Elive General News

Elive 2.1.40 development released

Elive — Sun, 05 May 2013 23:26:30 -0700

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.40

This version includes some misc features like:

Updated to the stable release of Debian Wheezy
Engage now works much better with composite and non-composite modes
noop scheduler configured by default for SSD disks if they are detected
Updatd to the last terminology version 0.3
Online applications added like: khan academy, tedx, and codeschools which is a friendly way to introduce and learn programming languages
Improved autodetection for user language

And the best is yet to come!

We appreciate your feedbacks about the overall speed/lightness of the system compared to last stable version of Elive. You can say something in our chat channel directly from the running system. If you detect any lagging in the system please consider different setups like disabling composite (which you can select on the startup of the graphical system) in order to report improvements. We would also appreciate feedbacks about composite enabled or disabled in old computers, suggestions for better performances, and memory usage compared to Topaz.

Note that these development releases don't include the Elive Installer yet because it's not ready, we also didn't include the proprietary drivers for now (Nvidia/fglrx) but the opensource drivers should detect your hardware and configure your system perfectly.

You can Download this version at the development section.
Please remember that this is an alpha version of Elive which is uncomplete and may have errors, if you want to see a polished result of Elive try the Stable version instead.
Give us a comment in our chat channel, you can also improve Elive by yourself in github. Help us to make Elive even better!

"Dream your life. Elive your dream"

Elive 2.1.37 development released

Elive — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:12:50 -0700

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.37

This version includes some misc features like:

Automatic language and timezone configurations based on your physical location
E17 updated to the new released version with lots of bugfixes
E17 improvings in the automated positioning of windows in the desktop
Suspend ready
Fixed an important bug in the e17 menus
Fixed a bug with Intel cards when the screen is blanking

Elive 2.1.33 development released

Elive — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:48:16 -0700

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.33

This version includes some misc features like:

Google Talk plugin included, you can now do calls with voice and video
Very much improved way to connect to the internet, with sorting by signal and a complete set of features for any need
Improved elive tools, with detection of your city and timezones without requiring a GPS
E17 fixes for keyboard, GL detection and Night mode

Elive 2.1.32 development released

Elive — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:07:57 -0800

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.32

This version includes some misc features like:

Completed redesign of the Focus system
Special mode for e17 called night reading, which inverts the colors of your screen making the reading much more comfortable
Created another mode called sleep, which turns your computer off in a specific time of the day or in a countdown value, configurable for each day and with different types of halting
Moved from xine to vlc for playing DVDs
Integrated compatibility of different file-managers with the default one
Zenity sizes of the box fixed

Elive 2.1.31 development released

Elive — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:11:07 -0800

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.31

This version includes some misc features like:

Experimental redesign of the focus system of Enlightenment, a better focus remember-list and the ability to remember focus across desktops
Switch from xine to vlc
Faster startup of e17 first configuration
Some misc appplications added for a more complete OS

Elive 2.1.27 development released

Elive — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:54:59 -0800

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.27

This version includes some misc features like:

Multiple improvements in e17 and startup configurations
Persistence feature where you can save your data in live mode! explained here
Better list of languages supported with their required fonts
Elive now supports more languages than before.
Audio cards features including better recognition, improved volumes, mic working by default for applications like skype
Now using syslinux to boot the ISO's, this greatly increases the number of computers Elive can boot on.
Included new Wine version 1.5.22 to support a wider range of Windows applications.

Elive 2.1.23 development released

Elive — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:54:43 -0800

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.23

The world has not ended, so now... Be Elive!

We are very excited to announce this very-early first development version of Elive and there are many reasons why we are excited! First, we want to remind you that the reason why nothing has been published yet about Elive is that there were a few things to be rewritten to ensure an overall stable system, which will make other programs more compatible and ensures this version works independently well. New ISOs can be built everyday!

And that's not all! Secondly, we have AMAZING new features coming, compared to the last version of Elive Stable 2.0 Topaz, but you need to keep in mind that this is the first development version, and it's still in an early alpha stage. We know that there are a few things to finish, so don't expect it to be working perfectly just yet. At this point in development we are more interested in your feedbacks about system optimization rather than bug reports. For now we will list the new features, which with the special collaboration with PrinceAMD, we are improving in many ways. This is a brief summary of what you can find:

The final stable release of Enlightenment 17!
Improvements in E17 like "focus remember", or an emodule for productivity (style pomodoro with window controls)
Composite and transparencies even in older computers without 3D accelaration, and other good features even when not in use
Very efficient and fast overall system
Allows for better resolution in older computers where it was once not possible to play high quality videos due to resources required (includes HD videos in h264)
Perfect screen sincronization in video playback.
Kernel 3.2.0 supporting older computers, which means that new computers will be supported too
Recent and updated applications
Lots of packages like libreoffice ready for giving a complete suite to the end-users
Extremely useful new tools made by Elive, like: bkp, waitfor, elivepaste, showmyip, etc...
A enlightened terminal with a great demo

As we have already said, we will appreciate feedback about the overall speed/lightness of the system compared to last stable version of Elive. You can also comment on it in our chat channel directly from the running system. If you detect any lagging in the system please consider different setups like disabling composite (which you can select on the startup of the graphical system) in order to report improvements. We would also appreciate feedback on the speed/responsiveness of the system, especially with the composite enabled and disabled, suggestions for better performances, and memory usage compared to Topaz.

