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Elive Changelog

What's new in Elive 3.8.40 Beta

Mar 6, 2024
  • Big Upgrade using the Bookworm base with backports, this version has already been beta tested and improved for 3 months.
  • MacBooks: Much improved support, featuring a very elegant boot selector.
  • RAM: Improved performance and resources usage especially in Live mode.
  • Crontab integration on desktop, which allows your system to enjoy features like automatic updates or hardware watchdogs without needing to re-login on your desktop.
  • BTRFS The filesystem has become more mature and usable, so now it is included as an option in the installer, featuring transparent compression. The installer is ready to pick it when needed.
  • Flameshot: Is now the default screenshot tool, featuring selection area, drawing, adding text, upload and share, copy-paste, etc.
  • Video player has a much better looking GUI now
  • Audio: Pulseaudio automatically reconfigures itself on desktop startup if no audio cards are found.

New in Elive 3.8.34 Beta (Jul 13, 2023)

  • Nvidia drivers: Lots of improvements have been included, such as support for Optimus cards (Intel + Nvidia GPU laptops), OpenCL, video rendering, switching drivers in Live mode, and a better installation process.
  • Graphical drivers: Much improved for compatibility and support for any performant application like Blender or DaVinci Resolve.
  • Ctrl+Alt+Del: A special feature created by Elive has been added that runs some helpers to make the life of the user easier.
  • Installer: Many improvements and fixes have been added, especially for the migration mode.
  • Persistence: Now allows you to boot from external SSD thumb drives.
  • Language selector: Improved and with extra user-specific configurations.
  • RAM diagnostic tool: Now works on EFI boot systems.

New in Elive 3.8.30 Beta (Jul 8, 2022)

  • This new version includes:
  • Bullseye base: a lot of work was done in the past months for the full integration and this is the first public release using it, which has already been pretty well beta tested behind the curtains, and a lot of improvements were made
  • Wallpapers are now specific per each released version
  • Performance boost in ext4 filesystem on new installations or upgrades
  • Power-management will not shut down your computer if fstrim is running
  • Bios update suggested when a possible issue with the bios has been detected
  • Ruby is better integrated into your terminal now
  • Volume gadget now runs the mixer when you double click on it
  • Cinelerra-gg is now included on the 32bit versions too! so yes you can now do video-editing in those retro machines :)
  • Translations and original English messages have been very well improved thanks to the fantastic work of Triantares and TheTechRobo, this is something we wanted and waited for a long time! we cannot be happier :)

New in Elive 3.8.27 Beta (Apr 7, 2022)

  • This new version includes:
  • Installer with improved compatibility to boot togheter with windows systems.
  • Web Browser’s temporal files run now on RAM, improving heavily the lifespan of your SSD disk or your USB’s in persistence mode.
  • Vim color scheme is now much more vibrant.
  • Nvidia cards correctly detected for installing extra drivers.
  • Macbooks improved fan support.
  • Wallpapers switching demo is back and on the E16 desktop too!
  • Tmux improved with a better default configuration.
  • Debian base updated to 10.12
  • Terminology terminal updated and with new features.
  • Updated Debian base, Terminology with new features, and included Kernels with improved stability

New in Elive 3.8.26 Beta (Mar 13, 2022)

  • This new version includes:
  • web browsers improved the lifespan of your hard disk, SSD, or your USB’s in persistence mode, featuring now a special conf to run on RAM dynamically that also makes them faster.
  • vim colors much more vibrant.
  • macbooks improved their fan support.
  • nvidia devices detection for install drivers fixed.
  • wallpapers switching demo is back and on the E16 desktop too!
  • tmux improved with a better default configuration.
  • terminology terminal updated and with new features.
  • kernel updated revision for improved stability.

New in Elive 3.8.24 Beta (Nov 16, 2021)

  • New features since the previous Stable
  • 2 Kernel options, for last drivers and stability
  • Debian-Buster based, all new software & drivers
  • Improved performances, RAM, and video playback
  • Multi-featured special Dock
  • Extremely stable environment to work
  • A very different desktop experience
  • Installer much improved with bugfixes and features
  • Nvidia propietary drivers tested
  • Flawless migration from 3.0 Stable (32bit to 64bit too)
  • Tons of improvements in every Elive element
  • Strongly tested versions thanks to Forum participants
  • Improved compatibility with other OSes
  • Not so friendly / ready for novice users
  • Less featured than the Stable version
  • Less polished and beautiful than the Stable version

New in Elive 3.8.1 Beta (Dec 8, 2019)

  • Updated system to the last Debian Buster base
  • Reduced RAM resources usage
  • Build improvements: these new ISOs includes persistence + UEFI + SecureBoot all in a single build, we no longer require the special USB build to have only the persistence feature
  • Language and keyboard improvements and an own tool included
  • Thunar features: Admin mode fixed, the feature to set an image as wallpaper now works wih E16 too
  • Browsers updated, firefox is available now with the quantum features, netsurf is included back as an extremly light alternative, palemoon is also available optionally on the repositories
  • Kernel updates in the installed system are more reliable now
  • Free Software Only: The installer has been improved to allow the user to select to have only free software on his instalation
  • Other fixes: xpad and elicit applications has been fixed and working back, bluetooth bug when AC is fixed, timezone detection improved, the installer includes some new fixes and improvements too
  • Other changes: the 32bit build uses now the default kernel provided by the Debian release instead of an updated one, since 32bit machines doesn’t require the last updated one. This improves the overall compatibility and resources usage in the OS

New in Elive 3.0.4 (Apr 30, 2019)

  • Persistence: Overall improvements for saving the desktop configurations based on different hardware profiles, and improvements for the option to encrypt your persistence
  • Elive Health tool: Improvements for the critical temperature detection feature
  • USB recorder tool: Supports now compressed downloaded images, so with it you can record securely USB’s with any downloaded OS
  • Sound: Support for pulseaudio in the Elive internal mixer tool, in case the user installs it by itself
  • Installer: Multiple parts have been rewritten with a better code, that improves its reliability and overall stability.
  • Elive tools: Fixes and improvements have been made based on the tests and compatibility with a different base system.
  • Desktop: Disabled by default the tool that suggests a monthly donation since its annoying for the overall Elive experience.
  • Translations: Updated builds with updated translations made by the collaboration of the users!

