Elive News

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development (compiz) version 1.9.42

• 3g-dialer: If you want to connect to the internet from your 3G/HDSPA modem, you can use the 3g-dialer (it even supports PIN code)
• Thunar: More features have been added, specially for images and audio files, using right-click with your mouse.
• SSH: Using SSH will allow you to have direct access to enlightenment_remote features (if the remote user is also running E17).
• aMsn: New chat sessions won't open in separate windows.
• slamr: Finally with the help of some of our users, the bug seems to have been fixed. We're sorry for the delay; it was difficult to replicate the problem without the same hardware. We had to cross our fingers with each release to see any improvement.
• Kernel version: 2.6.26.8-elive-686 (revision 41)

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 development version or any thing else that you wish to report. Help us to make Elive even better and increase the speed of our 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 1.9.40

This is an update of the Compiz version that includes the much anticipated aMSN fix

• aMSN: Fixed and updated for the compiz version, you can use it again now
• Audio Configurator: You can configure which audio card (if you have more than one) you want to use as default
• AudioCDs: The auto-play of audio cd's has been repaired
• Kernel version: 2.6.26.8-elive-686 (revision 41)

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 development version or anything else that you wish to report. Help us to make Elive even better and increase the speed of our releases!

If you want to Collaborate with Elive, you can fill out your information 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 1.9.39

After a lot of work implementing the new kernel 2.6.30 in the development of Elive, we are obliged to switch back to the old 2.6.26 version. This is because the ATI (fglrx) driver requires an updated version of xserver-xorg which we can't update on Elive due to compatibility and stability reasons. However, you can install it manually, it is available on our repositories (without the ati driver, of course).

• Thunar: We added a workaround and changed configurations in thunar thanks to Phoenix suggestions (better support for 7zip, comics, fonts, thumbnails, etc).
• aMsn: Updated to the SVN version.
• bug fixed: The module slamr blocks the fine-tune step. This bug is fixed, if you see that it happens again please report it.
• Drivers updated: Madwifi, nvidia, ndiswrapper, etc.
• Flash: This is the second attempt to update to Flash 10. Please report any problems with the audio and we will go back to the stable version 9 again.
• Kernel version: 2.6.26.8-elive-686 (revision 41)

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 else that you wish to report. Help us to make Elive even better and increase the speed of our 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 1.9.37

This release includes major bugfixes

• Xorg: Fixed a bug in the generation of the xorg.conf file.
• JFS: Fixed an important and known bug about the JFS root partition mounted as RO. This is due by a wrong check of the battery level in a laptop when the user was in battery mode, if you see again this bug please report it.
• Aufs: An important update of the Aufs module (RW layer in live mode), this brings us with a lot better stability of the live mode (doesn't affect at the installed mode).
• Installer: Again some misc fixes on the installer.
• Kernel version: 2.6.26.8-elive-686 (revision 41)

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 else that you wish to report. Help us to make Elive even better and increase the speed of our 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 1.9.33

This version includes updates and fixes

• Bugs: A good number of bugs have been closed from http://bugs.elivecd.org
• Keyboard: added support for configuring the console mode
• Debian repository: New sync with Debian's snapshot repository, resulting in a lot of updates (lenny)
• Kernel updated with new patches (2.6.26.8-elive-686 (revision 41))

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 else that you wish to report. Help us to make Elive even better and increase the speed of our 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 1.9.32

We are very glad to announce this version of Elive, because it includes the very waited bugfixes for net-connector (our networks configurator), thanks to LinuxNIT, the author.

• Net-connector: All the bugs found are fixed, and also a few extra features.
• Synaptic: The launcher (icon) of synaptic is fixed, so you can add it to your bar for example.
• Hibernation: There's a another even better rewritement for the hibernation system, more exactly for the swap partitions management.
• Installer: The list of bugs and features to implement on the installer is almost finished, you can report now any bug with the installer if you found any one :)
• Intel Resolutions: Better resolutions detection for Intel graphic cards.
• Kernel version: 2.6.26.8-elive-686 (revision 40)

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 else that you wish to report. Help us to make Elive even better and increase the speed of our 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 1.9.31

The development for the next Stable version 2.0 continues with lots of work being put in all the time.

• USB Live: A tool to make your USB stick an Elive bootable live system !
• Acer Aspire One: Perfectly supported, also with a special tool to disable the fan when not needed (very noisy in the bed)
• Flash: Flash updated to the version 10.0.22.87
• Console: Better characters for the console mode, more languages supported, smaller font size for console.
• Music: Elive Essence is back ! from your Audio menu, also, your Music folder is full of the best music for you, the best for work, for play, or for relaxation.
• Audio Player: Ok, we have finally moved from XMMS to Audacious !, it is almost the same but using gtk2 instead of gtk1, also, with a lot more new code and plenty of more features. All the dependencies of it moved as well (e17 hotkeys, applications calls, thunar default applications, mimetypes, autolaunchers, etc), on the other hand, we can say good-bye to the amazing JESS plugin for xmms.
• Russian support is now fixed thanks to a report that someone made, if you have problems with other languages, what are you waiting for? Report it! :)
• Installer
  • Fixes: A lot of misc fixes, specially for those who wanted to use the upgrade mode with a dedicated /home partition, this feature is working again thanks to the report of KC.
  • Features: Apart from a lot of new internal features, there are some others, such as the one where you can now enjoy having your E17 backgrounds/themes/bar saved in your reinstallations As well as a better and more stable way to detect additional operating systems in order to put them in your grub menu. Please report any operating systems not added to your grum menu, especially windows.
• Kernel version: 2.6.26.8-elive-686 (revision 40)

Note that this is a DEVELOPMENT version.

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.