaited features working out-of-the-box: E17 menus ready; suspend and hibernation are now implemented by default; in the boot options of the live mode the language selector menu is enabled by default again; a new tool to make translations in Elive called 'eltrans'; eject CD fixed in the live mode; auto-launchers: have been re-implemented; printer issues hopefully fixed (new front-end); switched to ESU, EFL version of Gksu; Elpanel also got a few updates." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download: elive_1.7_unstable.iso (659MB, MD5).
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| 2008-03-07 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.6 (Unstable) |
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A new development release of Elive is out and ready for testing: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.6." What's new? "New improved boot system in live mode; Icedove 2.0; much better disk and partition recognition; CDs can eject without being unmounted first; Eltrans, the new translation tool; resolution selector re-enabled temporarily; Eee PC modules for ACPI support; miscellaneous improved Windows support functions; WiFi widget called Exalt works again; special edition of Elive for MacBooks will be implemented as normal Elive, this is the first compatible ISO image; Elive now uses a new prompt (the default line that appears in the terminal) with more features. Note that this is a development version, it is not ready for installation on a production machine." Read the full release announcement for further information. Download: elive_1.6_development.iso (622MB, MD5).
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| 2008-01-23 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.5.0 (Unstable) |
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The Elive development team has announced the release of Elive 1.5.0, a new unstable build of the Debian-based distribution: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the new development version 1.5. This is a very experimental Elive. The boot system is entirely rewritten, working but not finished. Many auto-detection and configuration parts are not implemented yet. This version is not ready to be installed, this is a release for testers and collaborators who want to discuss it at the Elive testers group. Changes: updated to Debian 'testing'; Elive installer - option to 'migrate' configuration from installed Linux system; more special hotkeys for laptops working by default; Firefox - a nice feature that shows thumbnails of sites in Google search; a more integrated system of translations." Here is the full release announcement. Download: elive_1.5_very_unstable.iso (698MB, MD5).
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| 2007-12-15 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.2.3 (Unstable) |
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A new development build of Elive, version 1.2.3, is ready for testing: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.2.3. This version of Elive includes even more stability and usability of the live CD mode, especially when you install applications or do a lot of stuff on it. We have also switched to a newer 2.6.23.9 kernel while we wait the final release of 2.6.24 that Elive is going to use. The installer includes many useful and innovative new features that permit you to convert any Linux OS to an Elive system. If you have another Linux installation on the partition where you want to install Elive, Elive automates the process by saving all your users, files, passwords, and minor system configurations. Note that this feature at the moment only works on systems that use a separate /home partition." Here is the full release announcement. Download: elive_1.2.3_unstable.iso (667MB, MD5).
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| 2007-11-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 1.0.2 (Unstable) |
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The Elive development team has announced the release of Elive 1.0.2, a new unstable version of the Debian-based desktop distribution: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.0.2. The big change is the switch to the greatly anticipated new version of Enlightenment 17. Users can now get themes, backgrounds and animated icons from get-e.org and other places. Here is an excerpt from the changelog: audio - multiple simultaneous sound sources; aMSN - better configuration system; login sound changed; some applications updated; option to install other window managers (KDE, GNOME, etc) and have them available in the login manager directly; option to install applications and have them show directly on the menus; boot from external devices...." Here is the full release announcement. Download: elive_1.0.2_unstable_2007-11-25.iso (657MB, MD5).
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| 2007-08-30 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.9 Beta 9 "MacBook" |
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A new beta release of Elive 0.9 MacBook edition is now available for testing: "A beta release of Elive (9th development release) for MacBooks, based on Gem, has just been uploaded. Features include: the installer is now included and working; wireless - working well with experimental MadWiFi driver, WEP needs to be tested; IR remote control - works perfectly and with pre-defined actions; backlight and volume keys - work by pressing the 'Fn' key in conjunction with the backlight or volume keys; kernel optimized for MacBooks and patched for special hardware elements; games - Neverball is a very addictive 3D platform marble game, but on this version of Elive you can use the laptop to interact with the platform of the game." Read the release announcement and visit the distribution's features page for more details. Download: Elive_0.9-b9_Macbooks.iso (667MB, MD5).
