The Linux distribution combines beauty with ease of use. Elive is based on Debian and uses as its windows manager, which gives the distribution a Mac OS X look and feel. Elive comes with dozens of easy-to-use desktop applications that just work. Elive started as a live CD, but now at version 1.0 it works well as a standard hard drive installation. The latest unstable ISO, 1.5, should be released shortly.

I starting booting an Elive CD a couple of months ago so I could show off Enlightenment to a few co-workers. Then my wife got a new laptop and I inherited her old Hewlett-Packard Pavilion N5290, with a 750MHz Pentium III processor, 30GB hard drive, and a paltry 256MB of memory.

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. This is a list of live CDs. A live CD or live DVD is a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to. Cpukiller 2.0. Elive is a very optimized linux, it works very fast in old computers, featuring unique experience and beautiful desktop makes it a perfect OS for daily use.

At first I tried installing Solaris 10 on it, but I could never get the network interface working. Then I tried the latest version of Ubuntu, but it kept freezing in the middle of the install. I finally gave up and installed Elive in less than 15 minutes. The installation has language support for 58 languages. The old laptop now boots faster than my wife's new one running Windows Vista Home, which has a 1.6GHz Celeron M processor and 1.5GB of memory; in other words, it's twice as fast and has six times the memory of the Elive hardware. Nazz Nazz Rapidshare.