New in Elive 3.0.3 (Jan 8, 2019)

  • Wallpaper: Dynamically changes depending of the hour of the day, looking more magic and nicer for your eyes, and it also includes a hidden surprise for Christmas!
  • Popups: You won’t be annoyed anymore by the Hotkeys Document that appears in the desktop startup, since it is a very useful thing we moved it to the launcher bar of applications
  • Desktop: Disabled the screen off timeout and the asking for the presentation mode
  • Flash: Updated the adobe flash player for the common browsers to the last version, tested on chrome, firefox.

New in Elive 3.0.0 (Sep 10, 2018)

  • After 8 years of silent development, the third stable version of Elive is out, the result is simply amazing and the integration is gorgeous, it is not even possible to describe every inside feature and the new website only contains a small portion of its characteristics.
  • Unfortunately not everything is rainbows and perfection, the lack of resources made the release being too much delayed, and this lead to old packages and drivers, but despite that, the final result is really worth it, Elive 3.0 is the most useful system ever made, perfect for the daily use, rock solid, beautiful and full of hidden features, with every simplified aspect to make it usable for any user level.
  • If all this was not enough this version is the most powerful version, maintaining its lightness in resources and blazing fast responsiveness, do not hesitate to put this polished and ready to use operating system in every computer for any purpose.
  • And even better again, the final stable version is entirely cost-free, limitless with all its features, to make it easier to more people in the world can use it, especially the ones with the lower resources.

New in Elive 2.9.22 Beta (Jan 5, 2018)

  • Keyboard typing to support special languages like Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese. If you need an extra Ibus configuration contact us with the details needed
  • Network access to your local machines using hostname.local
  • Numpad always enabled option in installation
  • Desktop right click is assigned to an amazing launcher
  • Designs shadow fix, borders more white, less pixelated icons in menus, much improved menus and userfriendly, misc overall improvements
  • Userfriendly better organized menus, more friendly icons and names, improved description for the dock launchers

New in Elive 2.9.16 Beta (Nov 21, 2017)

  • Performance is now almost twice as responsive and smoother, videos also plays faster
  • Designs improved buttons, window borders, and faster effects
  • Desktop automatic scaling, font selection and sizing based on your screen, organization of elements are more accessible too
  • Installer has a lot of improvements, fixes, fine-tuning and options to choice for the installed system, included privative drivers like Nvidia / Ati

New in Elive 2.9.14 Beta (Nov 12, 2017)

  • Nvidia / ATI works on the installed system thanks to the reports of the users
  • Fonts automated selection and sizing based in your type of screen, resolution and dpi, also includes desktop scaling factor
  • Performance multiple improvements in: encrypted installations, compiling flags, release mode, optimized effects, ARGB calculations disabled for borders, much faster and responsive desktop, reduced temporal writes in the Live mode, switched to dash in some daemons to reduce low memory usage.
  • USB tool to record live medias in the most easiest and secure way, here’s a little video
  • Processes watcher improved detecting and dealing with stuck processes or that may consume your cpu or memory
  • Terminology don’t crash anymore when opening new tabs
  • Designs has tons of improvements

New in Elive 2.9.12 Beta (Oct 28, 2017)

  • Performance: Desktop and effects has been increased to at least the 194 % more fast and smoother than before, video playback is also much smoother and fast.
  • Installer: The Elive installer has been refactored and includes lots of fixes and improvements, also a validator of username, password and hostname characters allowed, browser fix, entirely cost-free install and easier installation process
  • Audio cards detection and configuration improved
  • Wifi connections automatically pop up if there’s available connections and you are not connected to internet
  • Dock is improved with active opened windows access and controls
  • Iconified windows now includes their name in the icon
  • Wallpapers automated switching is improved to a single loop now
  • Translations has been improved, proofreaded and with clearer messages
  • BTS The new Bug Tracking System website is ready! all the reports has been fixed and the new version is more featured and also allows logins using your gmail or github accounts

New in Elive 2.0 / 2.9.8 Beta (Sep 4, 2017)

  • System: thanks to lots of improvements in the installer you can free up to 3 GB of the installed system and make the memory usage lighter up to 100 MB only, with the full desktop running
  • User Manager: includes now autologin features and sudo configuration
  • Fonts: added a perfect selection of fonts for different purposes, also other ones for programming and small sizes, improved selection of international languages compatibility and removed unneeded ones
  • Desktop: improved gadgets distribution and compatibility, the disks gadget only shows the removable devices by default now
  • Installer: lots of bugfixes and improvements, extra options to remove unnecessary things, it supports now SSD over PCIe (nvme) hard disks, blank boot fix, automated partitioning and encryption options improvements, integrated tool to automatically report bugs, better reliability, upgrade mode from older Elive installations improvements and fixes, installing without internet available.
  • Persistence: lots of bugfixes and improvements, includes usage statistics
  • TMUX: includes a much more friendly way to switch between windows and creating new ones
  • Developers: GDB is greatly improved with default options, colors and features
  • Vim: includes a new colorscheme with the gorgeous and yummy colors by Molokai, the theme is a hacked version of it which includes some improvements.

