Elive

Reader supplied reviews for Elive Average rating 5.1 from 37 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please selecting 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: -- 3.8.443.0.42.01.00.60.50.4.20.30.1 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: 3.8.42 Rating: 1 Date: 2024-07-16 Votes: 6 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 Version: 3.8.42 Rating: 2 Date: 2024-06-18 Votes: 7 Elive review. Pros ------ - Conceptually a great idea: supposedly able to breath new life into even 15 year old computers - A vibrant desktop theme, compared to stodgy old Windows grey on blue it is snazzy Cons ------- - Click on the download and see the first major issue - Elive warns you NOT TO USE the Stable version but instead to use the latest Beta, and I quote: " If you want to seriously use Elive, you must go for the latest Beta version instead, which is highly featured and extremely stable" - WTF!!!!! So in Elive land Beta means Stable and Stable means version 1.0, this is messed up beyond belief. - Complicated bizarre download process that tries to guilt you into donations - For a distro claiming, and I quote: "With Elive, computers up to 15 years old can be transformed to high-performance machines with a stunning interface fully customizable." Elive actually has difficulty running on older, major brand distributions. In Elive's defense inthe statement quoted above they used "can be", the trouble I have is Elive would not work effectively on a boatload of old Thinkpad/Lenovo old hardware. It was not till I ratcheted up to a T440p that I found hardware it would not freeze on. - Freeze, reboot, freeze again repeat on ant hardware older than 10 years old. and dodgy on 8-10 year old hardware Conclusion --------------- Elive may be a great distro for folks wanting to run a loudly themed Linux distro on middle aged hardware. However it fails in its primary mission and It is unsuitable for old hardware There are many excellent options available for older hardware that actually work out of the box: antiX, DSL, Bodhi, Slacko, Slax, Emmabuntüs,, Slackware, Puppy Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3.8.40 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-04-03 Votes: 5 Great distro, works on older hardware and blindingly fast on new. A lot of thought has been given to a minimalist base load which provides everything you need. The larger apps are there but you have the chance to really think about how you work and if you need the heavyweights. There is a live usb with persistence to use on machines other than your own. It's great for graphics, music and general office work, but super powerful for system administration and programming. Rethink you computing and have fun doing it! Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 37 reader reviews of Elive...