Elive News

The Elive Team is proud to announce the development release of Elive-Compiz version 1.9.29

Much work is being focused on improving the next stable release of Elive 2.0, yet we are glad to have available an improved Compiz version of Elive:

• Hibernation: Big rewrite of the hibernation support in Elive, with many extras such as cleanup of old hibernated partitions, live mode detection and warning requesting if the user wants to continue with losing the hibernated state
• Installer: Lots of bugfixes and features in the installer:
  • A special feature to reinstall your favorite packages at every reinstall (upgrade mode) without the need to do it yourself manually
  • Some packages are not wanted by the end-user like cups, ssh, or hibernation... the user can select them in order to remove them from its installed system, this will also boost a bit the boot and also made the system more light
  • same IP configuration for your network like in your installed system (for the live mode too)
  • saved the extra entry's of your /etc/hosts file into your upgraded Elive system
  • ssh Host Key saved after you upgrade your Elive system
  • Better management of the Swap partitions
• Boot: Fixed broken messages (dialog boxes) in the boot of the live mode
• Webcam: A simple webcam viewer is added on your Video menu of applications
• Intel Graphic cards: Improved 3d acceleration
• Compiz: The cube effect works again (but not enabled by default, since the other one is much more stable)
• VirtualBox:
  • Guest tools installed and configured by default. This means that you can boot Elive within VirtualBox with improvements for mouse and screen
  • Using: If you install VirtualBox in your Elive system (not a default application), it will work without the need to do any trick by loading modules or adding your users to a special group
• Kernel version: 2.6.26.8-elive-686 (revision 40)

Note that this is a DEVELOPMENT (compiz) version.

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.28

• Partitions: Better detection and listing of the partitions for the live mode and the installer. If you encounter any problem since this version of Elive, please report it!.
• Raid: Now the fake-hardware (featured by the motherboard Bios) RAID disks are supported (thanks to the help and tests of watchwolf). A small help about RAID (software mode) is added in 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 doesn't boot anymore after running the fine-tune step because of some problems with lilo. This is now solved by using grub.
• Installer: The development is now all concentrated on the installer, with a large number of minor bugfixes and features.

Note that this is a DEVELOPMENT version. Download the ISO from the development section

You are welcome to join our Testers Mailing List Group to give us a feedback about this development version or any thing that you want to report. Help us to make Elive even better and with more fast releases!

If you want to Collaborate with Elive, you can fill up your knowledges in the Collaborators page. If you have a spare USB Wireless device that you don't use, you can send it to the Elive Team for driver development testing. Just fill up an email to elivesystems at gmail.com. Thank you for collaborating !

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development (compiz) version 1.9.27-compiz

This is a major update for the Compiz series of Elive

• Module: Now instead of configuring compiz from ecsm you can do it from a module
• Cube: The cube is disabled by default now due to its instability compared with the wall mode
• Switcher: Not that the switcher (windows switcher) of compiz is ugly, but its 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!

Note that this is a DEVELOPMENT (compiz) version. Download the ISO from the development section

You are welcome to join our Testers Mailing List Group to give us a feedback about this compiz version or any thing that you want to report. Help us to make Elive even better and with more fast releases!

If you want to Collaborate with Elive, you can fill up your knowledges in the Collaborators page. If you have a spare USB Wireless device that you don't use, you can send it to the Elive Team for driver development testing. Just fill up an email to elivesystems at gmail.com. Thank you for collaborating !

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.26

• Nvidia / Ati: When you upgrade the kernel package and modules, you will broke your nvidia/ati drivers except if you update/install/remove any requirement manually... this problem is solved since this version by holding ALL the kernel/driver packages (and GLX packages) in case that the user needs a nvidia/ati privative driver.
• Accelerated boot: A bit more accelerated boot of the live system by sorting the files of the filesystem in the cdrom structure by their access order.
• Practical things: Convert any audio file to MP3 / OGG by right-click on them in the file-manager

Note that this is a DEVELOPMENT version. Download the ISO from the development section

You are welcome to join our Testers Mailing List Group to give us a feedback about this development version or any thing that you want to report. Help us to make Elive even better and with more fast releases!

If you want to Collaborate with Elive, you can fill up your knowledges in the Collaborators page. If you have a spare USB Wireless device that you don't use, you can send it to the Elive Team for driver development testing. Just fill up an email to elivesystems at gmail.com. Thank you for collaborating !