New in Elive 2.9.5 Beta (Jul 20, 2017)

  • Designs: Great improvements in the designs for the stable release! Overall cleanup, lots of transparent elements, logo animated at start, shadows 3d effect, clock design.
  • Unique Features: The borders has now 4 buttons instead of 3, and there’s a hidden one that appears if a window cannot be closed
  • Effects: The visual effects stability is improved specially in the Live mode and there’s a fix for the locked desktop when using it
  • Eltrans: Our translator tool has the counter for translated sentences fixed and there’s a fix in the grammar checker. Please be a translator before the stable release!
  • Extra: you can use ctrl+s in vim to save files now, tagbar feature also recognizes EDC source files which makes them very handy to browse elements!

New in Elive 2.9.0 Beta (Apr 21, 2017)

  • Persistence is now featured in Elive where you can save your personal files, configurations, passwords, extra software installed, etc. It includes unique features like guided setup, the option to encrypt your persistence partition, statistic of usage, automated cleanup of temporal files when the persistence partition is full, desktop settings saved in unique profiles per machine to improve the compatibility among different computers.
  • Netsurf as an ultra-light graphical web browser, a very good alternative for low resources.
  • Improvements: Automatic disabling of touchpad taps for one second while you are writing text
  • Bugs fixed: Thunar unmounting devices without show an error of device busy. Eltrans has the counter of translated sentences fixed. Installer bugfix in automated partitioning

New in Elive 2.8.8 Beta (Mar 31, 2017)

  • Screenshots can be uploaded and shared again, now in our specific Elive servers
  • Designs: The amazing old dark theme Lucax is back and included by default, with the fonts for the menus fixed.
  • Nvidia graphic cards installation improved and some fixes for the ATI (fglrx) ones
  • Windows applications compatibility greatly improved by switching to a recent version of Wine
  • Geolocated automatic time configurations improved
  • Newer versions of: Libreoffice, darktable, cpu microcodes, git, printer configurations, wine
  • Improvements: Default audio volumes increased. Default messages and translations. Elive translator tool. Xterm default configuration and colors improved.
  • Elive Menu: A new menu of applications has been added for all the Elive specific things, and a submenu on it for Extra features where you can found helpers, installers, or anything extra that can improve even more your Elive system without the need to include it by default in the system. Right now you can found on it a guided installer for the SilverLight browser plugin
  • Installer: Fixed a bug in the automated partitioning, the /boot partitions are now more reliable in booting your system
  • Fixes: If your desktop is started with a wrong configuration of icons, which was a very rare case, now it is detected and fixed on the fly. Color in the shell for the console mode fixed.

New in Elive 2.8.6 Beta (Mar 11, 2017)

  • Incredible improvements in live performance making it twice fast!
  • Designs: Updated designs with a redesign of the menu, a pager less obtrusive and more handy, redesigned the animated stars wallpaper, bigger shadows with a three-dimensional effect when they are focused, the dock has now better readability with smoother effects to have a more friendly usage.
  • Compiz: Improved stability and configurations to have good eye-candy in combination with speed and useful features, a very old and important bug was finally fixed making it a stable environment for daily work
  • Audio cards configuration fixed
  • Integrated gadget in the desktop to have a more handy access and use of your inserted media’s like an USB or CDROM
  • Improved boot menu with more user-friendly and understandable options

New in Elive 2.8.0 Beta (Feb 10, 2017)

  • Designs preview feature included
  • Gimp much improved with a more intuitive and useful interface, expanded navigation and direct access to handy tools
  • Fixes in the desktop stability and performance bottleneck that was caused by a small cache
  • Ebook creator tool from web articles greatly improved(cli)
  • Thumbnails for Epub and Mobi files
  • Welcome panel with multiple fixes
  • Timezone and Time compatibility with shared Windows systems and improvements in the detection and re-using of configurations

New in Elive 2.7.8 Beta (Oct 15, 2016)

  • Fixed an important segfault that made the graphical system to restart randomly in the previous version
  • Font sizes improved and fixed a bug that made the fonts to display very big in some computers
  • Blender Works again including the last version of blender available with the correct Glibc version
  • Links2 web browser included for old computers and set the configuration to not be the default one when opening urls
  • Extra Packages included to improve the final system, like improved GL drivers and rendering, printer configuration, i386 optimizations, better fonts for asian languages, screen blanking recovery from suspension
  • Stronger structure to login in the graphical system on the live mode
  • Desktop icons improved and fixed a very old bug that displayed them broken in previous versions
  • Included torrent to download all the history of stable versions of Elive and other special ones

New in Elive 2.7.6 Beta (Sep 7, 2016)

  • elive welcome panel included for the live mode
  • amazing speedup when launching some applications (read notes)
  • new applications included by default: hardare information viewer, links2 (much more lightweight web browser)
  • fixed bugs: terminal hangs, eltrans (translator accounts requesting), an old bug in e17 which started with wrong icons set, live boot misc auto-detections and configurations like qemu
  • installer improvements: shell for installed mode is now zsh and not bash, detection of windows and other operating systems listed when installed, internet connection asking experience improved

New in Elive 2.7.2 Beta (Aug 15, 2016)

