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posted by martyb on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the stand-by-for-more-disappointments! dept.

What is Elive?
Elive is a non-commercial, cost-free operating system made for the daily use, a much faster, friendlier, and feature-rich replacement of your high cost and low effective default system.

Turn your old equipment, up to 15 years old into a high performance machine with an interface that dazzles anyone who sees it. Customized to meet your needs while keeping it lightweight and beautiful using minimal hardware requirements.

In literally less than 2 minutes Elive runs without the need to install it , choose the language and the desired options to get the maximum performance, or just let Elive to select the best options for you.

Because the user experience is our priority, it provides a very intuitive experience where anybody can use it from the first time, using simple interfaces not saturated of options and with tons of automations.

Elive is a very stable and reliable system based in Debian that will work day after day without problems. The customized Enlightenment desktop is ultra-fast and perfectly stable, with no random errors or surprises.

It comes with a full suite of applications, whether for work or for pleasure. It offers everything from a complete Office suite, tools, games and multimedia. You can enjoy watching movies or making your own. Professional video edition, graphic designing, media center, or even recover files from formatted disks. Make 3D animations, edit and manipulate audio and image files in always the best quality.

Oriented for novice and advanced users which can find incredibly useful tools inside, for desktop usage, laptops, schools or enterprises.

https://www.elivecd.org/

The first disappointment, there is no 64 bit version available.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by urza9814 on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:30PM (1 child)

    by urza9814 (3954) on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:30PM (#734382) Journal

    I used to feel that way about Enlightenment...then I actually tried using it for more than a day and found that it's actually quite awesome.

    I don't even see how it can be "ugly" considering that it's so minimalist that it's barely there at all. What is there to even *be* ugly? The control panel interface? The same interface that lets you customize absolutely everything and do it far, far easier than any WM I've yet seen? What, it doesn't have enough transparency for you? Or do you miss having every option buried ten levels deep under some apparently unrelated group of settings? ;)

    Although I have mixed feelings about Enlightenment for a *minimalist* distro. Even though I just mentioned that it's so minimalist it's barely there. To me, Enlightenment was the WM that made virtual desktops finally make sense to me. Was never quite satisfied with other WMs, so I gave Enlightenment a shot when I got a big 17" beast of a laptop from System76. Now I use Enlightenment not in tiling mode but kinda pseduo-tiling -- first desktop is half Firefox, half terminal; next desktop is entirely Thunderbird, next one is graphics or image editing, then the next row I've got a terminal and text editor sharing the first block, another browser on the second, and the third one is usually open for miscellaneous tasks. And all the system tray type stuff (system utilization, battery life, status of external servers, clock, weather forecast, etc) is drawn directly on the desktop with Conky which is visible through my semi-transparent terminals. I don't have to ALT-TAB and search through programs; I don't have to go scanning a giant taskbar full of stuff, I just hit ALT plus an arrow key to move around the grid and can get to exactly the window I want in just a couple taps. But of course to use it that way you have to have enough system resources to keep all of that crap running at once. Particularly the RAM for multiple browsers loaded with tabs :) But the other nice thing about Enlightenment is that I can go from a fresh install to having my desktop configured exactly how I want it in only five or ten minutes. That control panel *is* a bit ugly, I'll admit that, but it's so damn functional...

    And above all of that, I'm just happy to see more official support for Enlightenment. For a while it was pretty buggy in Arch (it would give an error saying it crashed, although it always restored itself correctly and never lost anything IME), but over the past year or two it's gotten far, far better. We've got this and we've got the older Bodhi Linux now both using Enlightenment so hopefully they'll be contributing some fixes as well.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @12:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @12:55AM (#734602)

    Title bars, and borders. And little things floating everywhere. I just want windows. Give me the program, give me hotkeys, don't decorate or do icons or anything else. Those things are all ugly, annoying, and take up space needlessly. These are why I stick to tiling wm's.