The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.7.2

This release contains support for b43 wifi cards, a trayer, and a lot more things, details:

• Menus: This is the preliminary version of improved menus. They are better organized now, with more sections, and they should show any application that the user installs.
• b43 Wireless cards (bcm43xx) are better supported, with a suite to configure it asking for use ndiswrapper or linux native driver
• E17 Updated and improved configuration. More virtual desktops have also been included by default. The segfault bug in the pager is fixed in this version
• Tray First implementation of a trayer in Elive
• User Guide of Elive is updated (and translated to German) thanks to chattrhand
• Terminal and vim have improved functionality and looks

Thanatermesis proudly presents the Elive 1.7 development release!

After many silent weeks and relentless testing by our tireless users of the 1.6 and 1.6.2 development releases, we have now reached 1.7! So testers, line up at the iso check-out line and get to it! Thank you for all your hard work in helping me make Elive a better distro with every release!

• E17 menus [first try] ready! Some users have (while others have not), noted that the menus of E17 are ugly and incomplete, the feature of correct menus is now implemented on Elive
• Suspend / Hibernation: This is a feature that a lot of users have wanted on Elive for a long time. Now it is implemented by default, working simply out of the box if your computer supports these features. Enjoy it directly on your E17 menu or by closing the LID of your laptop!
• Icons: There's a bit of a workaround in the icon theme. Not finished yet, but looking a lot better :)
• Languages: In the boot options of the Live mode, the language selector menu is enabled by default again
• Translations: As you may know, there's a new tool to make translations in Elive called eltrans, we invite you to try it because it is very easy to use and fully graphical. Italian, Dutch and German users can see the boot messages of the live mode now on his language directly, thanks to: assasukasse, AlexAnteMachina, and awolters. More translators are wanted and welcome!
• Eject CD: fixed in the live mode, shutdown
• Autolaunchers: have been reimplemented
• Printer: issues fixed on elpanel
• Elpanel: also got a few updates
• Switched to ESU!: EFL version of Gksu, thanks to PrinceAMD
• Like always, There are more changes, but too minor or internal to mention here.

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.6

Thanatermesis releases Elive 1.6 dev with some interesting new features!

• New improved boot system of live mode (not finished)
• Icedove 2.0
• Much better disks and partitions self recognition (filesystems, etc)
• Your CD's can eject now without being umounted first
• Eltrans, the new translation tool for elive (eltrans is a powerful tool for any user that wishes to help with the translation process of Elive in his/her native language, it doesn't require any computer skills, it is almost fully automated, even the n00best user can translate freely with it). Note: If you want to use eltrans, update it to the version 1.2
• Resolutions selector re-enabled temporally
• EeePC modules for his acpi support (any EeePC tester?)
• Misc improved Windows support functions
• New usernames for the IRC, now contains the language keycode, like Elive_user5_pt (for portuguese)
• The Wifi (Wireless) widget called exalt is working again (thanks watchwolf!)
• The special version of Elive for MacBooks are going to be implemented on the normal Elive versions, so, this is the first compatible ISO
• New prompt!: Elive now uses a new prompt (the default line that appears in your terminals). Very similar to the old one but with more features. Let me explain these new features (please continue reading if you are a medium/advanced user): The new prompt now contains only the username and the actual directory address, but if you ssh into a remote machine (which needs to use elive or the same prompt), automatically the "@hostname" (where 'hostname' is the name of the remote machine) is added in your prompt; moreover, it does a fast calculation and assigns a different color for every hostname where you login. This way you know directly 'where' is this shell going just by looking at the terminal and you won't make ugly mistakes thinking that you are in your local computer for example. This prompt is made in the best way for copy-pasting an address from one terminal to other in order to send or copy files. There are other features disabled by default like a direct-color assigned to your favorite hostnames, or to have an audio signal played when a login is made in your computer (very useful if you want to know WHEN somebody (or something) has logged into your computer). These features are very useful for system admins, geeks, and a good measure of normal users; for all the rest, its just a beautiful prompt :)

The Elive Team is proud to announce the new development version 1.5 with big and important changes:

Big changes on Elive

• Debian Testing: Ever wanted more updated packages on Elive? ok, we switch to "Lenny" that has A LOT of packages (all?) are updated! We can't describe them all here, if you want more information about this switch, have a look at the actual ideas on this temporary page
  
  
• Elive installer: When you select a partition to install Elive on, and it already has a version of Linux on it (ANY version, and you want to replace it), and it uses a separate /home partition, there's an option to 'migrate' this system. This means that basic configurations and all the users with the files are transferred to your new Elive installation. Note: This feature is working but not fully implemented, we need testers, especially with ubuntu systems.
  
