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Congratulations on the making of such a great distro, and thank you for your hard work. I hope you can continue with it.

I love Elive too. Best features for me are:

- Based on Debian Stable & E
- desktop (exactly what I want)
- all multimedia works out of the box
- bundled applications are very thoughtful. For example, most people who own computers these days also own a digital stills and video camera, yet most distros don't come with the tools needed for editing home m


az_s_za.

Just wanted to say that I love ELIVE! I just got it installed and have been toying with it for an hour or so, and I have 0 complaints so far. My only issue is getting wireless working, and thats only because Broadcomm sucks for not making a linux driver like every other wireless chipset maker. Anyway, I will try to post here as much as possible with issues, fixes, and ideas as they crop up. With the community's help this could be the greatest OS Distro EVER!

THANKS ELIVE TEAM!


Phreaky.

Elive is definitely the best looking distributions available. It uses the Enlightenment desktop environment. I have never used Enlightenment before. The ELIVE default desktop is absolutely gorgeous! The stars in the sky twinkle and move throughout the very nice looking background. The application dock at the bottom of the screen is cute, in fact better than Mac OSX. I am soon gonna switch over to Elive. I love it.

Keep up the good work Thanatermesis. You have done a fantastic job by producin


cool_penguin.

I have been impressed with Elive and e17 for quite a while...

Yesterday I did two things:

1. I re-installed Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

2. I installed a dual boot to Elive Gem 1.0

Both installs went without event, I was most impressed with how Elive set up a custom grub menu, with the 3 options:

1. Elive Gem 1.0

2. Windows XP Media Center Edition

3. Memory Diagnostic test

I was also impress


rax tux.

Last year I downloaded a Elive CD and was pretty amazed by it. although it did crash alot but I saw the potential :)

Now, a few month's ago I bought a HP DV9064ea and I thought by myself let's give elive another run and everything runs out of the box once you install it, unbelievable even the integrated webcam seems to function.

Great job with this fine distro :)


cenobyte.

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Permissions, root, and admin privileges


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Your Elive system is a very secured operating system, the users are only allowed to do the things that they needs to do, but they can't broke the system for example, like you can see that when you need to configure something of the system you need to insert the admin (root) password in order to continue.

Some users thinks that the best way to have full permissions is to work in root mode, that's totally not true, root has even LESS permissions for a lot of things than normal users, a lot of applications won't work in root mode.

The problem comes from the moment that Elive want to have a user-friendly way that the (even the more unexperienced) user want to do 'anything' that requires root privileges... so, we need to explain how to use the terminal to this user ? or what about saying to open vim to somebody that has never touched to it ? sounds hard...



So Elive has found the best way to do all that !

Just open your file-manager, (where you have all the files...), and right-click anywhere (out of any icon) and you can see a special entry called: Admin Mode, if you click to it, by requesting the admin password will open you another file-manager in root mode, now the user can do ANYTHING from it... first of all he can browse all the files of the system, he can copy, move, remove... he can click on a configuration file and edit it with a graphical editor instead to be scared from the geek-friend saying now open nano, also, any type of file (icon) are associated to a default application, what more easy than this ? He can even right click again and then open a terminal, so it will have a ROOT terminal !



Tips and Tricks by Thanatermesis on the Elive World :þ



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