Elive 2.0 Topaz
April 1st 2010 02:21
I wrote a couple weeks ago about Elive 2.0:
Here's a Linux Distribution that offers something new: Enlightenment. Elive's website says it will turn your computer "into a high-powered work-station with an Interface that will dazzle anyone who sees it." They're not kidding. This distro is so different that it's sure to climb the popularity charts at popular Linux download and information sites.
Other Elive Features
Elive is more than just eye-candy (although users will almost certainly spend way too much time configuring the desktop and windows). Elive has super functionality, too. Right clicking anywhere on the screen presents the applications and system menus, and the menus are full of software.
Because Elive is based on Debian, the software choices are fantastic, and .deb packages can be loaded quickly and easily. There are certain pieces of software that have to be customized, and the website claims that over 500 programs have been adjusted for Elive already.
And Elive is fast. It boots fast, runs fast, and even shuts down fast. It works extremely well on older hardware, and recognizes even the troublesome Broadcom 43xx wireless card. The graphics don't slow the system down one bit. Elive melds functionality and beauty with seeming ease, something many distros have failed at over the years.
To sum up, Elive is a distribution that will make Linux users both new and old content, offering new gadgets and gizmos to both, and mixing in plenty of useful tools.
But, now that I've used it for several weeks, I'm not quite as enamored with it as I was then. I still like Elive, but it has a few quirky behaviors that make me long for Gnome, or even KDE, that hardware-hating bastard of a Desktop Environment. Elive "recovers from serious system error" too often. (At least it recovers.) And it feels bare-bones.
It is a light system, so feeling bare-bones isn't really a huge slam, but I like bare-bones with a full feel. I can't even right-click the wifi icon in the bottom right to see what's going on. Why not?! And "iconify" instead of "minimize" irritates me. Why, I don't know, but it does.
And I checked out Elive's competition - moonOS. It's at least as good, if not better. And it's completely free. Elive made me donate $10 or write an article. I wrote one, and I'm still a fan, but open source should be open source.
Although if I end up making a few buck off a blog someday, I won't complain.
Here's a Linux Distribution that offers something new: Enlightenment. Elive's website says it will turn your computer "into a high-powered work-station with an Interface that will dazzle anyone who sees it." They're not kidding. This distro is so different that it's sure to climb the popularity charts at popular Linux download and information sites.
Other Elive Features
Elive is more than just eye-candy (although users will almost certainly spend way too much time configuring the desktop and windows). Elive has super functionality, too. Right clicking anywhere on the screen presents the applications and system menus, and the menus are full of software.
Because Elive is based on Debian, the software choices are fantastic, and .deb packages can be loaded quickly and easily. There are certain pieces of software that have to be customized, and the website claims that over 500 programs have been adjusted for Elive already.
And Elive is fast. It boots fast, runs fast, and even shuts down fast. It works extremely well on older hardware, and recognizes even the troublesome Broadcom 43xx wireless card. The graphics don't slow the system down one bit. Elive melds functionality and beauty with seeming ease, something many distros have failed at over the years.
To sum up, Elive is a distribution that will make Linux users both new and old content, offering new gadgets and gizmos to both, and mixing in plenty of useful tools.
But, now that I've used it for several weeks, I'm not quite as enamored with it as I was then. I still like Elive, but it has a few quirky behaviors that make me long for Gnome, or even KDE, that hardware-hating bastard of a Desktop Environment. Elive "recovers from serious system error" too often. (At least it recovers.) And it feels bare-bones.
It is a light system, so feeling bare-bones isn't really a huge slam, but I like bare-bones with a full feel. I can't even right-click the wifi icon in the bottom right to see what's going on. Why not?! And "iconify" instead of "minimize" irritates me. Why, I don't know, but it does.
And I checked out Elive's competition - moonOS. It's at least as good, if not better. And it's completely free. Elive made me donate $10 or write an article. I wrote one, and I'm still a fan, but open source should be open source.
Although if I end up making a few buck off a blog someday, I won't complain.
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