Too cute for its own good, maybe? Maybe not. Elive’s goal, as you note, is to bring art to the GUI, making it as attractive as possible, and with the idea of bringing new life to older hardware. Damn fine review; thanks again for doing the heavy lifting.

I guess that eye candy itself is not enough for a real work OS. As the review points out one of the most annoying thing is the lack of description on the dock. And never forget that the average use would like to put his stuff on the desktop as well, so it would be nice to create folders and put files on it.

Perfect review. Elive is really beautiful except for the minor irritants that the author has mentioned. I found that the OS works perfectly as well. It played all my VCDS and DVDs and functioned perfectly all the way. Infact no other distro worked so perfectly as elive

One thing I feel you left out which is a major selling point is the speed of elive. This is the kind of distro you can put in any old machine and get a functional but lovely looking OS out of.

I used elive happily on a production machine for nearly a year from version .3 to .5.1 when (like most all distros) the wifi broke at the 2.6.15 kernel. So I think I can be a good review reviewer … I echo the “damn fine review.”
You captured elive exactly…it is speedy, beautiful, developed by Thanatermesis who taught himself to program by working on elive and enlightenment…and
…the little frustrations of adding icons to the dock, and lack of names in Elpanel, etc.

elive is like most distros, better on some machines than others (audio is much better now, but 1.0 still won’t pick up my wifi. It is also better with some people than others, you almost have to ‘get’ it.

It IS distinctive, attractive, FAST and has a GREAT IRC community that at times can feel like family (for all the good and bad reasons, hee hee)

God Bless
Doug

I agree with your review. I have found that although enlightenment is hard to get used to, this distro does a wonderful job of just working. I test quite a few distros on various machines, and elive is the only one that hasn’t given me any problems. Once you get used to doing things in enlightenment, it can be a fun OS. Good review

elive just looks cheap and tacky,..something a StarTrek, Star Wars Matrix teenager fan would design

it so ugly, awful, cheap looking,..
hideous icons,..

and the wallpaper my god
Ha HA haaaa a lonesome tree set on a foggy horizon with a wannabee rainbow

what next a logo of Donald Duck as a splash screen
One o=wonders why Microsoft users stay with Bill Gates’s OS
at least it looks superb

[…] The first full version of Elive, 1.0, was released at the beginning of July this year to a fair amount of acclaim. It has been touted as one of the most visually appealing distributions, but how does it stake up against the out-of-the-box review style of Shift+Backspace? I have been quite busy with work over the last week and have kept Elive installed on my desktop computer, making it my primary operating system. That being said, I found myself often booting into a live CD version of Linux Mint 3.0 as I generally did not like Elive 1.0. Of course, I do want to give Elive a fair review… More…  […]

ELive is the only Dist. that make me feel happy to work with Linux, all other Distro. have bugs, that nerve every user. With Elive all the newbies can work easely and they come fast in love with, without thinking of how to configure there Media Players or DVDs-Players, Elive work fast, simply, and easy to install, beside the developer of it , had write a simple but a good documentation about how you can work effectively with Elive. Elive Mount and unmount USB and CD automatically which other Distro. have sometimes problems with. About donating to Elive, this is normal to support this good working. If you need a good Linux Distro, that give you a good Wifi, Multimedia Support and Video Cards support then you have to pay somthing simple for it. Thank you very much Elive for this good work, wish you all the progress and will wait your next Elive version .

FreeEagle

It easy to critic, hard to produce but I think everyone hear understands this.

The required payment thing has got to go. Seek funds via ads and special paid and mailed CD packages.

Although it is daunting for a newbie to fathom so many distributions, choice is a good thing. We do often forget that every system is different and the truth be told, it is amazing how one distro or another usually does work with ANY given system (that’s not unreasonably old).

In this vain, any distro that works on older computers is efficient AND keeps fine old boxes out of the trash. This accepting the fact that there is NO substitute for newer, better hardware. Yet, if you can get YOUR job done and in the same (or less) time, then all hail a lean distribution.

I am surprised to see any critic of a certain color or graphic accept to not the defaults. Do we not understand that highly opinionated decorations are easily changeable and most of all NOT the main issue.

Based on the good facts given in the above review, I give much praise to said individual developer for MAJORING on the MAJORS! A good looking, fast, fully working (codecs and such) system is just what new users are looking for. Something that is said to be working without trouble on many machines deserves the highest praise.

May it continue to improve in these major, and in all areas.

Been using Gem since it came out its the most complete distro ive used its very different to anything else out their and it all works for me from the box
you can add upto 20 quick start buttons to the bottom panal if you choose and their is another panel that can replace it or compliment it if you prefer. I wish reviewers would do proper reviews instead of quick biased reviews you need a couple of weeks to do a real review. its also got a bunch of good themes again not mentioned. and is very stable as well.

Had been playing around with this as a potential distro for a slightly old laptop.

You cannot deny that Elive does what is says it will very well. As mentioned, it’s fast, attractive and does a lot ‘out of the box’.

