After 2 years of of development, Elive 2.0 landed under the codename "Topaz". The new release comes with many improvments. Elive "Topaz" is based on debian and use Enlightenment 17 as a default desktop .The authors of Elive claim that it offers great visual appear even with minimal hardware resources.

A review showing that out-of-the-box capabilities of the recently released Elive 1.0. Elive has been touted as one of the prettiest distributions available, but how does it stack up?

Elive: Where Debian mights Enlightenment. This is Elive's slogan. As I am sure you can guess, it is a Debian based distribution that uses the Enlightenment window manager.

It has been a while since I came up with the original concept which proved to be hard to get across. But now there’s a Python-GTK demo, a GTK feature request and a narrated video

"The Elive Team is proud to announce the new development version 1.5 with big and important changes..."

DIFFERENT is good. Different is refreshing, interesting, challenging. Elive 2.0 is different, but that does not necessarily mean that you are going to be happy with it.

Elive is a debian based linux live cd that runs the beautiful Enlightenment window manager. Today we're going to take you on a visual tour of the cd and discuss how it's progressing.

Elive is based on Debian and uses the Enlightenment window manager rather than KDE or Gnome. The version I picked for this review is the 1.9.35 release which is currently labeled as unstable.

We're talking about a distribution and its desktop environment that didn't cross ways with Compiz. Until now.