The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.9.90
LAST BETA version before the Stable release!



This new version includes:

Speed and lightness improved with special configurations allowing to install in computers with very low resources, tested with less than 256 MB of RAM

Health extra features included with a checker for critical temperature shutdowns, a feature that free some space on the disk when is almost full so that the user will never end in an unbootable system and also there’s a guided tool for it that helps the user to free more space, there’s also added an application to restart to a new desktop configuration

Designs improved for temperature readability, color for the selected menu, unfocused borders are much darker and readable, dock will not show anymore uninstalled applications and the bumpy effect is removed, launcher is more intuitive for its typing feature,

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This new version includes:

Greatly improved designs for clock and battery, clock is shown by default, the battery includes intuitive colors useful for show the status

Improved initial configurations for hardware accelerated features with optimal autodetections and skipping in not supported ones like virtualmachines

Lock screen: greatly improved design and a small fix included for wrong passwords attempts

Massive rewrite of keyboard bindings greatly improved for a stable and productive system, all the media keys from special keyboards are assigned to the best launchers and features

Desktop application launchers improvements, fixes and new includes, a new application is included to restart to a new clean desktop configuration, improved ebook support

Persistence: improved speed disabling some disk usage

Public folder sharing fixed

“Dream your life.
Elive your dream”

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The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.9.22 This new version includes:

Keyboard typing to support special languages like Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese. If you need an extra Ibus configuration contact us with the details needed

Network access to your local machines using hostname.local

Numpad always enabled option in installation

Desktop right click is assigned to an amazing launcher

Designs shadow fix, borders more white, less pixelated icons in menus, much improved menus and userfriendly, misc overall improvements

Userfriendly better organized menus, more friendly icons and names, improved description for the dock launchers

“Dream your life.
Elive your dream”

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The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.9.16 This new version includes:

Performance is now almost twice as responsive and smoother, videos also plays faster

Designs improved buttons, window borders, and faster effects

Desktop automatic scaling, font selection and sizing based on your screen, organization of elements are more accessible too

Installer has a lot of improvements, fixes, fine-tuning and options to choice for the installed system, included privative drivers like Nvidia / Ati

Notes from the Developer:

2.9.16 is a very improved version based on the hard work on the last versions with tons of fixes, fine-tuning and improvements, making it more friendly and stable. I hope you enjoy this version!

“Dream your life.
Elive your dream”

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The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.9.14 This new version includes:

Nvidia / ATI works on the installed system thanks to the reports of the users

Fonts automated selection and sizing based in your type of screen, resolution and dpi, also includes desktop scaling factor

Performance multiple improvements in: encrypted installations, compiling flags, release mode, optimized effects, ARGB calculations disabled for borders, much faster and responsive desktop, reduced temporal writes in the Live mode, switched to dash in some daemons to reduce low memory usage.

USB tool to record live medias in the most easiest and secure way, here’s a little video

Processes watcher improved detecting and dealing with stuck processes or that may consume your cpu or memory

Terminology don’t crash anymore when opening new tabs

Designs has tons of improvements

Notes from the Developer:

This release includes a ton of polishments …

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.9.12 This new version includes:

Performance: Desktop and effects has been increased to at least the 194 % more fast and smoother than before, video playback is also much smoother and fast.

Installer: The Elive installer has been refactored and includes lots of fixes and improvements, also a validator of username, password and hostname characters allowed, browser fix, entirely cost-free install and easier installation process

Audio cards detection and configuration improved

Wifi connections automatically pop up if there’s available connections and you are not connected to internet

Dock is improved with active opened windows access and controls

Iconified windows now includes their name in the icon

Wallpapers automated switching is improved to a single loop now

Translations has been improved, proofreaded and with clearer messages

BTS The new Bug Tracking System website is ready! all

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The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.9.8 This new version includes:

System: thanks to lots of improvements in the installer you can free up to 3 GB of the installed system and make the memory usage lighter up to 100 MB only, with the full desktop running

User Manager: includes now autologin features and sudo configuration

Fonts: added a perfect selection of fonts for different purposes, also other ones for programming and small sizes, improved selection of international languages compatibility and removed unneeded ones

Desktop: improved gadgets distribution and compatibility, the disks gadget only shows the removable devices by default now

Installer: lots of bugfixes and improvements, extra options to remove unnecessary things, it supports now SSD over PCIe (nvme) hard disks, blank boot fix, automated partitioning and encryption options improvements, integrated tool to automatically report bugs, better reliability, upgrade mode from older

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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 …

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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