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| 2007-08-03 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.9 Beta "MacBook" |
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A MacBook edition of Elive, a distribution featuring the Enlightenment desktop, has been released for testing: "The first version of Elive for MacBooks, with the installer ready to install, is out." Some of the interesting features include: "WebCam: working well, but only with applications that use v4l2; audio: multi-audio system working, you can watch YouTube in between music and video playing on other desktops; wireless: working well with experimental MadWiFi driver; IR remote control: works perfectly and with predefined actions; backlight and volume keys: work by pressing the key Fn in conjunction with the backlight or volume keys; kernel optimized for MacBooks and patched for special hardware; other hardware: Bluetooth, iPod, Firewire, USB, DVD... all working...." Visit the project's download page to read the full list of features. Download: Elive_0.9-b7_Macbooks.iso (668MB, MD5).
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| 2007-07-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Elive 1.0 |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 1.0, a Debian-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment desktop: "After a long wait, the first official stable version of Elive, 1.0, has finally been released. This version is ready for the end users and not just hard core testers. It is a more intuitive, efficient and easy-to-use system. It has better integration of the file manager and the mime types, a nice kernel especially for multimedia and big process loads, a light-weight foot print, much better compatibility with Windows system, more hardware supported, better graphical recognition, and many more things that you can find in the complete changelog." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Elive 1.0 is not available for free download, but interested users can obtain the CD image from the project's download page (a donation is requested).
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| 2007-05-18 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.6.9 (Unstable) |
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A new unstable build of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment window manager, is out for final testing: "Elive 0.6.9 development released. We are near the next stable version! Please try out this development version to know if anything needs to be fixed. Changes: file manager (Pcmanfm) - you can use and mount NTFS partitions with Thunar now, mimetypes configured to open the proper applications for all your files; Entrance - fixed the login problems; NTFS- better support for NTFS partitions; applications - all applications renamed and re-ordered to be more intuitive to the end user; file manager - we returned to Thunar again, Pcmanfm does not seem to be very stable for now...." Find more details in the release announcement. Download: elive_0.6.9_unstable.iso (662MB, MD5).
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| 2007-05-02 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.6.8 (Unstable) |
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A new development build of Elive is out for testing. What's new? "DVD auto-launcher - if the DVD auto-launcher (oxine application) did not work on your computer in previous versions, it works now; Swiss keyboards - now in the keyboard configurator in Elpanel you can set your Swiss keyboard to French and German variants; XkbVariant value of X.Org is implemented in the keyboard configurator now; Debian Etch, we have moved to it instead of still using the testing repositories; ipw3945 supported; AMSN now supports webcams on MacBook computers; news reader - automatic reader of Elive news now included; screen resolution 1440x900 added; GIMP can print; CD-ROM ejects when closing the live CD system; E16 does not work in this version of Elive." More details in the release announcement. Download: elive_0.6.8_unstable.iso (661MB, MD5) or via BitTorrent.
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| 2007-04-20 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.6.7 (Unstable) |
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The Elive project has announced the release of Elive 0.6.7, the project's latest development build on the road to stable 0.7: "After a huge amount of work, Elive has finally released version 0.6.7 with many changes: Enlightenment - disabled the flip desktops when mouse is at screen edge; many hotkeys were added for multimedia keyboards; Elive now supports 7zip compressed files; GtkPod added again and with better looking icons; DV camera - permission enabled to use Kino with your camcorder for a normal user; GParted bug fixes; first implementation of support for Mac OS X partitions (only read mode); Bluetooth supported with applications on the menus; better support of exotic resolutions like 1280x800 especially for Intel graphic cards...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Download: elive_0.6.7_unstable.iso (661MB, MD5).