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.24

Big Updates

• Debian: We have finished syncing the repositories using the new Debian Lenny Stable, enjoy it.
• E17: Updated Enlightenment 17 with new features. You will notice that the 'switch desktops by moving the mouse to the edge screen' does not work on this version anymore, for that, enable the new module.
• Reiser 4: The new optimized filesystem Reiser4 is available as a module of our kernel. Note: this module is only available as kernel module, not in the installer as choice, so use it at your own risk. For experimental usages.
• Kernel Headers: The kernel headers have been pointed to a wrong build directory, thus the user did not have the possibility to build their own modules except if they pointed the symlink to the correct folder. This is now fixed for all future kernel headers.
• Scite: Scite is again our default editor, it is also the preferred choice of our users.
• Thunar: Previews of Flash videos.
• Mplayer: Some changes that include a fix of an annoying popup message when using poor-driver audio cards, and some hotkeys added for the non-gui mode like: left-click = pause, double-right-click = fullscreen, and normalized audio set by default.
• Autolaunchers: Removed old thunar autolaunchers system (you could re-enable it if you want) and we are back to our old system, this makes your Elive more light and featured, unfortunately this autolauncher system requires continuous maintenance.
• Macbooks: Better touchpad sensitivity.
• Installer: Fixed a bug verifying the integrity in computers that has a wrong clock-time set.
• LVM: Detection, mount, accessible in Live mode, available in the installer (requires manual creation of LVM).
• RAID: Detection, mount, accessible in Live mode, available in the installer (requires manual creation of RAID).
• Keymaps: A bit of work in the keymaps of the keyboards such as for slovenian, swiss and canadian.

The Elive Team is proud to announce a special version of Elive running Compiz !

Have you ever dreamed of Compiz-like effects in Enlightenment 17 ?

After a good number of previous testing versions, reports, fixes, and features added, Elive finally releases the special version with E17 running over Compiz (ecomorph).

Do you want more details? Just watch the video and see what it looks like!



You can download this special version of Elive here. Enjoy it!



You are welcome to join our Testers Mailing List Group to give us a feedback about this development version or any thing that you want to report. Help us to made Elive even better and with more fast releases!

If you want to Collaborate with Elive, you can fill up your knowledges in the Collaborators page. If you have a spare USB Wireless device that you don't use, you can end it to the Elive Team that will use in the wireless drivers development tests. Just fill up an email to elivesystems at gmail.com. Thanks for your collaboration !

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:

• Network Configurator: LinuxNIT has almost finished net-connector. We are currently using it at now for connecting to the internet by wired and wireless interfaces. It is now perfectly usable and stable, but please report anything wrong you found with it. Thanks LinuxNIT!
• Bookmarks: 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.
• Kernel: Kernel updated to version 2.6.26.8
  • Wireless: All the currently available wireless drivers have been added, including the newest ath9k for Atheros cards.
  • MacBooks: The bug about the WEP encription in Macbooks has been finally solved using the new ath9k driver included on this kernel.
  • Note: If you have a spare Wireless USB device that you don't use, you are welcome to send it to the Elive Team that will use in the wireless drivers development tests. Just send an email to elivesystems at gmail.com. Thanks for your collaboration!

Note that this is a DEVELOPMENT version. Download the ISO o the development section

You are welcome to join our Testers Mailing List Group to give us a feedback about this development version or any thing that you want to report. Help us to made Elive even better and with more fast releases!

If you want to Collaborate with Elive, you can fill up your knowledgements in the Collaborators page.
If you have a spare USB Wireless device that you don't use, you can end it to the Elive Team that will use in the wireless drivers development tests.Just fill up an email to elivesystems at gmail.com. Thanks for your collaboration !

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.9.15

This version includes better support for MacBooks and a much better network configurator

• MacBooks: There's a re-work in the macbook support, fixing some bugs like the installation and the webcam support
• Wireless / Network: Our new application to configure networks called Net-Connector is at a pretty good stage. All the known bugs are fixed and the autoconnect mode seems to be working properly. Since there are no known remaining bugs on it, we invite you to find new ones!, you can report them to http://bugs.elivecd.org and assign them directly to LinuxNIT. I give full credit to LinuxNIT for this magnificent application.

Note that this is a DEVELOPMENT version. Download the ISO o the development section

You are welcome to join our Testers Mailing List Group to give us a feedback about this development version or any thing that you want to report. Help us make Elive even better and with more fast releases!