The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.9.5 This new version includes: Designs: Great improvements in the designs for the stable release! Overall cleanup, lots of transparent elements, logo animated at start, shadows 3d effect, clock design, you can see a preview here! Unique Features: The borders has now 4 buttons instead of 3, and there's a hidden one that appears when a window cannot be closed Effects: The visual effects stability is improved specially in the Live mode and there's a fix forSEE DETAILS

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 goodSEE DETAILS

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 from our own 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,SEE DETAILS

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 andSEE DETAILS

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 ofSEE DETAILS

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 includedSEE DETAILS

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 windowsSEE DETAILS

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,SEE DETAILS

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 takeSEE DETAILS

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.SEE DETAILS