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| 2007-03-24 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.6.6 (Unstable) |
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A new development build of Elive has been released. What's new? "Windows: fixed mount points created on /mnt/windows_X in installed systems; IRC: channel #elive-fun removed, just #elive is good enough; MPlayer: if you have a VESA driver for your graphical system, you can now use full screen function in MPlayer (right click on the video to select full screen); Enlightenment: disabled the flip desktops when mouse is at screen edge feature by default because it confuses the inexperienced users, you can enable it from the configuration menus of Enlightenment; Night look: the old background has been replaced by a new animated one, cool and dark with a very nice little effect of ripples, very good for systems that use two or more monitors." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: elive_0.6.6_unstable.iso (658MB, MD5).
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| 2007-03-10 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.6.5 (Unstable) |
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A new development build of Elive has been released for testing. What's new? "Now os-prober (the finder of other systems on your computer to add them to the boot menu selector) recognizes your Windows partitions and recognizes Elive partitions like 'Elive'; a new installer has been implemented (version 3.2), with better code, more features, and all old bugs fixed; JFS support; extra help: the installer now instructs users how to partition and install the system way better than before; Windows partitions are now recognized on /mnt like windows_c, windows_d, etc; section 'Anti War' of Elive's bookmarks removed due to miscellaneous reasons." Read the full release announcement for further information. Download: elive_0.6.5_unstable.iso (665MB, MD5).
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| 2007-02-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.6.4 (Unstable) |
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A new development release of Elive is out: "Elive 0.6.4 development released. A fresh new version with nice fixes: GIMP, bug fixed: some people had GIMP launch problems; installer, bug fixed: Memtest and graphical GRUB working for people with separate /boot partitions; Cinelerra updated: with some fixes and new hotkeys added; burners: fixed the problem when trying to make a DVD image; audio CDs: fixed the problem in the auto-launcher that only pops up with some audio type CDs; webcams: when you plug in a webcam, a webcam viewer is launched with special effects; NTFS: on the previous development release, great new things were implemented for NTFS, but some users found that their NTFS partitions were not mounted." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: elive_0.6.4_unstable.iso (655MB, MD5).
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| 2007-02-16 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.6.3 (Unstable) |
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An updated development build of Elive has been released for testing. What's new? "aMSN - version 0.96 with fonts anti-aliased; generating X.Org, bug fixed; NTFS - after the lot of problems we have had with NTFS, including freezing at boot, Elive has changed to the ntfs-3g driver; VFAT/FAT32 - finally, Elive will give any users account permissions to write on a VFAT/FAT32 mount by default; installer Features - if your Master Boot Record is damaged or overtaken by another operating system, the installer auto-detects it and asks you if you would like to recover it; graphical GRUB - 800x600 pixels with many colors, animations." More information in the release announcement. Download: elive_0.6.3_unstable.iso (651MB, MD5).
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| 2006-12-25 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Elive 0.6 |
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A bug-fix update of Elive "Revolution" has been released. Here is a brief list of some of the changes: "Fixed SCSI emulation CD-ROM driver; fixed Czech boot option; fixed special character problems in menus; added new sounds to the 'Elive look'; installer updates which will fine-tune a new installation on first boot; new drivers for wireless networking; added Flash 9 beta browser plugin; removed OpenOffice.org from the ISO image due to space reasons; added Java; added Transmission - a small, fast, simple and effective BitTorrent client; added Torus trooper - a game; made Thunar the default file manager; updated Cinelerra to version 2.1; added KQEMU, a KDE front-end from QEMU; added measures to prevent root login into graphical desktop...." Visit the project's news page to read the full release announcement. Download: Elive_Revolution_rl2.iso (655MB, MD5).
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| 2006-12-11 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.5.5 (Unstable) |
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A new unstable build of Elive is out: "Elive 0.5.5 development released." The release announcement hints at some reasons for the new release; as an example, those who wish to upgrade to the latest version of X.Org will find that their ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers no longer work, a new version of GCC from Debian will prevent the proprietary kernel drivers from installing successfully without recompiling the kernel, and there is also a serious bug affecting certain SCSI-emulated CD-ROMs. The new release comes with a downgraded kernel version 2.6.15.7 and several WiFi driver modules. Please read the release announcement for more information. Download: elive_0.5.5_unstable.iso (651MB, MD5).
