Elive,
Operating System.
Elive is a very stable, non-comercial and cost-free operating system that replaces your default system in your computer, it is raised by donations and is developed and maintained by one person.
Elive provides an intuitive experience in a fully complete system ready for the daily use. The desktop is a very customized version of Enlightenment which offers a light and beautiful experience that works great in even the oldest computers, and uses Debian as base to provide a perfectly stable and powerful system.
It can be run directly in Live mode without the need to install having an own guided persistence feature, and if you want to convert your computer in a powerful workstation our very friendly installer includes much features to ease the process.
Elive is a mix between an easy to use system for non-experienced users and includes incredibly useful tools for the advanced ones, this hybrid comes in the form of a clean and beautiful desktop yet powerful to do any task.
Don’t waste your time trying unsatisfying distros, get Elive entirely cost-free now!
Personal Statement
Dear users, I have seen on internet over the years some complaints about the donation policy in Elive that were required to install the stable versions.
I would like to personally introduce myself, I’m Samuel F. ‘Thanatermesis’ Baggen, and as you might not know, I’m not a company but a single person, Elive is my full time job, and I invest all my time and effort on this, as you might know, this takes a long time to develop and have everything correctly working for you to enjoy it.
Due to the lack of economical support, sadly it is quite possible that this project may have to end.
This coming next release 3.0 is going to be entirely cost-free to increase the number of users in order to keep Elive continue existing. If you like Elive, please make it more known.
Thank you for your understanding and help.
Samuel F. ‘Thanatermesis’ Baggen
Top Elive features:
- Lightness & Speed
- Eyecandy, effects, and beautiful desktop
- Intuitive & Simplicity
- Guided and Automated
- Complete, full of apps and features
- Multimedia
- Own features and integration
- Futuristic and clean desktop
- Comfortable to work
- Virus-free, Ads-free, Cost-free
- No need to install & saves sessions
- Installer with migration, upgrade, and auto modes
- Runs on 256 MB of RAM and 500 Mhz CPU
- Full root access
- Programing Features
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“Elive is not made for newbies. Elive is not made for experienced people. Elive is not made for enterprises or personal user. Elive is art. It is simply for the people who appreciate it and want to use it. Feel free to try Elive, because only you decide what you want in this world!”
WHY ELIVE WAS MADE?
The reasons of the Elive existence
WAS NEEDED A CHANGE
No matter how new is your computer, in less than 3 years you will probably need to buy a new one. In the middle of an important work it can block, probably destroy your precious information, and from time to time you need to reinstall the entire system. At the end you have a mountain of frustration, that makes you hate computers, technology, the invention of fire, and the entire earth itself.
These things are simply unacceptable for us, so we decided to create an entire and better system for you, giving you an enjoyable experience.
INTUITIVE & READY
Most of the systems doesn’t come with the basic needs covered, and so you need to lose your time researching good applications that fits your needs. While other systems are not “ready” to be used, Elive comes with all that you may need and everything is working out of the box. Elive is simply a ready to use system.
We are passionate about designing the best interactive and usable interfaces that even our parents could use with ease. Things are reachable without need to dig in thousands of options to reach the one that you are searching for. It is easy for us to understand what you expect from your computer.
UNLEASH THE POWER
We hate limitations, why we should not allow you to do anything that you want? Personalization and possibilities are a must to have!
You can not only personalize the system with the look that you want to have, but you can also change entirely its behaviour, you have thousands of options to play with and you can build your own ones, the limits are simply in your imagination.
Is your imagination enough to imagine the infinite?
MADE WITH PLEASURE
We enjoy making Elive, and because things made by pleasure are better than the ones made by an external incentive. Elive has not planned obsolescence, we want to made it good, not to sell it. One example is that you will never found ads in Elive, your life is much more important than for lose your time annoyed by publicity.
We are complainers, not conformists, we are not obedient, we don’t accept the unacceptable, we do what we want to do, we break the rules, the future has freedom and quality, did you want to walk it with us?
How fast Elive can run in Old Computers
Elive is so light that can revive your old computer into a much more powerful, friendly and elegant machine. Now think how good it can run in your new computer!
- Antonio -
- Gilles -
- Felipe Magnus Gil -
- Fito -
I'd just like to say a big thank-you to the developers who put together one of the nicest user experiences I've ever come across.
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READY TO USE
Elive already includes all the software that you would need, you will not miss anything so the system is just ready to use, in difference to other operating systems Elive is not slower by having much software installed, its blazing fast!
Between them we can found special things like: automatic music tagger, video composers, graphic edition, office suite, productivity applications, virtual machine emulators, advanced terminal features, music downloaders, torrent, dj mixer, darktable, photo albums manager, video converters, media centers, typist trainer, etc… and of course all the common software like email, web, gimp, inkscape, etc.
POWERFUL
Elive has a highly developed internal structure, making it adaptable to all your needs.