For this development release the Elive Installer is not ready and proprietary drivers (Nvidia/fglrx) are not included. But the opensource drivers should detect your hardware and configure your system perfectly.

Just when you were thinking that nothing would surprise you, here is Elive on its first presentation... the best is yet to come!

Please remember that this is an alpha version of Elive. You can Download the ISO at the development section

Give us a comment in our chat channel, you can also improve Elive by yourself in github. Help us to make Elive even better!

"Dream your life. Elive your dream"

Newsletter: Updates, Elive, Debian, and Enlightenment

Elive — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:00:04 -0800

LinuxConf Barcelona and Enlightenment

Raster and other main developers of Enlightnment talked and presented some things about EFL/Enlightenment, they talked about the future features where they want to focus like a totally integrated composite in E17 itself, there was fun, trolling, and beer. I got a very beatiful towel with the enlightenment logo!

Yesterday in the LinuxCon in Barcelona, Mike Blumenkrantz announced the date for the release of Enlightenment 17, they decided to made a beta release at first of December and the stable release for the day 21 of December, I don't know what will happen if we wake up the day 22 and we still here (joking).

Elive and Future releases

Some people thinks that there's no activity on the Elive development, that's normal since they don't see any activity, but there is a lot of it, a lot of work is happening in the background, to prove it you can see a development ISO in the Development section, but I don't suggest to download it so its not ready for any useful user usage, it only includes updated kernel, updated enlightnement, and only the new enlightened terminal and development tools installed, it was originally made as a temporal need for development so its not useful at all and doesn't give any Elivized experience. By other side this means: new development versions are coming very soon! stay tuned!

Debian is also going to release very soon, nobody knows the date, I suspect that it will be in a month or so, Elive is going to use the new Wheezy future stable release as base, so this is another reason of why Elive needs to be released asap! :)

Development

Every day more sources of Elive are being worked from the the github repositories, so if you feel motivated and have some knowledge, you can try to improve them!

See you for now! Until the next development release of Elive!
Thanatermesis

Save the Internet

Elive — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:27:09 -0800

Do you know that the US government is trying to approve a law that blocks, censor, and blacklist internet ?

This is something that many people knew that would happen sooner or later, why ? because internet is the most important communication tool that the humanity has had all over the history, communication is evolution, is a purely free share of knowledge, and the governments don't want people with knowledge, they need non-thinking people like in ancient times of the humanity. But this is going to change they like it or not, , we are evoluting, and even capitalism needs smart people now, and this is a non-stop process that will continue happening naturally, but only if we have free internet.

Internet created the "open source software" and all its entire development is thanks to free communication between people. Capitalism doesn't like open source very much, and it will be very easy to erradicate it from the world by blocking those related things on internet. If you think that you are smart enough to use Proxy's and things like that, you should know that in those laws they declare it ilegal, so you will go to the jail by using a proxy. There are lots of details about this on internet.

It is not a matter of what is correct and what not, it's a matter of being free in a world manipulated by the monetary interests, we want to stay free, we are evoluting, we want to continue doing that. You should know that internet is one of the most important things that the humanity has got since centuries, so if you think that you need to exige your freedom, this is the moment.

Please sign yourself in http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?copy and other places, share this article with everybody, I have do it in the Elive website, you can do it with your contacts, in your social networks, everywhere... because NOW is the moment, because those laws are going to be decided these days. We need to act NOW.

Spanish article: http://alt1040.com/2011/11/sopa-estados-unidos-decide-manana-el-futuro-de-internet

Elive Website

Elive — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:39:19 -0700

Would You Like a New Elive Website ?

We are considering migrating the current Elive website to a Wordpress based one!

Why? Well, I personally like a lot MODx, and even if I recommend it to everybody, there are several reasons for this change: A lot of people think that there isn’t much activity on the Elive project, mainly because the website is never updated. The website is based on MODx, which is amazing, but is better when there is an active administrator or somebody featuring it, it's like a mix between cms and framework where you can build a really very good website, it has a very good made and structured code and you will end in a excelent result, reliable and stable for long time, the only bad points of it is that is not very used by the community, this means that has not very much plugins, in other words, you can't use the multitude of plugins made by the community making the website more dynamic. Wordpress has a multitude of plugins. For example, I have found a very nice plugin that translates the website into multiple languages using Google Translator and it also gives the users the ability to correct the translation, which is pretty nice!

A more dynamic website means more news. It will be easier to post and manage content, as well as add polls. There are top-quality templates that will improve the look of the Elive website. More specifically, the new website will feature:

A pretty nicer look, more professional and dynamic for our contents
Translations to any language (we will need your collaboration to have it correctly translated in yours :))
More easy to add contents, this means, more howtos, tips, and instructions
Nicer screenshots!
More features, like polls, RSS, bookmark / share

To migrate our website, we will need first to import our current plugins to the wordpress API and find some possible workarounds with the CSS. Stay tunned to the Elive News to see the first versions of the new website! We will discuss about it, about suggestions, and about errors, and all related to the new website on this forum thread.

So you might see a completely new Elive Website in the future. Don't think that it was hacked! it was just moved :)

Thanatermesis