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| 2006-11-23 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.5.3 (Unstable) |
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A new development release of Elive live CD is now available for download and testing. What's new? "Icedove is the new name for Thunderbird; many updates, the packages are updated from Debian, some of the important updates are: cdrecord, cdda2wav, dvd+rw-tools, nfs-common; Czech selection on the boot menu fixed; kernel and drivers all updated, new versions, some more drivers, all built with the actual GCC from Debian, kernel update from 2.6.18 to 2.6.18.2; Flash 9 beta; wireless bcm43xx; ATI driver updated and some little things fixed." Read the full release announcement for more information. Download from here: elive_0.5.3_unstable.iso (639MB, MD5).
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| 2006-11-05 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.5.2 (Unstable) |
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A new development version of Elive has been released for download and testing. What's new? "The beta version of the future Flash 9 is included; update from X.Org 7.0 to 7.1; Intel wireless firmware updates for the ipw2x00 models of wireless cards; Torus trooper, an amazing game made by Kenta Cho, with a retro-futuristic style; Transmission, a small basic BitTorrent client; E16 fonts - fixed problem with characters on the E16 menus and messages; E16 sounds - helpful sounds added to the 'Elive look' of E16 (a nice girl's voice explaining the available options); Java was again added to the development versions; Evidence no longer be in the dock, replaced by Thunar; Thunar media tags and archiver plugins have been added to Elive; Gaim updated to the latest version." Read the complete release announcement for details. Download: elive_0.5.2_unstable.iso (640MB, MD5).
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| 2006-10-13 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.5.1 (Unstable) |
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The development of Elive 0.5.1 has started and the first unstable release is now available for download. What's new? According to the release announcement, the most interesting new feature is the inclusion of kernel 2.6.18, complete with improved support for wireless networking and ready for deployment on machines with multiple processors. Other new features include: installer improvements with automatic, manual and expert modes, and with package configuration via debconf; new stable release of Enlightenment 17, version 0.17.8.3, with new features and effects (Xcomposite, zoom, sound in themes, Xinerama, localisation and RandR); update to Cinelerra 2.1. A number of bugs reported in the earlier release have also been fixed. Interested testers can download the live CD image from here: elive_unstable_20061012.iso (596MB, MD5).
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| 2006-09-24 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Elive 0.5 |
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After many months of development, a new stable version of Elive has been released. Called "Revolution", the updated version of the distribution that features the newest Enlightenment desktop comes with the following new features: "Uses Dsslive for the live CD mode; ATI cards working again with 3D acceleration; auto-launchers for USB sticks, DVD movies, audio CDs and Windows CDs; complete suite for setting the correct refresh rate of graphics cards; audio manager for setting audio programs to use ALSA or ESD; kernel 2.6.15 with miscellaneous drivers and wireless modules; an installer feature to upgrade an old Elive system; two different looks for both Elive systems...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details, then visit the screenshot pages to see Elive 0.5 in action. Download from here: Elive_Revolution.iso (692MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2006-09-03 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.5 Beta 3.4 |
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Elive Linux, a Debian-based live CD featuring the Enlightenment window manager, has entered the final stages of its development in preparation for the release of a new stable version: "Elive 0.5 Beta 3.4 has been released. This will probably be the last beta release before the stable one." According to the changelog, this version adds an on-the-fly method of switching between locales, a new option to manually define monitor refresh rates, OpenOffice.org 2, a new icon set for the Thunar file manager and pre-configured mime types, Blender 2.42a and Yafray 0.0.9, and many other improvements and bug fixes. Interested beta testers can download the CD image from here: elive_0.5-beta-3.4_unstable_20060901.iso (697MB, MD5).