You can do things like to write simple documents or make professional video editing, being multitasking you can launch any applications at the same time without blocking. Thus Elive never blocks, never has virus and never destroys your data due to unacceptable errors. An user called 'Mikeat5000' ran Elive for more than 500 days without reboot, one day his son hit the power button accidentally
The system is so customizable that you can change entirely its behaviour and automate tasks in any desired way.
LIGHTWEIGHT
Elive is extremely fast because it consumes minimal resources and it is highly optimized.
You can even run Elive in your oldest computer transforming it back to a powerful workstation, so imagine how fast it will run on your newer computer!
We use for that the most lightweight combination of applications, libraries, and techniques to build a very responsive and optimized system.
You need to satisfy your needs at the speed of the thought, not to wait for them to load.
BEAUTIFUL
Elive has a polished, clean, and dynamic interface. Bringing you to a beautiful and pleasure experience.
We take care of each minimal detail that you may not see. Thanks to its unlimited possibilities and internal optimization we have created an operating system whose beauty is unsurpassed… and the best is yet to come!
You can even have transparencies and 3d/compiz effects in your desktop without the need of a 3D graphic card, sounds impossible? Try it! The feature to run composite effects in computers without an accelerated 3d card, is only available since the version upper to Topaz 2.0, so the beta versions, until the next stable will come
UNIQUE FEATURES
- Pablo -
- Lillith Eva -
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- Jess Luana -
When I first looked at Elive I thought it looked very interesting, but I did not realize what a surprise I was in for! This Beautiful OS astounded me! I had no words for it! It competes with the likes of any other system I have ever used, And I have used every other popular OS's out there today!
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Daniel Lapain
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I'd just like to say a big thank-you to the developers who put together one of the nicest user experiences I've ever come across.
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Some distros are set up like a house decorated for it's cover shot and photo spread. Elive is like a home that someone lives in. Users will discover the many subtle details only after living with Elive for a while.
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- Marcelo -
To the creators behind this awesome distro, please allow me to congratulate you and give you my thanks, for creating this unique piece of software.
Elive is fast, super fast, freaking fast, is a gem.
Thank you!!!!!
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Joe101
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Elive adds a refreshing look to what ever pc it runs on. It's component parts work well and installation is a breeze. The live disc includes more than just the essentials, having a broad range of desktop applications elive is a fast lane into modern media editing and recreation.
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Andy Page
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I don't know what specifically you did, but I tried 10 different linux systems prior to attempting Elive and is the first time that my external hard disk was recognized correctly. I love you guys for it. You saved all my data! Thanks!
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jxn
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Truly a very nice system, simple and powerful, able to satisfy the most demanding user. Congratulations!
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Ruben Velasco
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SELECT YOUR PROFILE
Is Elive made for you?
PERSONAL
Elive is perfect for personal use, no matters if you are novice or an advanced user, in Elive you can found powerful tools at the same time that everything is intuitive, it also includes a very good selection of applications by default so you can enjoy of all the tools that a computer can bring to you.
BUSINESS
As you may know, Elive uses Debian as base, but not like a fork or a hack like what Ubuntu did, it’s more like an adapted customization of Debian, keeping the maximum compatibility with it. You can install Elive very fastly and optimized for every computer and use it for a server or any other purpose, so you can enjoy of the amazing features for terminal unique in Elive.
FAMILY
You don’t know what to install in the computer of your mother? Do you have kids and they found linux hard to use? Elive is so intuitive that anybody can enjoy using it, my mother uses Elive too and she’s very happy with, and I received some testimonials giving thanks for having this system installed on their child’s computers. Try it!
NORMAL FEATURES
- Multiple Languages support
- Automated detection of language and timezone, based on your ip
- Drivers compatibility, most probably your hardware will work out of the box
- Wide range of Wireless devices supported
- Pager, a better way to organize your workplace
- All the applications that you may need already included
- Multiple audio cards supported at the same time, allowing you to use microphone or speakers from separately
- Virtual Machines, where you can run Windows or Mac systems
- Useful for Kids to learn, and daily usable for parents
- Flexible options, configure it as you want, change the entire behaviour or even create your owns.
- Applications Bar, put on it your favorite applications
And MUCH More...
- Automatic launchers and mounts actions
- Automated set of clock when you change to another country
- Automate tasks that you found repetitive.
- Share folders and access to remote ones
- Convert Audio’s and Images massively just selecting them
- Nurse mode: a full suite of health tests and reparation system
- Fonts and Brushes sets included by default
- 101% customizable desktop and everything
- Complete Media-Center (xbmc)
- Overall compatibility and integration between applications
- Games & Game Emulators
- Intuitive way of work, drag-n-drop anything anywhere
- Hotkeys: we have hotkeys for anything, use them and you will work much faster
ADVANCED FEATURES
Customize EVERYTHING
Install other Operating Systems
3D Graphic card is not required
Video Performances
Connect to Internet using your Mobile Phone
- It remembers your settings and provider for connect the next time, added in a new submenu
- set it to automatically connect to internet at the startup, very useful if you live somewhere where your only possibility to connect to internet is using your phone, or if you travel by some days
- connect or disconnect in a single click
USB creator of Elive bootable sticks
Friendly Admin Mode
- Open a terminal
- Type “su” and put your root password
- run “cd /etc” in order to go to the configurations directory
- edit the file fstab, for that:
- run “vim fstab”
- type “i” and then…
- wrong idea, exit, with :q!
