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Just wanted to say that I love ELIVE! I just got it installed and have been toying with it for an hour or so, and I have 0 complaints so far. My only issue is getting wireless working, and thats only because Broadcomm sucks for not making a linux driver like every other wireless chipset maker. Anyway, I will try to post here as much as possible with issues, fixes, and ideas as they crop up. With the community's help this could be the greatest OS Distro EVER!

THANKS ELIVE TEAM!


Phreaky.

Elive is definitely the best looking distributions available. It uses the Enlightenment desktop environment. I have never used Enlightenment before. The ELIVE default desktop is absolutely gorgeous! The stars in the sky twinkle and move throughout the very nice looking background. The application dock at the bottom of the screen is cute, in fact better than Mac OSX. I am soon gonna switch over to Elive. I love it.

Keep up the good work Thanatermesis. You have done a fantastic job by producin


cool_penguin.

I have been impressed with Elive and e17 for quite a while...

Yesterday I did two things:

1. I re-installed Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

2. I installed a dual boot to Elive Gem 1.0

Both installs went without event, I was most impressed with how Elive set up a custom grub menu, with the 3 options:

1. Elive Gem 1.0

2. Windows XP Media Center Edition

3. Memory Diagnostic test

I was also impress


rax tux.

Last year I downloaded a Elive CD and was pretty amazed by it. although it did crash alot but I saw the potential :)

Now, a few month's ago I bought a HP DV9064ea and I thought by myself let's give elive another run and everything runs out of the box once you install it, unbelievable even the integrated webcam seems to function.

Great job with this fine distro :)


cenobyte.

When Vista came out, that's when I said,"I have had enough of Windows!".

It gets me that every time Microsoft comes out with a new OS, might as well throw the old one out. Linux is so expandable and we all work together to come out with things as sweet as Elive!


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Burn a CD, boot your MacBook with it and enjoy your Elive system in the better dedicated configurations made, we are near of the Stable version, that means if you see any BUG, report it inmediately to the forum Thanks!

Interested Testers are welcome on the IRC Freenode channel #elivemac
your tests are very important for the developement a better system


  • WebCam: Working good and directly, but only with applications that use v4l2 (many applications use only v4l), you can view it with the command mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2 -fps 15 , for now you can use ekiga with it (old gnomemeeting), we also hope amsn supports it soon!
  • Audio: Multi-audio system working, you can watch youtube between the music and a video are playing on other desktop and you have audio applications working and anything what-you-want
  • Wireless: Working good with experimental madwifi driver, ndiswrapper is added also but don't use it, ndiswrapper can freeze your computer (with any wifi card, not only on macbooks), the network via LAN works also without problems, of course :)
  • IR remote control: Works perfectly and with predefined actions, you can change it on the e17 hotkeys configuration
  • Backlight and Volume keys: Works by pressing the key Fn in conjunction with the Backlight or Volume keys.
  • Kernel optimized for MacBooks and patched for that special hardware
  • Other hardware: Bluetooth, iPod's, Firewire, usb's, dvd device... all working
  • Games: Neverball is a very addictive 3D platform marble game, but on this version of Elive you can use the laptop to interact with the platform of the game. That means you can manipulate the marble by MOVING YOUR MACBOOK FROM SIDE TO SIDE!!!
  • Mouse pad:
    • You have the middle and 3rd button enabled on the pad, this is a pretty ingenious hack, the top left corner is the middle button and the top right corner is the 3rd button
    • Vertical Scroll and Horizontal Scroll enabled on the right and the bottom of the pad, also. If you press the pad with 2 fingers, you can scroll (for example pages in firefox) vertically and horizontally
    • A very annoyning glitch on the mousepad of the macbooks is fixed...when typing you accidentally hit the button and your mouse goes all over the screen, changing your window and making clicks ins strange areas... this problem is solved on the special version of Elive which disables the mouse, 1 second after your last click on the keyboard
    • You can drag-n-drop only with the touchpad (without clicks on the button)
    • Clicks and movements fine-tuned for macbooks
  • Keyboard: The keyboards of the MacBooks are very peculiar and lack some very useful and needed keys, this is how Elive solves that problem:
    • Left Apple button is equivalent to AltGr
    • Right Apple button is equivalent to the "windows" key (a hotkey often used like other extra hotkeys in Elive)
    • Fn + Delete is your Supr. key
    • Fn + Arrows: PageUp / PageDown, Home and End buttons
    • Fn + F1/F2: Backlight control
    • Fn + F3/F4/F5: Mute and Volume control
    • Eject button working with umount to automatically eject the device



If you have a MacBook computer and you've been discourage in the past by Linux installs and configurations that don't work... then run Elive for MacBooks as a LiveCD and if you are satisfied, install Elive on the hard disk for your main system. Elive is tuned primarily as a distribution rather than a LiveCD. What's can be better than a Linux distro optimized and configured exactly for your machine ?

Elive is made for Low Hardware requirements, but you wouldn't believe how light and remarkably fast it is on that little mac, I'm thinking of selling my Amd64 machine to get a newer Macbook =)



Be Enlightened, you'll have more News very soon, stay tuned!



Note: If you have problems with your Wireless WEP passkey, we recommend to use
this snapshot version of Elive or to update the kernel to at least the version 2.6.27





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