  • Spotify works directly on the fly on your Elive system!
  • Designs: much much improved designs for the icons and theme, see details at continuation
  • fixes: thunar opens terminology as default terminal, admin mode works back too
  • Gimp includes a much better and improved default configuration like single window mode or an increased number of undeletes

New in Elive 2.7.1 Beta (Jul 25, 2016)

  • Audacity (audio wave editor) included by default
  • Timezone detection improved
  • Detector of systems improved and updated to detect last windows installed systems
  • Linux Kernel updated with a lot of new patches for new hardware, bugfixes and improvements
  • Google Voice search on internet using your microphone

New in Elive 2.6.18 Beta (Mar 17, 2016)

  • Blender is updated to the last version (+ 2.76.211)
  • Big improements with the time compatibility in computers that shares a windows operating system, please report your experience
  • Installer: compatbility and improvements in speed and overall experience, minor bugfixes with fallback oprtions

New in Elive 2.6.14 Beta (Feb 15, 2016)

  • Feature in the installer to repare hard disks that contains bad blocks during the installation process
  • Improved tool for Windows to write the USB images into your USB medias
  • Improved the failsafe flags in the boot step

New in Elive 2.6.12 Beta (Nov 28, 2015)

  • This version includes bugfixes in the installer handling special cases and some improvements in the overall speed process. The desktop has now the clock by default included and there’s some improved configurations by default too. We still working on the packaging for the other architectures like 64bit and different distros to keep the updates and fixes more reliable in the future.

New in Elive 2.6.10 Beta (Sep 4, 2015)

  • Lots of improvements and bugfixes in Enlightenment 17, more exactly 87 commits are backported
  • Shadows for the windows are much more improved giving a deeper and three dimensional feeling for the focused window as you can see here
  • Important bug fixed for computers that has a broken battery that will not shutdown anymore after to reach the desktop, on which the power management widget detected the remaining percentage to be zero and triggered then the shutdown

New in Elive 2.6.8 Beta (Jul 30, 2015)

  • Huge fonts with nvidia cards fixed
  • Much improved touchpad default configurations
  • Internet configurator widget is now static in the desktop so the users won’t miss it
  • Zsh shell by default, with a ton of amazing features included, we configured it to keep a maximum compatibility with the bash shell so that the users won’t see any difference, if you don’t know zsh think about it like a much more powerful bash shell, it includes a small demo help to have an idea of its powerful features
  • A lot of fixes in the internal elive tools
  • Improved autodetected configurations
  • Lots of small fixes and improvements in the installer
  • Skype audio works again by using alsa if you run it from the menus

New in Elive 2.6.6 Beta (Jun 5, 2015)

  • Clock Improvements: The detection of your timezone and the correct time changing between Windows and Linux are greatly improved
  • USB 3: Support for USB-3 type of memory’s included
  • Hibernation: Fixes and improvements made, you can hibernate now without problems
  • Installer fixes and improvements:
  • Automated partitioning uses the same Luks + LVM2 setup like the Debian installations, you can also re-use these existing partitions to install Elive
  • Much other fixes: Login in TTY’s, SSH working by default and recyclating configurations from a previosly installed system, disabled grub menu when only Elive is installed, increased grub timeout when the computer has more than one installed system, autologin in the graphical system when the user selects encryption or asked when it is not, much improved the user experience of the installer, partitioning process improved, sentences improved, improvements for SSD optimizations, much faster install process, etc

New in Elive 2.6.2 Beta (Apr 7, 2015)

  • Nvidia / FGRLX privative drivers are ready to be used!
  • The Installer includes a lot of improvements, specially to make the install process more easy and fast, there’s a good amount of optimizations included everywhere and a cleaner installed system.
  • Improved audio detection and a wider range of cards directly working
  • Improved readability of colors in the terminals
  • You can view your system’s logs in the TTY12
  • ccache is included and enabled by default so if you compile things they will be blazing fast!
  • Vim default configurations updated and improved

New in Elive 2.5.4 Beta (Feb 7, 2015)

  • Automatically detect and notify users about possible hard disk failures (S.M.A.R.T)
  • Wine is updated to last version 1.7
  • File Manager feature: You can now open .ISO images or similar format files and browse their contents. Images ares automatically mounted in a temporary directory) for easier access.
  • You can now use PPA style repositories in Elive (the packager needs to have packages available for your Debian-equivalent version)
  • Installer Changes: The listing of strange and encrypted partitions is improved. Improved performance of the filesystem when using the automated partitioning mode.
  • Chromium browser is much improved in default configurations, removing all the annoying first-configuration, includes a pre-installed plugin “adblock” to remove ads by default, if you click on email link it opens the gmail redactor, last used tabs are by default restored on startup, and it will never pop you again about translating websites from english by default (but you can enable them in the configurations)

New in Elive 2.5.2 Beta (Jan 14, 2015)

  • GIT and SVN integrations into your file-manager!
  • You can now use your iphone to connect to internet using the USB cable
  • Improvements in mobile networks as wimax, also there’s included a wider range of providers for 3G/hdspa
  • Command-not-found feature included now in your shell
  • Default applications assigned to filetypes are much improved now
  • Debian packages updated to 7.8
  • New applications selected: sound-juicer, iptraf, nmap, traceroute

New in Elive 2.5.0 Beta (Dec 19, 2014)

