Elive CD- Live Image

Elive CD- Live Image  

Enlightenment Desktop Environment.

The Elive project has published a new stable release of its Debian based distribution featuring the Enlightenment desktop. The new version uses Debian 12 (Old Stable) as a base and offers both versions 16 and 27 of the Enlightenment interface.

The unique features on this release include OpenRC as an optional Init System available during installation for users who prefer a SystemD alternative that adheres closely to the UNIX philosophy. Synthwave Player is an impressive new music player developed for months by Elive is included as a default.  An extremely light weight application for Voice Control for hands free interaction (no-AI), and it is optional. 

Desktop Clock: 

A simple, lightweight desktop clock that we made for the E16 desktop. 

Enlightenment 27: 

A preview of the last Enlightenment E27 with a few Elive features are included by default to use and play.

This will be the last build of Elive including the very solid Debian 12 back port with all the stability needed to run. 

It is in an extremely polished system,  a perfect LTS snapshot of Elive Stable."

Elive 3.8.50 runs SystemD by default, but users can optionally run SysV Init instead, with the selection made during the installation process. 

When SysV init is selected, OpenRC runs as the service manager on top of SysV init.

Elive, or Enlightenment live CD, is a Debian based desktop Linux distribution and live CD featuring the Enlightenment Window Manager. 

Besides being   pre-configured and ready for daily desktop use, it also includes "Elpanel" - a control centre for easy system and desktop administration. 

Elive is a non commercial, cost free operating system designed for everyday use and it offers a much faster, friendlier and feature rich alternative to an expensive proprietary OS.

With Elive, computers up to 15 years old can be transformed to high performance machines with a stunning interface which is fully customisable.

I think Elive tried to become a commercial entity but failed. It is now crowd funding its project which is a good thing. It looks like the Project Leader who started it has joined the team.

It keeps on supporting 32 bit computers.

Its 64 bit version is 4.2GB.