Elive
Elive 2.0 with Enlightenment_(software)
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| Developer | Samuel F. Baggen (Thanatermesis) |
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| Written in | C |
| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | 24 January 2005 |
| Latest release | 2.0 / 10 March 2010 |
| Latest preview | 2.9.0 / 11 April 2017 |
| Marketing target | Personal computers, servers, tablet computers |
| Available in | 69 languages |
| Update method | APT (several front-ends available) |
| Package manager | dpkg |
| Platforms | I386, IA-32, x86-64,AMD64 (soon) |
| Kernel type | Monolithic: Linux |
| Userland | GNU |
| Default user interface | Enlightenment |
| License |
Free software licenses (mainly GPL) |
| Official website | www |
Elive is a non-commercial Linux distribution based on Debian and uses Enlightenment as user interface.
Elive was born in Belgium prior to 2005 as a private experiment by its founder to customize a Knoppix Live CD running the Enlightenment and with the designs based in the Evil Entity distro, it was called Tezcatlipotix, since the result was better than expected the desire to create a public version started.
Two months later the first public version with the name of Elive appeared publicly, appearing directly in Slashdot.
Since then Elive continued the development with more versions and one year later it decided to start requesting donations for install it in order to support the development.
Elive has access to online repositories of Debian (Wheezy) and uses its own repositories with more than 2500 packages that includes own specific software for Elive, extra software, or packages that replaces the default ones provided by Debian, improving the overall system and integrity. Elive comes with a complete set of included software to fit any needs for example free programs as: LibreOffice, Chromium, Iceweasle, Icedove, VLC media player, GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Skype, Virtual box, Avidemux,...
Elive has 3D effects without need of an accelerated graphic card.
Elive offers images specifically built for Enlightenment.
Elive is a very light and fast system which makes it a very good option for old computers. The minimum system requirements
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