  • Optimizations in Kernel: CK2 (Con Kolivas patches) with the BFS (Brain F@#k Scheduler) and BFQ (Budget Fair Queueing) set by default that improves your desktop interactivity and your hard disk I/O
  • Updated version 3.16.7 of the kernel to include the new CKT patches that includes a lot of bug-fixes
  • Much more friendly way to know who and where you are in your terminal as you can see on this example screenshot
  • Much better integration of Dropbox in your File-Manager
  • An amazing tool called git-watcher is now in Elive
  • fixed a message in the boot process about a Glib-Warning

New in Elive 2.4.6 Beta (Dec 4, 2014)

  • Added the possibility to boot from your Hard Disks
  • reiser4progs is updated to the version 1.0.9 with TRIM support for SSD cards
  • New tools made by Elive: email-sender, an extremely friendly way to send emails from your commandline, subtitles-convert-to-linux, a tool that let’s you convert subtitles to the correct format to use in linux
  • Other good amount of applications added: iso-to-utf8, utf8-to-iso, dos2unix, RAW support for Gimp and a good amount of other plugins, gftp, gpg signatures for icedove and syncronization with gmail contacts, seahorse with multiple signature features, sshfs, ethtool

New in Elive 2.4.5 Beta (Nov 21, 2014)

  • The installer includes a good amount of fixes like:
  • Improved verification of internet connection
  • Improved geolocation detection to set default language and keyboard settings
  • Improved wordings and messages, giving more details about the donation required to install and also from the website
  • Default timezone configurations fixed to show the correct date
  • The default Volumes are better configured now

New in Elive 2.4.0 Beta (Nov 1, 2014)

  • New kernel 3.16
  • Reiser4 (stable version) officially included from the installer
  • Terminology 0.7.0
  • Included tutorial by Yann Esposito about learning to use VIM superpowers

New in Elive 2.3.9 Beta (Oct 18, 2014)

  • VIM suite pre-configured with the best plugins and features available, keeping it fast and full featured
  • Important fixes in the installer: screen turned blank during installation process fixed, grub bootloader fixes and improvements, fixes on upgrade-mode, configurations are run in a detachable tmux now
  • Fix for Thunar that blocked when create a new file
  • Bash security fix included

New in Elive 2.3.6 Beta (Sep 25, 2014)

  • Configured network connections are now persistent on reboot for USB Images.
  • Improved USB bootable Image by creating a separate partition, this fixes the issue with USB images not booting on some rare computers
  • Elive now boots with an amazing Splash theme
  • Improved the listing of kernels on the boot screen
  • Added memtest to the boot screen
  • SSH between Elive computers is now much faster

New in Elive 2.3.5 Beta (Aug 16, 2014)

  • EFL (enlightenment libraries) are updated to the beta version 1.11
  • Darktable and LibreCAD applications included by default
  • Nightingale is now available from the repositories
  • Right-clicking on a PDF in the File Manager will now give you the option to shrink it
  • Interactive git shortcuts for the Shell
  • Users Home directory is now in their default language
  • Improvements were made to Tmux when using it with SSH
  • Improved the microphone detection with Skype

New in Elive 2.3.4 Beta (Jul 25, 2014)

  • A "Send-to Dropbox" option has been added to the File Manager
  • Right-clicking on a Movie in the File Manager will now give you the option to get the subtitle
  • Applications menu has been redesigned to be more intuitive
  • Laptop wifi switch now works properly on re-activation
  • Keyboard hotkeys for volume and mute control is now configured automatically.

New in Elive 2.3.0 Beta (Jun 26, 2014)

  • Updated Linux kernel to 3.14 with Reiser4 patch, including a much wider range of wifi and audio card drivers for newer computers.
  • Backports for Virtualbox, nvidia and fglrx drivers
  • Enlightenment has a much more friendly menu of applications now
  • Debian security repository is included by default
  • New games included: “Super Mario War” and some “game and watch” simulators
  • Elive Installer includes fixes

New in Elive 2.2.6 Beta (Jun 7, 2014)

  • The Installer has been tested during the last 2 weeks where, thanks to all the volunteers, many bug fixes were made real-time using IRC at #elive. The installer is now ready for normal usage.
  • Upgrade mode of the installer is now implemented; good for upgrading previous versions of Elive.
  • Bugs fixed in the installer: permissions, audio, mounting media, login to graphical system, end-user configurations, end-user home folders on their language… and much more.

New in Elive 2.2.2 Beta (May 17, 2014)

  • New installer
  • Normal installation ready
  • Automatic partitioning using optimal settings
  • Automatic update of the installer with fixed bugs if there’s a newer version available
  • Checks for HD speeds, bios clock, partitions alignment, SSD optimizations
  • Much improved mounts and partitions management included in the elive tools framework
  • Guided help during the installation process
  • What is not ready: upgrade mode (from a previous install of Elive)
  • What is not tested: migration mode (from another linux system)

New in Elive 2.2.1 Beta (Mar 7, 2014)

  • Powerline patched fonts added and set by default
  • EXFAT filesystem supported by default, so you can use newer windows-formatted and mac-compatible USB’s without problems
  • M4A format is now supported in massive-audio-converter tool
  • Terminology is now the default and full-working terminal
  • Improved color palette and visibility of main elements in terminology

New in Elive 2.1.58 Beta (Jan 21, 2014)

  • Debian packages updated to their release 7.3 and already betatested
  • When a user access to a NTFS disk, they warned that can be unstable
  • Improved the massive image-resizer tool, which includes adding more resolutions and a smart automatic resize calculator
  • Improved the massive audio converter tool, it will now give you better accuracy in quality for a smaller file size.

