Elive

Reader supplied reviews for Elive Average rating 5.2 from 39 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Elive? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 3.8.483.0.42.01.00.60.50.4.20.30.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 3.8.48 Rating: 7 Date: 2025-08-18 Votes: 3 Elive is stable. Easy to install but all questions are not asked at once, but come little by little which mean it needs attention in the long install process. Very stable. So stable it is boring if used to rolling distros. Not that free to get the ISO for 64-bit ($€£). Easy to install. Works on hardware 15 year old. Not RAM hungry. Look of it is either exiting or not. Many colours – too many? A lot of software included, much of it rather old. Remove what it not needed and what you need, replace with new from Debian repository. Too much begging for donations. Some strange videos and documents pre-installed. Used it a couple of months and went back to Tumbleweed, latest software and from a company that can be believed to be able to support your computer with new versions of all needed for as long as the computer will last. I think that Elive has many nice things going and for those that like the look of it – OK! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3.8.48 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-08-13 Votes: 0 Over 25 yrs and literally dozens and dozens of distros.......even the new one from this week, I always return and am impressed with the attention to detail Eiive puts into their distros. I'm not so interested in their "stable" version which seems more focused on Audio and Multimedia stuff. The beta versions are just a more honest approach to OS releases....almost all OS releases should be identified as "beta" since most immediately start releasing "updates". So much for stable releases come on. No such thing! So Elive is at least honest and its refreshing. Its incredibly flexible. You can change the look of everything. Way to easy. So, I always come back to Elive on both very old and my newest machines. Great work Mr. Baggen !! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3.8.42 Rating: 1 Date: 2024-07-16 Votes: 12 Got to say I really wanted to like this one, but after repeated trials I came to the conclusion that Ellive fails in its announced primary mission - revitalizing older computers. I'll give Elive this - it brings on the bling, sort of a Barbie meets Liniux look and feel. The trouble is in the stability. I get browsers are an issue on old hardware, graphic cards and CPUs are pressed but many distros running on old computers manage with out constant freezes, but not Elive. And it would be somewhat forgivable if the freezing was just associated with browsers, but freezing simply permeates Elive. Given the website for Elive reminds me of what Ron Popeil might have created if he developed a Linix distro, I expected more. Popeil's products worked as advertised, Elive does not. And then there is the onerous process to try Elive for free, truly someone thinks much of themselves. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 39 reader reviews of Elive...