Like the reviewer however I didn’t find the way minmised application displayed as desktop icons to my taste, I’d prefer them in the dock. Also I quite like being able to use my desktop for the here and now stuff, much like a physical desktop.

This is obviously a personal preference and the developer is limited by what Enlightenment can do. This I can accept. The developers attitude to it, I cannot.

Thanatermesis claims he won’t ever allow icons on the desktop as he doesn’t like it. This example seems to sum up his attitude. Despite his obvious technical and artistic talent, his unwillingness to cater to others tastes or bend on his pay before you download distribution scheme won’t do the reputation of this otherwise promising release any good.

Yes, the default install needs work, and yes, in default form the overall aesthetic is a bit tacky. The menu system is a bit awkward to edit but you get used to it after time. But plugin the test repositories, update, spend a few hours configuring it to your liking, and it a fine, fine distro. As mentioned, everything just works. Has both kde and gnome support. No other distro comes close to looking so good and working so effectively on my old evo laptop. Definitely worth taking some getting used to.

AMERICAN BULLSH*T AND GIBBERISH AT ITS VERY BEST seen IN THE LINUX WORLD on the elive website

QUOTE:–Elive is free and is made with and for pleasure, but free does not mean “no cost” . I spend all my time developing Elive. It is my choice.”

usa DICTIONARY DEFINITION (”free”):-1. costing nothing: requiring no money to be paid (e.g. Win a free meal for two.)

Its rather like the schizo USA websites,..”free online scan”,..pay 25 Dollars up front
some free “open” software

“free” software sucks like its snakeoil salesmen

There is a mirror that is up, and working: bittorrent.

I thought you wrote a good review.

Elive is my distro of choice at the moment, namely because of its debian base, Enlightenment (love it) and relatively small space.

The only other distros I’ve tried that I enjoyed equally were Pardus, but there’s not enough packages yet, and Sabayon, but the damn thing is so freaking huge!

I had tried a lot of distros in the last year, each distro has had something that did not work, sometimes audio, video or simple a program that is a must which did not install, in my experience in the search for the perfect linux i always founded something wrong, pclinux is great, but the software that I need
did not install, Xandro did not detect my hyperthreating CPU, mepis the aplication that i need did not install, ubuntu everything works but takes some time to make it work, because there’s a lot of help, dream linux is wonderful but I had static noise with mplayer, and finally my favorite Elive, for the first time everything worked out of the box. In the final analysis Elive is UNIQUE, different, and I hope the developer do not depart from the original idea. If you want to impress somebody, install ELIVE!!!

Elive is the first distro to make everything work out-of-the-box on my Evo N610c laptop. Sound, wireless, applications, codecs. It’s all there. And fast too.

Yes, one has to get used to Elive. But you can’t expect a beautiful women to just give herself to you, can you?

The screenshots are of Enlightenment 17. The earlier versions of the distro include the optional Enlightenment 16, which I prefer.

Elive works fine but is not feature-rich. For a better all-round experience use PCLinuxOS 2007. Visit http://pclinuxos2007.blogspot.com

ELIVE is fucking awesome!!!!!
Everything that matters to me, being able to see flash, you tube, audio graphic apps etc etc worked great right out of the box without having to fuck around fixing them right after the hard drive install. Oh yeah and I am running the more experimental & unstable E17 over the stable E16 too!!

I have enjoyed trying out many many Linux Distros and even though I have always been a big fan of the Enlightenment Window manager, even on other distros including puppy linux
another fav of mine… ELIVE GEM 1.0 is far and away my absolute fav distro of all time and I am addicted to it like crack. I could never see myself ever leaving this distro for another… EVER !!!
ELIVE rocks 4 ever !!

– Blake

Hm… I have been using Elive since July and I must say it is very hard to find another distribution so responsive and so easy to use. How retarded must a beginner be to have problems with using the Elpanel etc.?

If you look carefully and your pockets are empty, he does give you the option to e-mail him and get a $0 download of elive. Now i love this way of distributing Software, and if you want to test/try it first use the Dev version.

Hi everybody!
For some reason Linuxdistributions are rarely tested on users with a minimum of computing experience.
One of elive’s goals is to be easy to use even for the average user and non-linux-freak.
So the developers created a bonus CD system that offers software easy to install even for the noobest newbie. To me that is a very important aspect to set a counterpoint against the pseudo-user-friendly microsoft superiority.

Still a noobie to linux but I have tested a number of the popular distros. elive I found to be easy enough to set up but confusing to use.

Out of the box, it has pretty much everything I need and it looks nice, runs suprisingly fast off the cd… BUT…

My one MAJOR niggle - and I realise as the author mentioned that its still in its infancy - is the lack of labels, descriptions etc.

In fact its the first full blown distro I’ve tested/used recently that had me completely baffled as to where to start!

The mac-like menu buttons are great but I feel that more needs to be done text wise to guide a new user.

All in all a promising distro and a good sign of things to come but I’ll probably wait until v2 before trying it out again.

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