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)

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)

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)

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.

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!

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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

Im going to remove the subdomain repository.elive-systems.com and debian.elive-systems.com, so if you are using it, please change it to us.repository.elive-systems.com and us.debian.elive-systems.com, also, my friend ikevin has just finished to set up the big repository mirror for Europe, using the very powered icedslash servers, so if you are in europe, you will use europe.repository.elive-systems.com and europe.debian.elive-systems.com instead the US ones for a faster repository :)

I want to thank ikevin for all his collaboration in Elive since long time ago, with the primary mirror of ISOs and now, a mirror of the (big) repository of Elive.

Talking with him today i have just found on the main page of Icedslash his very cheap options, by only 1 euro per month it is possible to have a small webhosting, the next time that i will need to host a small website for me or any friend i will try to remember this nice option :)

Update: This is only meant for the repositories of the development versions, the Stable Gem version doesn't need to change repositories