Elive 2.9.0 beta released

April 21, 2017

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.9.0 This new version includes:

Persistence is now featured in Elive where you can save your personal files, configurations, passwords, extra software installed, etc. It includes unique features like guided setup, the option to encrypt your persistence partition, statistic of usage, automated cleanup of temporal files when the persistence partition is full, desktop settings saved in unique profiles per machine to improve the compatibility among different computers.

Netsurf as an ultra-light graphical web browser, a very good alternative for low resources.

Improvements: Automatic disabling of touchpad taps for one second while you are writing text

Bugs fixed: Thunar unmounting devices without show an error of device busy. Eltrans has the counter of translated sentences fixed. Installer bugfix in automated partitioning

Notes from the Developers:

Persistence: After a long development we finally integrated full Persistence features in …

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Elive 2.8.8 beta released

By Thanatermesis on

March 31, 2017

- Beta

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.8.8 This new version includes:

Screenshots can be uploaded and shared again, now in our specific Elive servers

Designs: The amazing old dark theme Lucax is back and included by default, with the fonts for the menus fixed.

Nvidia graphic cards installation improved and some fixes for the ATI (fglrx) ones

Windows applications compatibility greatly improved by switching to a recent version of Wine

Geolocated automatic time configurations improved

Newer versions of: Libreoffice, darktable, cpu microcodes, git, printer configurations, wine

Improvements: Default audio volumes increased. Default messages and translations. Elive translator tool. Xterm default configuration and colors improved.

Elive Menu: A new menu of applications has been added for all the Elive specific things, and a submenu on it for Extra features where you can found helpers, installers, or anything extra that can improve

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Elive 2.8.6 beta released

By Thanatermesis on

March 10, 2017

- Beta

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.8.6 This is such an amazing release with a great amount of improvements and fixes, it also includes:

Incredible improvements in live performance making it twice fast!

Designs: Updated designs with a redesign of the menu, a pager less obtrusive and more handy, redesigned the animated stars wallpaper, bigger shadows with a three-dimensional effect when they are focused, the dock has now better readability with smoother effects to have a more friendly usage.

Compiz: Improved stability and configurations to have good eye-candy in combination with speed and useful features, a very old and important bug was finally fixed making it a stable environment for daily work

Audio cards configuration fixed

Integrated gadget in the desktop to have a more handy access and use of your inserted media’s like an USB or CDROM

Improved boot menu with more

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Elive 2.8.0 beta released

By Thanatermesis on

February 10, 2017

- Beta

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.8.0 This new version includes:

Designs preview feature included

Gimp much improved with a more intuitive and useful interface, expanded navigation and direct access to handy tools

Fixes in the desktop stability and performance bottleneck that was caused by a small cache

Ebook creator tool from web articles greatly improved(cli)

Thumbnails for Epub and Mobi files

Welcome panel with multiple fixes

Timezone and Time compatibility with shared Windows systems and improvements in the detection and re-using of configurations

Remember:

We need your feedback, each new beta version could include things not working as expected, if is the case please contact us so that we can fix the problem asap.

The beta versions are not so optimized as the Stable ones due to debug flags and developer profiles, its also less beautiful and less ready for the end …

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Make Elive 3.0 a Reality

By Thanatermesis on

December 1, 2016

- News

I had a dream Where Elive 3.0 was released, with many more features and completely cost free, where much more people was able to use it, and where thousands of forgotten computers revived with a refreshed system… But it was only a dream? What could mean if the next stable version will be cost free? But It depends on you Since I created Elive, my purpose has been to build a complete and featured system that specially helps people with low resources around the world. I have spend more than 12 years of my life making Elive and during all this time I have been using my limited resources that made it imposible to finish the next version. While computer industries push us to buy the last products, there’s thousands of students around the world that struggles with their computers, running slower every day and making their learning inefficient,…

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Elive 2.7.8 beta released

By Thanatermesis on

October 14, 2016

- Beta

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.7.8 This new version includes:

Fixed an important segfault that made the graphical system to restart randomly in the previous version

Font sizes improved and fixed a bug that made the fonts to display very big in some computers

Blender Works again including the last version of blender available with the correct Glibc version

Links2 web browser included for old computers and set the configuration to not be the default one when opening urls

Extra Packages included to improve the final system, like improved GL drivers and rendering, printer configuration, i386 optimizations, better fonts for asian languages, screen blanking recovery from suspension

Stronger structure to login in the graphical system on the live mode

Desktop icons improved and fixed a very old bug that displayed them broken in previous versions

Included torrent to download all the history

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Elive 2.7.6 beta released

By Thanatermesis on

September 7, 2016

- Beta

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.7.6 This new version includes:

elive welcome panel included for the live mode

amazing speedup when launching some applications (read notes)

new applications included by default: hardare information viewer, links2 (much more lightweight web browser)

fixed bugs: terminal hangs, eltrans (translator accounts requesting), an old bug in e17 which started with wrong icons set, live boot misc auto-detections and configurations like qemu

installer improvements: shell for installed mode is now zsh and not bash, detection of windows and other operating systems listed when installed, internet connection asking experience improved

Notes from the Developers:

speed-up launching: When you run the applications by the first time they takes some time to start, for example the chromium browser takes 9.3 seconds, so I was playing with magical voodoo precaching techniques and it was improved to be only 3.6 …

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Elive 2.7.2 beta released

By Thanatermesis on

August 14, 2016

- Beta

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.7.2 This new version includes:

Spotify works directly on the fly on your Elive system!

Designs: much much improved designs for the icons and theme, see details at continuation

fixes: thunar opens terminology as default terminal, admin mode works back too

Gimp includes a much better and improved default configuration like single window mode or an increased number of undeletes

Notes from the Developers:
Designs: There’s a big work, but not yet finished, about the designs, specially for the icon set of Elive, this includes things like default filetypes associated to icons and a really big rethinking about the intuitiveness of the widget icons, like the icon for delete things which none of the red icons similar to a warning or a stop signal are more intuitive than a small trash icon, the icons …

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Elive 2.7.1 beta released

By Thanatermesis on

July 24, 2016

- Beta

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.7.1 This new version includes:

Audacity (audio wave editor) included by default

Timezone detection improved

Detector of systems improved and updated to detect last windows installed systems

Linux Kernel updated with a lot of new patches for new hardware, bugfixes and improvements

Google Voice search on internet using your microphone

Notes from the Developers:

Stable soon?: Short answer: yes. I have been working in the two last months in big internal changes which pushed me to take a soon decision on the stable version. You will receive more news about this soon!

Remember:

We need your feedback, each new beta version could include things not working as expected, if is the case please contact us so that we can fix the problem asap.

The beta versions are not so optimized as the Stable ones due to …

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Elive 2.6.18 beta released

By Thanatermesis on

March 17, 2016

- Beta

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.6.18 This new version includes:

Blender is updated to the last version (+ 2.76.211)

Big improements with the time compatibility in computers that shares a windows operating system, please report your experience

Installer: compatbility and improvements in speed and overall experience, minor bugfixes with fallback oprtions

Remember:

We need your feedback, each new beta version could include things not working as expected, if is the case please contact us so that we can fix the problem asap.

The beta versions are not so optimized as the Stable ones due to debug flags and developer profiles, its also less beautiful and less ready for the end users, you can encounter errors or uncomplete things, if you want a more polished system try the Stable version instead.

“Dream your life.
Elive your dream”

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