New in Elive 2.1.57 Alpha (Dec 20, 2013)

  • Updated E17 to 0.17.5 with lots of fixes
  • Massive Randr backports
  • Screen Setup now works better for dual-screen users
  • The default editor Scite now has a lot of improved features and configuration.
  • Included default configurations for tmux with commented examples

New in Elive 2.1.54 Alpha (Jul 17, 2013)

  • Eltrans: This release includes a complete rewrite of the translator tool for Elive. With features like a grammar corrector and a proofreader mode, where the translator can modify the original sentences of the application itself, making it more userfriendly and intuitive.
  • Backported Randr code from Enlightenment 18 to E17 which makes it easier to configure dual-screen and external monitors, special thanks to PrinceAMD and devilhorns.

New in Elive 2.0 / 2.1.52 Alpha (Jun 26, 2013)

  • Automated cooling for newer intel CPU's by decreasing the cpu clock when the temperature gets high
  • Vim colorscheme changed to elive an own colorscheme that focuses on intuitiveness.
  • Internet Configurator now automatically pops up with a list of available connections.
  • E17 Fix: Language and Keyboard are not correctly saved.
  • E17 Fix: Application menu no longer freeze your environment.

New in Elive 2.0 / 2.1.42 Alpha (May 28, 2013)

  • Bug fixes in the automatic date and time configuration
  • If you move to another country it is automatically detected and your time is updated to the new location
  • Updated firmwares to support a wider range of wifi's and other devices
  • Automatic detection of lvm devices inside crypted filesystem
  • Fixed a bug with thumblerd process, which can sometimes block devices from unmounting

New in Elive 2.1.40 Alpha (May 6, 2013)

  • Updated to the stable release of Debian Wheezy
  • Engage now works much better with composite and non-composite modes
  • noop scheduler configured by default for SSD disks if they are detected
  • Updatd to the last terminology version 0.3
  • Online applications added like: khan academy, tedx, and codeschools which is a friendly way to introduce and learn programming languages
  • Improved autodetection for user language

New in Elive 2.1.37 Alpha (Apr 18, 2013)

  • Automatic language and timezone configurations based on your physical location
  • E17 updated to the new released version with lots of bugfixes
  • E17 improvings in the automated positioning of windows in the desktop
  • Suspend ready
  • Fixed an important bug in the e17 menus
  • Fixed a bug with Intel cards when the screen is blanking

New in Elive 2.1.33 Alpha (Mar 29, 2013)

  • Google Talk plugin included, you can now do calls with voice and video
  • Very much improved way to connect to the internet, with sorting by signal and a complete set of features for any need
  • Improved elive tools, with detection of your city and timezones without requiring a GPS
  • E17 fixes for keyboard, GL detection and Night mode

New in Elive 2.1.32 Alpha (Mar 8, 2013)

  • Completed redesign of the Focus system
  • Special mode for e17 called night reading, which inverts the colors of your screen making the reading much more comfortable
  • Created another mode called sleep, which turns your computer off in a specific time of the day or in a countdown value, configurable for each day and with different types of halting
  • Moved from xine to vlc for playing DVDs
  • Integrated compatibility of different file-managers with the default one
  • Zenity sizes of the box fixed

New in Elive 2.1.31 Alpha (Feb 22, 2013)

  • Experimental redesign of the focus system of Enlightenment, a better focus remember-list and the ability to remember focus across desktops
  • Switch from xine to vlc
  • Faster startup of e17 first configuration
  • Some misc appplications added for a more complete OS

New in Elive 2.1.27 Alpha (Jan 28, 2013)

  • Multiple improvements in e17 and startup configurations
  • Persistence feature where you can save your data in live mode! explained here
  • Better list of languages supported with their required fonts
  • Elive now supports more languages than before.
  • Audio cards features including better recognition, improved volumes, mic working by default for applications like skype
  • Now using syslinux to boot the ISO's, this greatly increases the number of computers Elive can boot on.
  • Included new Wine version 1.5.22 to support a wider range of Windows applications.

New in Elive 2.1.23 Alpha (Jan 13, 2013)

  • The final stable release of Enlightenment 17!
  • Improvements in E17 like "focus remember", or an emodule for productivity (style pomodoro with window controls)
  • Composite and transparencies even in older computers without 3D accelaration, and other good features even when not in use
  • Very efficient and fast overall system
  • Allows for better resolution in older computers where it was once not possible to play high quality videos due to resources required (includes HD videos in h264)
  • Perfect screen sincronization in video playback.
  • Kernel 3.2.0 supporting older computers, which means that new computers will be supported too
  • Recent and updated applications
  • Lots of packages like libreoffice ready for giving a complete suite to the end-users
  • Extremely useful new tools made by Elive, like: bkp, waitfor, elivepaste, showmyip, etc...
  • A enlightened terminal with a great demo

New in Elive 2.0 (Mar 5, 2010)