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| 2006-08-09 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.5 Beta 3.1 |
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A new development build of Elive has been released for testing: "The new generation of Elive has started and the beta-3.1 for the future version 0.5 is officially released." Version 0.5 is based on Dsslive with kernel 2.6.15 and X.Org 7.0. Other new features include SATA support, better compatibility with amd64 processors, new drivers for wireless networking, and several improvements to the hard disk installer. Enlightenment 17 now comes with a beautiful Lucax theme, while Firefox also has an exciting, never-seen-before look. For more information please see the release announcement and changelog. Download: elive-unstable_beta-3.1_20060807.iso (692MB, MD5).
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| 2006-05-27 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.5 Beta |
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The Elive project has released the first beta build of the upcoming Elive 0.5 Enlightenment live CD. What's new? "New live CD system - Elive has moved from Morphix to DSS; new kernel 2.6.15 with a lot more hardware support, also for wireless networking, make a look to the list of new drivers added; new installer features; Elive has new system of elive-skel, you can select 'night look' or 'elive look' in the boot of the live CD system; introductory tutorial to Enlightenment hot keys on E16; Unionfs version 1.1.4; Evidence doesn't crash any more; email client integrated with the system." Read the development changelog for more information and a list of download mirrors. Get it from here: Elive-unstable-cvs20060526.iso (680MB, MD5).
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| 2006-03-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Elive 0.4.2 |
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A bug-fix update of the recently released Elive 0.4 has been completed: "Elive 0.4.2, code name 'Serenity', has been released. Changelog: all the bugs listed in the 'bugs section' are fixed; ATI works again with the 'fglrx' driver; added support for SATA hard disks; a new feature in Elpanel to configure the terminal; Firefox 1.5; better auto-launch support for Windows type CDs and auto-detection of Cedega; many minor changes." Read the release announcement and changelog for more information. The new version of the increasingly popular live CD featuring the Enlightenment window manager is available for download via BitTorrent: Elive_0.4.2.iso (692MB).
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| 2006-02-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Elive 0.4 |
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Elive 0.4, featuring the latest development builds of both Enlightenment 16 and 17, has been released. New features: "This version is a stabilization of 0.3, a better release with all bad things fixed, but also with many of new features; new installer, with more file systems supported and a cleaner installation; Elive mounts automatically USB sticks and CD-ROMs, Debian-based kernel 2.6.12 + udev; Firefox with Java and Flash; ELPANEL - the new control panel of Elive with many features; easy printer configuration; Cinelerra 2.0; Elive is now much faster - DMA enabled; driver modules updated and new ones added; new version of AMSN with webcam support...." Visit the distribution's download page to see the complete list of new features, bug fixes and known issues. Elive 0.4 is available for download via BitTorrent: Elive_0.4.iso (700MB).
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| 2006-02-10 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 0.4 Pre |
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A new pre-release build of the Elive live CD 0.4 is out. Designed for fans of the Enlightenment window manager, the new version includes the latest development code of both E16, the current stable release, and E17, the new major update of the beautiful desktop. Besides featuring the Enlightenment eye-candy, the live CD also includes the latest versions of Blender (2.41), Cinerella (2.0.0), and other popular applications for graphics and multimedia use. The distribution's entire base system has been synchronised with the Debian testing branch. Testing is expected to last one week and if no showstopper bugs are found, this pre-release will become 0.4 final. Here is the complete release announcement. The Elive ISO image is available for download via BitTorrent: elive_0.4_pre.iso (696MB).
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| 2005-08-31 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Elive 0.3 |
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Elive is a Morphix-based Linux live CD designed for fans of the Enlightenment desktop environment. Version 0.3 is the project's first stable release: "Elive 0.3 released. This version includes hard disk installation, NVIDIA driver, the possibility to compile and install any program in the live CD system or install any extra package on the fly, stable and fully configured environment. With this version installed on the hard disk, you have an option to upgrade to another version with a simple apt-get upgrade." Also includes support for several languages, the second beta of OpenOffice.org 2.0, and the latest Enlightenment 17 straight from its CVS repository. Find more information on the distribution's home page. The ISO image is available for free download from here: elive-0.3.iso (646MB, MD5).
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