Screenshot of an Elive Gem 1.0 customized |
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| Company / developer | Elive Team |
| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Shared source |
| Latest stable release | 2.0 (Topaz) / March 4, 2010 |
| Latest unstable release | 1.9.60 / February 2, 2010 |
| Supported platforms | i686 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic Linux kernel |
| Default user interface | Enlightenment |
| License | Various/Donationware |
| Official website | http://www.elivecd.org/ |
Elive ("Enlightenment live") is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian for legacy and commodity hardware with Intel processors. Elive uses the Enlightenment X window manager instead of GNOME or KDE. Elive is a fully functional distribution with a Live CD counterpart that allows the user to sample the distribution before installing it on the system.
Elive can be used like any Live CD or installed to the hard drive to access its full features. Elive utilizes UnionFS, which allows users to install software packages using Synaptic Package Manager and/or APT, while the user's computer is running from the Live CD.
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Administration of Elive is centralized by its flagship application Elpanel, which was developed especially for Elive. Elpanel is an animated Administration applet that is written in Edje.
Elpanel is a virtual launchpad to various other administration tools which are nested within Elpanel via labeled custom icons.
Elive utilizes the Iceweasel browser and the Icedove mail client with pre-configured GnuPG extensions to encrypt and digitally sign emails. These tools allow the user to digitally sign, encrypt and decrypt correspondence with minimal effort.
Elive has support for multimedia codecs of various audio and video formats.
A Live USB of Elive can be created manually or with UNetbootin.[1]
Elive developers asked for a payment (via PayPal) of $15 or more to download the live CD. Alternatively, users could apply for free one-use "invitation codes" by writing long essays promoting Elive and posting about it on various commercial websites. The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 License does not seem to prohibit exact re-distribution. Currently (2010), Elive is now freely available to download, but not free to install. Any user can download and run the Elive system as a liveCD for free, but in order to install the OS one needs to donate or go through the processes mentioned earlier.[2]
Ozos, OpenGEU, Moon OS, and the recently released Bodhi Linux all use the E17 desktop environment like Elive, but unlike Elive are free to download and install. They use a very simple installation process very similar to Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
The second to last release (0.6) let the user choose between Enlightenment 0.16 (stable) or 0.17 (development release). Thus, it is a good way for the user to have a look at the latest version of this uncommon graphical environment.
Preceding the 0.5 release, Elive was built on the Morphix distribution, but the new one uses the Dsslive framework.
The "minimum hardware requirements" for running Elive are:
The "recommended hardware requirements" are:
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