- use nano instead
- etc…
- Open your File Manager, where your files are
- Right click and select Admin Mode
- You have a new window opened, run by your admin (root), where you can browse and go to anywhere of your system easily, and you can edit files without worry about which application to use, because a simple right-click on the selected file will do all the job, visually
- What more friendly way you can found than that?
Reparation Mode
- Recover Configurations: You can recover any “Elive default” configurations, like your desktop settings
- Hardware Tests to verify that your computer is working without problems
- Packages: check if your system contains all the packages included by default with Elive, if not, you may miss any feature
- Free Space on the disk
- Kernel: Install newer kernels or also with special support like more than 4gb of ram
- Much more…
Installer Unique Features
- Upgrade mode: instead of reinstall Elive
- Migrate mode: if you try to install over common OS’s like ubuntu or debian, it allows you to save your users, files, passwords, and everything, like a conversion of OS
- No media needed: do you want to reinstall Elive but you don’t want to use a cdrom or USB? you can boot the live mode directly from your hard disk in an automated way and install it without problems
- Much more…
ADVANCED-USER FEATURES
eliveuser ❯ cat science.db | artify.rb | strip > /dev/kernel Elive features the best of each thing
[OK] beautified knowledge
[OK] optimized
[OK] kernel updated
eliveuser ❯
OSS (audio) Compatibility
Shell
- A satisfying Color scheme
- When you connect via SSH, your prompt changes to a unique-color set to the name of the host where you are connected, on that way you will never run any command in the wrong terminal
- When you are working as root, the username is set to red
- Switched to zsh by default
- Much nicer color scheme (candy!)
- Git powered prompt (and other good amount of zsh features)
- 256 colors enabled terminal
- aliases for common apt-get commands
Powerful CLI (shell) tools by Elive!
- bkp: the most useful tool that you may have never seen! It makes you incremental snapshots of the directory where you are actually, persistent after reboots and without matter what contents you have on it, it is even compatible if you are in a git repository, saving incremental backup points from any required moment where you can go back to any previous saved, do you want to play something dangerous in your git source code? just run “bkp save” before to do it and you will have a free assurance gift. Do you want to compile something but you know that will put a lot of trash files on your source code directory? just go back to the state previously to the compilation. But you have much more features too:
- bkp save: it saves a snapshot of your directory, incremental
- bkp restore: it restores any state from any point, and go back to the last one too
- bkp meld: amazing feature for do a visual comparison between the previous saved state and the actual one
- bkp meld 5: same, but since the fifth previous state
- bkp diff: generates a perfectly compatible diff from different states, if you dump it to a file you have a patch
- bkp purge: it removes all your saved states history
- bkp work: a different way to use it, it does a clone of your actual directory in a temporal place so that you can do anything on it, you can later compare the result for if you want to import anything made
- pandoc-from-web-to-misc: generate ebooks and pdf’s from any website link, the results are amazing!
- psort: ever wanted a command that does a sort but giving to it a priority list of matches?
- procrastination-erradicator: do you have hard to start focusing in your work? try it
- elivepaste: a handy and more automated way to use pastebin websites
- setvolume: a command to change the volume of your computer dynamically, use it with any of your commands
- precache: use it with songs or videos for previously cache them, but also with applications for faster run them
- waitfor: do you want to run something but only after another thing has finished? simple: waitfor compile-script.sh && scp compiled-result user@myserver:
- count-mb-network: a simple way to count your transfer bandwith used in your shell
- Sometimes we got enlightened, and we make a new tool 🙂
Console Editor (VIM)
- An own colorscheme, using specific colors for be useful more than beautiful
- Ctags for EFL libs
- Edje syntax
- Ships with Bundle by default
- Already Installed must-to-have and well beta-tested plugins
- Much more, see your .vimrc file !
Enlightened Terminal
Enlightenment / E17 Improvings
- Focus Remembers: multiple features for a better remember of the focus of your window, for example when you come back from another desktop or a delay for add it to the remember list after to have passed a minimum amount of time on it
- Window limits: We found that some users had difficult to move their windows if they allows to be out of the screen, so we designed a much better and smarter management of the limits of the windows inside the screen with different options
- Night Mode: This feature inverts the colors of your monitor, perfect for read things at night or to not have a tired vision
- Sleep Mode: This feature allows you to put your computer to sleep, suspend or hibernation, after some time has passed or at a specific hour, you can configure it to be on that way each day, perfect for go to sleep listening music or leave the computer to finish some tasks before to shutdown
Server
Programming Environment
So… what are you waiting for? Try it!
It’s time for a new experience…