Eight years passed until the developers of the Linux Elive distribution they were able to release a new version. elive it is a very stable free operating system, non-commercial and that can be a good option to replace your default system on your computer.
This system is maintained by a donation system and it is developed by a single person. Elive provides an intuitive experience in a system completely ready for daily use.
The desktop is a very custom version of Enlightenment It offers a light and beautiful experience that works great on even the oldest computers.
This Linux distribution is based on the GNU / Linux Debian distribution which is based on providing a perfectly stable and powerful system.
It can be run directly in live mode without the need to install with its own guided persistence feature.
In addition to that if you want to turn your computer into a powerful workstation, this Linux distro has a very friendly installer that includes many features to facilitate the process.
Elive is a mix between an easy to use system for inexperienced users and includes incredibly useful tools for the advanced, this hybrid system so to speak comes in the form of a clean and beautiful yet powerful desktop for any task.
De the main characteristics that we can highlight of this distribution we find:
- Lightness and speed
- Effects and a beautiful desktop
- Intuitive and simple
- Guided and automated
- Complete, packed with apps and features
- Multimedia
- Own features and integration
- Futuristic and clean desk
- Comfortable to work
- No need to install and save sessions
- Installer with migration, update and automatic modes
- Works with 256 MB of RAM and 500 Mhz CPU
- Full root access
- Programming functions
About the new Elive release
Some days ago the developer of the Linux distribution Elive announcement through a statement on your blog the availability of the new version of the distribution.
In this way Thanatermesis announced on the blog:
After 8 years of silent development, the third stable version of Elive is available, the result is simply incredible and the integration is magnificent, it is not even possible to describe every internal function and the new website only contains a small portion of its features.
Unfortunately, not everything is rainbow and perfection, lack of resources made the launch too delayed, and this led to old packages and drivers, but despite that, the end result is really worth it, Elive 3.0 is the system most useful that was created.
Underhood, Elive 3.0 is based on Debian 7 ("Wheezy"), along with the Enlightenment 17 desktop environment. adapted.
elive only requires 192 MB of main memory according to system requirements and it is only available as a 32 bit version, with kernel that uses PAE. The distribution does not support UEFI firmware, but it also runs on older hardware.
The latter, however, takes 24 hours.
Basically in this new version of the distribution we can highlight:
- Improved designs and beautiful interfaces made by professional designers.
- Better performance, integrity, and features.
- More tools to make your own hacks and customizations.
- Make many waiting ideas come true.
Download Elive 3.0
Users can download the distribution immediately after a donation. If you cannot or do not want to pay, you must download the distribution through the torrent network or request the download link by email.
For this you must go to the official website of the project and in its download section you can obtain the download link of the distribution by placing your email. The link is this.
Or as mentioned above you can download the distribution from Torrent, for this you must download the following Torrent file which you must use with a Torrent client of which you can find some that we recommend here on the blog. The link is this.
And to save the image on a USB I can recommend the use of etcher