  
• More special hotkeys for special laptops working by default (we need testers!).
  
  
• Firefox: Nice feature that show thumbnails of the sites in your search results of google!
  
  
• A more integrated system of translations in Elive. Anybody is VERY welcome to be a translator, you just need to send a email to with a username and a password to use, Thank you for helping us with Elive and have it translated into your native language! :)

Happy New Year 2008!

and Happy Birthday Elive!

Contents:

Happy New 2008 and Elive Plans

Happy Birthday Elive !!!

Elive Shop

Some of our users have asked us where to get the "Stayin' Elive T-shirt" seen on this video, and we decided to give the users some nice Elive apparel and we have opened a Shop at CafePress. (if you know other better or cheaper service, tell us!) We are looking and making better eyecandy designs to make a good competetition to Armani and Versace :P, if you are a good designer, you are welcome to send us a good design idea for a t-shirt or other thing to . This is your chance to make the Elive tshirt you always dreamed about! :)

Big thanks to roxville and assasukasse to help to setting this shop up !

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.2.3

Seasons Greetings to all Elive users! The Elive Team is happy to announce the release of a new development version:

• This version of Elive includes even more stability and usability of the livecd mode, especially when you install applications or do a lot of stuff on it
• we have also switched to a newer 2.6.23.9 kernel while we wait the final release of 2.6.24 that Elive is going to use.
• The installer includes many useful and innovative new features that permit you to convert any Linux OS to a Elive system. If you have another linux installation on the partition where you want to install Elive, Elive automates the process by saving all your users, files, passwords, and minor system configurations. Note that this feature at the moment only works on systems that use a separate /home partition.

Contents:

Thanatermesis has now started working on the next development version of Elive

New Bonus Discs out!

Elive needs you!

Thanatermesis is looking for people who would like to help out with Elive.
This is what we need:

• C/EFL coders
• PHP coders for feature the website
• Graphical Designers, to work on interface design
  • Blender
  • GIMP
  • Inkscape
  • Edje coding
  • etc
• Translators! You can translate small pieces of Elive in your language

Contact:

#elive has started a "ideas-for-a-beer" program!
Come to the #elive IRC channel and give us your ideas on how to improve Elive, and you will get a FREE virtual beer (or red bull TM) in return!
Best wishes,
The Elive Team

We have switched to a new CMS !

It is called MODx, it looks verrrry good and very professional too. Take a look at their youtube video
If you want to see the old website, you can view it on http://old.elivecd.org

The bad news is that there is no support for other languages than english anymore (for now). We have to wait for modx to implement a multi-lingual system. We considered writing our own module but we think it's better to wait for modx to make one, for better implementation/compatibility

You'll notice the new website has the same look as the old one, yet it is totally different. We are hoping to make a more active website thanks to this new CMS!

If you read the Elive news by RSS, please update it!, the new RSS address is now http://elivecd.org/feed.xml

If you have an article about Elive on a web-blog, homepage, or any other website, please update your links, if you have not written an article on any website about Elive, please do so now!
We want to have the highest possible number of users in the world to know about Elive before the next release!


I want to say a big Thanks! to bentejuy for all his help in making this website work and for making features for it! :)


Now that I have finshed up with the website and stuff, I can continue working on the development of Elive.
And start implementing the very awaited and wanted new version of E17 on Elive by default!






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And it actually separes the news of the old website with the news of this new very good CMS system website !

That means: All the rest of the news are not actually imported, we hope to import the old news... maybe, if I found time

You can access to the old news from the old website, more exactly in the news section