  • Autolaunchers: Entirely rewrited with better stability and more features
  • User Configurators: A lot of user configurators added for configure anything, like touchpad, FIXME
  • Drivers: Kernel 2.6.30.9 with support of special hardware and other features like tuxonice (hibernation), reiser4, and lots more
  • 3G Phones supported with 364 providers available for any country
  • Look: Some things of the look are now even better than before
  • Elpanel: Removed and moved everything to a more standard and unique place for the configurations
  • Bluetooth supported
  • Trayer included
  • Shared Folders also know as samba it is directly suported in Elive in a very easy way to use, thanks LinuxNIT for these nice applications and some others too!
  • USB bootable: Create your own bootable USB sticks !
  • OSS compatibility for games and strange applications that doesn't support alsa
  • Entrance Autologin supported
  • Broadcom 43xx works now with 2 different optional drivers
  • Ssh: Some handy features for ssh like special prompt coloring when you are in a ssh session so that not confuse your login, also, you can directly access to enlightenment_remote features or run things on the graphical system without need to set special variables
  • Audio Configurator: If you have more than one audio card, you can select the right one at any moment!, this feature is very useful for me when I'm working on the night and I need to switch to the card that is set to my headphones. You can also play with Elive multiple audio sources without problems.
  • Special Kernels: You can install on your installed Elive systems, special kernels that for example includes support for more than 4 GB of ram without the need of a 64 bit-OS, (in the nurse special mode)
  • Translations: Elive supports now more languages, by default they are automatically translated, but you are welcome to collaborate with these translations by using Eltrans.
  • User-Friendly: Never an operating system was that easy and userfriendly to use as Elive 2.0, the list is huge, and the goal is that even senior people can use Elive 2.0 without problems. Some examples are:
  • Convert: Convert files in MP3 by just selecting them in your filemanager, you can also do the same thing with the resolution of the images
  • Search tool
  • Screenshot tool
  • Disk Usage tool
  • Admin mode: If you don't know how to admin your system, you can be admin from your thunar and so manage any file or configuration of your system
  • Nurse: The nurse mode is a special Recovery / Repair mode full of features so that everybody can recover, fix, and repair his Elive system, for example:
  • Recover Configurations: You can recover any "Elive default" configurations, like your desktop settings
  • Hardware Tests to verify that your computer is working without problems
  • Packages: check if your system contains all the packages included by default with Elive, if not, you may miss any feature
  • Free Space on the disk
  • Kernel: Install newer kernels or also with special support like more than 4gb of ram
  • Installer: The installer includes a lot of features like:
  • Upgrade mode: Do not do a new install, just do an upgrade of your old Elive system, so that you still maintain your users, files, and everything... remember that everybody should do a periodically backup
  • Migrate: Migrate any Linux system to an Elive system, this include to save users, files, passwords, and some configurations
  • Filesystems: Special filesystems like Reiser4 are now supported directly by the installer, this filesystem also includes compression support that will boost your machine even 2 times faster
  • Reinstall: You don't need to burn CD's anymore since this version if you want to reinstall Elive again, you have a feature in your menus that does it without the need of CD's

New in Elive 1.9.60 (Feb 3, 2010)

  • Autolaunchers: An entirely different system rewritten for autolaunchers containing features which are more handy and less annoying, entirely configurable
  • Touchpad: Configurator added
  • Drivers: Added a new driver for cdrom-drives needed to boot into live mode (thanks to rafuch0)
  • Misc Bugs fixed, features added, and a few informative messages added
  • Kernel version: 2.6.30

New in Elive 1.9.52 (Dec 13, 2009)

  • E17 Modules: A new set of E17 modules for Elive, they are found in the Features category of the E17 Preferences
  • Trayer moved to the systray of e17
  • Bluetooth featured on the fly
  • Power Manager featured for laptops
  • Msn: Amsn changed by emesene for now due to resources and stabiility reasons
  • Kernel version: 2.6.30

New in Elive 1.9.51 (Oct 23, 2009)

  • Compressed Filesystem: If you have a computer with a tiny hard disk (like EeePC 2gb SSD), you can now install Elive using a compressed filesystem so that the entire system will fit in 1 GB. Anything that you will put on it will be directly compressed on the fly and in realtime.
  • Shared folders implementation with extra fixes and features
  • No CD required: There is no need to burn the ISO on a cdrom anymore; you can easily install or reinstall with this method: simply point it to the ISO image on the hard drive and reboot to the latest one (from installed system). You can found this option in your Administration menu of applications.
  • VPN: extra support
  • toram: feature fixed
  • OSS: Audio extra support (good for games or special things)
  • Catalan: option from the boot selector fixed
  • Kernel version: 2.6.30

New in Elive 1.9.41 (Aug 28, 2009)

  • aMSN: Fixed and updated for the compiz version, you can use it again now
  • Audio Configurator: You can configure which audio card (if you have more than one) you want to use as default
  • AudioCDs: The auto-play of audio cd's has been repaired
  • Kernel version: 2.6.26.8-elive-686 (revision 41)

New in Elive 1.9.31 (Jun 24, 2009)

  • USB Live: A tool to make your USB stick an Elive bootable live system !
  • Acer Aspire One: Perfectly supported, also with a special tool to disable the fan when not needed (very noisy in the bed)
  • Flash: Flash updated to the version 10.0.22.87
  • Console: Better characters for the console mode, more languages supported, smaller font size for console.
  • Music: Elive Essence is back ! from your Audio menu, also, your Music folder is full of the best music for you, the best for work, for play, or for relaxation.
  • Audio Player: Ok, we have finally moved from XMMS to Audacious !, it is almost the same but using gtk2 instead of gtk1, also, with a lot more new code and plenty of more features. All the dependencies of it moved as well (e17 hotkeys, applications calls, thunar default applications, mimetypes, autolaunchers, etc), on the other hand, we can say good-bye to the amazing JESS plugin for xmms.
  • Russian support is now fixed thanks to a report that someone made, if you have problems with other languages, what are you waiting for? Report it! :)
  • Installer:
  • Fixes: A lot of misc fixes, specially for those who wanted to use the upgrade mode with a dedicated /home partition, this feature is working again thanks to the report of KC.
  • Features: Apart from a lot of new internal features, there are some others, such as the one where you can now enjoy having your E17 backgrounds/themes/bar saved in your reinstallations As well as a better and more stable way to detect additional operating systems in order to put them in your grub menu. Please report any operating systems not added to your grum menu, especially windows.
  • Kernel version: 2.6.26.8-elive-686 (revision 40)

