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Well im sure everyones probably been hearing all the hype about the new Elive 1.0 stable release, and all the amazing reviews its been getting from websites like distrowatch and ...
- 07-12-2007 #1Linux Newbie
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Well im sure everyones probably been hearing all the hype about the new Elive 1.0 stable release, and all the amazing reviews its been getting from websites like distrowatch and softpedia.
After hearing all the good reviews i decided to download and give the live CD a try. Sadly before you can download it you must give a donation, personally i think this is not a donation it just the selling of a non-free product. Any ways i sadly don't have paypal or a credit card so i had to resort to downloading it via a very unofficial torrent.
That aside, im now posting from the elive live CD and so far i think its rather nice. Its very simple to navigate and its has a very different (yet non the less beautiful design). I'm quite impressed
It completely detected all my hard ware and loaded relatively quickly. As i said it looks nice, though getting use to using enlightenment will take some time - but i do think thats its still very simple and easy to use.
It has some nice little bits of eye candy that no other DE's have, like when you minimize a window it creates an icon on your desktop - instead of minimizing to a panel.
In conclusion, i think its and overall nice desktop that provides a refreshing change from the standard desktop environments. And im now planning to install it permanently, it will have to take the place of linux mint.
So anyone out there thinking of giving it a try please do and post here telling your personal thoughts on Elive.
P.S. if i did have a paypal account i do think i would have happily thrown them a few dollars to test out this new distro, its just i dont have an account and there free servers are down at the moment so i had to use a torrent.It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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did you try Austrumi? it is Slackware based, around 50MB download size and using Enlightenment only. its one of the best LiveCD i ever used and has very nice GUI.
its default language is Latvian and you can switch to English from Menu easily.It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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- 07-12-2007 #3Linux Guru
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How stable is their E17? E17 has some nice/cool features, but I have found it is currently pretty unstable...
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i have installed E17 from CVS through easy script in Debian Etch. its pretty stable.
Code:wget http://omicron.homeip.net/projects/easy_e17/easy_e17.sh
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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- 07-14-2007 #5Linux Newbie
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Heres a little puzzle im having trouble working out:
When running the elive live cd i went to the gnome partition manager and it displayed my first and second hard drives right but it also displayed what it was calling "hdc", a third hard drive. Problem is that i have no such drive, it said it was 1.09Gig. I checked to see if my ipod was connected but it wasn't!!
What is this third drive its seeing, i have no other drives plugged in - unless my printer, speakers or router have an extra 1.09gig drive no one told me about.
Plus the next time i ran the live cd it displayed the same three hard drives, including the mysterious 1.09gig drive. But this time it detected them as hde, hdf, hdg. Why not just start from "a" like normal?
Anyways, ive already installed it just fine and im actually quite enjoying it - im using it right now! Personally i think it was worth it to erase linux mint and replace with elive, im happy.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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check the output of fdisk -l and df -h commands.
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- 07-14-2007 #7Linux User
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Not to be cynical, but what does it offer that other distributions don't?
- 07-14-2007 #8Linux Newbie
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At first just having a working e16/17 desktop was enough to make elive stand out, but now they have their own control center and choice of apps to really complete it as a de. Enlightenment by it's self is just a wm. The elive project makes a full de centered around that wm. I'm not a big e17 user, but that is definitely a non-derivative interesting project different from the usual "take a famous distro and then add multimedia codecs" idea.
Originally Posted by Oxygen 
- 07-15-2007 #9Linux Newbie
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Exactly, after using elive for a few days now i can really see that all those little configuration apps, and the control panel, are priceless. And those apps only come with elive, i think. If you were to simply install E17 on ubuntu feisty (for example) it just wouldn't be as easy to use for beginners. Originally Posted by mahlerfan
And ill post the output of those commands (devils casper) when i get the time.It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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