- Windows: Your Windows partitions are now
recognized on /mnt like windows_c, windows_d, etc...
instead of hda, hdb, etc...
- Graphical Grub: A very nice graphical Grub
boot menu selector
- Webcams: When you plug in a webcam, a webcam
viewer is launched if it's supported, you can play with
special effects and you can scare your friends in aMSN
- The Elive User Guide added to your Documents
directory, (not finished but useful)
- aMSN: in the last version, more webcams
supported, looks a lot better, aliased fonts, better
skin, etc...
- Applications: All applications renamed and
re-ordered to be more intuitive for the end-user
- 7z: Elive now supports .7z (7zip) compressed
files, in other words... open it directly :).
- Fonts! a set of 20 misc TTF fonts has been
added to Elive by default for the user to play with and
use on the themes and look'n'feel.
- GTK Icons Theme selector In the GTK
configurator of Elpanel, you now have an icons theme
selector, Thanks LinuxNIT for coding this nice
application.
- Firefox 2: Now called iceweasel is
fully implemented, remember that thunderbird is now
called icedove too
- Flash 9: Supported
- Enlightenment Related Features
- Entrance Themes: Both themes (Elive and Night
look's), were revamped and enhanced for a better look
- Enlightenment: Disabled the flip desktops
when mouse is at screen edge feature by default
because it confuses the less-experienced users, you can
enable it from the enlightenment configuration menu (e16
and e17).
- Hotkeys: A lot of hotkeys were added and also
for some multimedia keyboards. You can find a good list
of HotKeys that will enhance your Elive experience in
your Documents directory
- Night look: New background like this
video, very nice for use on dual or more monitors.
- Swap File: Added a system to make Swap files
if the memory is less than 128 Mb, only for FAT
filesystems (Patches for ntfs-3g welcome)
- Installer: Better and more correct fine-tuned
system (post-install), launched from the graphical system
when user logs in
- Languages in the installer: Added thanks to
the translator collaborations (soon more things available
to translate)
- Boot menu: 'Vista' detected and added in the
boot menu after the installation
- Boot menu: A much better list of other OS's
- Select manual partitions when the installer
asks you for your desired partitions, you can enter it
manually now, even ones not included on the list
- JFS support: You have a new FileSystem of
choice, JFS, a great filesystem that many users love.
- Extra Help: Now you have a extra help in the
installer, which is perfect for the non-experienced
users...explaining how to partition the hard disk better
etc... Translators needed here
- Installer Features: If you have broken the
grub on your MBR thanks to windows, the
installer autodetects it and ask you to recover the one
from your Elive system instead of installing again. So,
if you want to recover the grub for any reason, just
launch the installer from root like: eliveinstaller
recover my grub please
- Kernel 2.6.18:
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- CK patches: Those patches make the
priority of and the memory between process work much
better.
- 1000 Hz: Better for desktop usage, better
reply of the applications
- Realtime usage: This is especially good
for musical compositors
- Low Latency mode: Applications don't have
lag if you load your system with many processes.
- Kqemu added: The kernel accelerator module
for qemu is added in Elive by default thanks
to the permission of the author
- Epson Scanner: A new Scanner application for
some Epson scanners
- iPod: Supported in the better way
- Swiss keyboards: Supported in the configurator
of Elpanel, for french and german variants
- Resolution 1440x900 Added
- DV Video Camera: Permission enabled to use
kino with your cam-recorder for a normal user.
- NTFS and FAT32: Everybody can write, read, and
modify, you can do anything
- Entrance: The no-login problem that
some users have experienced when they try to login on
entrance and don't enter a wrong password.
Fixed
- DVD autolaunchement: Oxine didn't play DVD's.
Fixed
- Autolaunchers: not all the USB cards, SMC or
SD cards are autolaunched. Fixed
- Gimp can't print. Fixed
- Burners: not possible to make an image of a
DVD. Fixed
- Gparted: hang due to the module floppy.
Fixed
- Gimp: not launching and freezing on the step
xsane. Fixed
- Usb sticks: problem of the very slow
speed in transfer of archives. Fixed
- Audio CDs: just some Audio CD's work.
Fixed
- Mplayer: Zoom, Fullscreen, and Play, doesn't
work Fixed
- More: Many more bugs were fixed and things
made better...not listed here, but you can explore all
the bugs in the BTS of
Elive
- CDROM ejects when closing the liveCD system
- Anti War: Section 'Anti War' of the bookmarks
of Elive removed due to misc reasons, if you want it, see
it in the Revolution version of Elive
- Cinelerra updated: With some fixes and new
hotkeys added (up/down - left/right in
compositor/viewer),
list of hotkeys
- More: A lot more of features and minor things,
not listed here
If you have any problem, don't forget to take a look
in the BTS of Elive
 We hope you appreciate all the work
involved in building this system ...
Feel free
to give feedback, you can contact us on IRC:
#elive on FreeNode
Elive is development software state so don't
expect things to work perfectly on the first shot. We
hope so but you've been warned :)
- We decline any responsability for any damage caused
by software you could find on this site -
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