New in Elive 1.9.28 (Jun 2, 2009)

  • Partitions: Better detection and listing of the partitions for the live mode and the installer. If you encounter any problem since this version of Elive, please report it!.
  • Raid: Now the fake-hardware (featured by the motherboard Bios) RAID disks are supported (thanks to the help and tests of watchwolf). A small help about RAID (software mode) is added in the installer describing how to install Elive on raid devices.
  • Macbooks: We have switched from Lilo to Grub, in the previous versions of Elive you saw that sometimes the system doesn't boot anymore after running the fine-tune step because of some problems with lilo. This is now solved by using grub.
  • Installer: The development is now all concentrated on the installer, with a large number of minor bugfixes and features.

New in Elive 1.9.26 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Nvidia / Ati: When you upgrade the kernel package and modules, you will broke your nvidia/ati drivers except if you update/install/remove any requirement manually... this problem is solved since this version by holding ALL the kernel/driver packages (and GLX packages) in case that the user needs a nvidia/ati privative driver.
  • Accelerated boot: A bit more accelerated boot of the live system by sorting the files of the filesystem in the cdrom structure by their access order.
  • Practical things: Convert any audio file to MP3 / OGG by right-click on them in the file-manager

New in Elive 1.9.24 (Mar 27, 2009)

  • Debian: We have finished syncing the repositories using the new Debian Lenny Stable, enjoy it.
  • E17: Updated Enlightenment 17 with new features. You will notice that the 'switch desktops by moving the mouse to the edge screen' does not work on this version anymore, for that, enable the new module.
  • Reiser 4: The new optimized filesystem Reiser4 is available as a module of our kernel. Note: this module is only available as kernel module, not in the installer as choice, so use it at your own risk. For experimental usages.
  • Kernel Headers: The kernel headers have been pointed to a wrong build directory, thus the user did not have the possibility to build their own modules except if they pointed the symlink to the correct folder. This is now fixed for all future kernel headers.
  • Scite: Scite is again our default editor, it is also the preferred choice of our users.
  • Thunar: Previews of Flash videos.
  • Mplayer: Some changes that include a fix of an annoying popup message when using poor-driver audio cards, and some hotkeys added for the non-gui mode like: left-click = pause, double-right-click = fullscreen, and normalized audio set by default.
  • Autolaunchers: Removed old thunar autolaunchers system (you could re-enable it if you want) and we are back to our old system, this makes your Elive more light and featured, unfortunately this autolauncher system requires continuous maintenance.
  • Macbooks: Better touchpad sensitivity.
  • Installer: Fixed a bug verifying the integrity in computers that has a wrong clock-time set.
  • LVM: Detection, mount, accessible in Live mode, available in the installer (requires manual creation of LVM).
  • RAID: Detection, mount, accessible in Live mode, available in the installer (requires manual creation of RAID).
  • Keymaps: A bit of work in the keymaps of the keyboards such as for slovenian, swiss and canadian. If you see any problem with the keyboard / languages please report it to http://bugs.elivecd.org
  • Languages: If you are using an external booting system such as unetbootin, you can select the language from the boot now.

New in Elive 1.9.18 (Nov 27, 2008)

  • This version includes a greatly improved new kernel and a lot of upgraded packages. Changes: Network Configurator is now perfectly usable and stable; Firefox bookmarks have been updated with new entries - a good list of GIMP links and tutorials, a big list of articles about Elive since its first version, and also some about EFL development; Linux kernel updated to version 2.6.26.8; all the currently available wireless drivers have been added, including the newest ath9k for Atheros cards; the bug about the WEP encryption in MacBooks has been finally solved using the new ath9k driver included on this kernel.

New in Elive 1.9.15 (Nov 12, 2008)

  • This version includes better support for MacBooks and a much better network configuration tool. MacBooks - the MacBook support has been overhauled, fixing some bugs like the installation and the webcam support. Wireless and networking - our new application to configure networks called Net-Connector is in a pretty good shape. All the known bugs are fixed and the auto-connect mode seems to be working properly. Since there are no known remaining bugs on it, we invite you to find new ones.

New in Elive 1.9.10 (Oct 17, 2008)

  • The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.10. This version doesn't include Exalt (a network configuration tool) any more, but there is a new application in Elpanel. Ibar is replaced by Itask-ng - Elive now has a zooming bar similar to the one in Mac OS X. It also has another feature enabled by default - 'lock icons', which prevents the user from removing icons accidentally. Vim color scheme hacks - the default color theme of Elive has been hacked for better development and coding. PDF printer - it is now possible to create PDFs from a page, document, or anything just by selecting to print to a PDF file in the printer menu. Networks - this version includes a new application called net-connector for configuring WiFi and wired connections.

New in Elive 1.8.8 (Sep 12, 2008)

  • This version solves two important problems found in the previous version: an annoying mouse bug and a network configuration bug. Changes: 'changedevice' boot option allows changing device during the boot process; hotkeys - the mute key now works; E17 updated to the last version from Subversion, now some modules like battery, temperature and CPU frequency are enabled only if hardware supports it; Thunar can now preview XCF (GIMP native format) images and Nintendo DS ROMs; auto-mounters - mount and umount devices from Thunar; kernel updated to version 2.6.25.16...