This is Running Commentary on Installation of Elive

WARNING 

Choose this distribution if YOU have only OLD hardware.

It would run with 500,MB, RAM it shoots up to 1.5GB if you are running programs

Minimum RAM is 2GB.

It is old Bookworm Kernel and compatoble with Debian

It is incompatible with all the ARCH distributions. 

It RUINED my GRUB and I am reinstalling CachyOS and REBORN OS.

No bother, I can install 4 of them in the time I spent installing Elive.

Besides, I can install Enlightenment Desktop on top of GNOME of DEBIAN.

There is also Enlightenment Organization which promote this Desktop.

After several look up for the Live USB for FREE iso (image) download of ELive Linux I found s torrent.

I was a folder 4.2GB contsisting of two 32 bit and 64 bit images.

 

DEBIAN also takes a long time to install since it supports many Desktops on the first install. One can avoid this by downloading only one Live image say, GNOME, KDE or XFCE. 

Do not download Source Code images and they cannot be installed.

DEBIAN Testing images are released every 2 weeks and the last one I downloaded was faulty and I could not use it to install.

It is much less than 4GB and it would have been some fault in download. Thete are no torrent files for Testing. I lost all my Linux images in my safe keeping NTFS Partition.

I have now converted it to Debian GNOME for daving Iso Images.

Installation details.

It started at 13.32.

At 13.42 I formated /partition 9 which had second instance of REBORN OS.

It is detecting the 18 partitions in my NUC.

It is already a bit of a pain but I am not yet annoyed.

At last I got the layout of my Partition Table.

Selected partition 9 with 16.7GB.

It is still brewing grog or alcohol but this is the Month of Wesak and I do not consume alcohol at all, now.

It want a password for a new keyring.

Obliged.

I did not want Google Chrome to snoope.

234 dollar contributions in 10 days.

I decline any contributions because I do not have an account in Australia. 

I would have if I was in CEYLON. 

It is configuring the installation.

I hope it would not ruin my GRUB.

I declined Chrome Browser and SNAP of UBUNTU.

It is running the Terminal and removing redundant stuff.

I am a patient retired doctor and I have gone through this rigmarole from 32 bit time.

Hence no major mishaps along the way.

THANK You Elive.

Long Live Linux is my motto.

I have an account on ELive in my book Linux Essentials.

No reservation intended.

I have already Enlightenment Desktop on top of GNOME and IceWM, blackbox and openbox window managers installed.

I loved Enlightenment Desktop from 32 bit time. With all the animations I cannot resize the Terminal Window to read what is going on the background.

This is something (reading every comment made) I learned from ARCH Linux. 

I take seriously every comment they make in the terminal on Python 3 plus.

It is 14.17 and already one hour.

Not yet finished.

REBORN OS finished installation in 12 minutes and that is why I use ARCH instead of Bookworm of ELive.

However, I am going to keep it as the 10th  distribution in my NUC.

It is finally doing the GRUB and Init.

Anyway it is better than Prism Linux and GARUDA Linux that ruined my GRUB.

Finished at 14.28.

Did It RUIN my GRUB?

By the way, I had the Elive Image in a 8GB SD Card and it would remain there for sometime.

It is saying it is UPDATING my GRUB.

It has only one user.

No Root User but  a Sudo.

Thay violates Linux Principles.

Well it got the GRUB in ORDER with a beautiful Plymouth.

I am booting it now at 14.38.

Thank You again.

My NUC has no Audio but I jacked, my son's USB Audio Jack and I am currently listening to a random music pieces.

Thank You for the Music Elive Linux.

I have no hesitation in recommending it to Newbies. 

One has to learn to be patient in LINUX Installation. That is a cardinal rule.

It (ELIVE) has come a long way.

I am going to install AbiWord now.

It already has Audacity.

Added Lmms ( Grand Linux Sudio Utility) and AbiWord.

AbiWord accessed my current working book on Linux Essentials.

Thank YOU.

Linux ROCKS on ELIVE Linux.

15.00PM and my Tea Time.

Coffee I made at 12PM has gone cold but I would have it now, like ice coffee.

It is bit cold in AUSTRALIA.

It is 16.04 and I am still listen to FREE random music.

THANK You for the MUSIC.

Video quality is poor and they are old time music when video technology was poor when transferring them to. DIGITAL anyway.

My eyesight is poor anyway.

By the way, MPV Player of Linux is Excellent.

Enlightenment Project

Enlightenment Project 

Enlightenment was launched in the 1990s by Carsten “Rasterman” Haitzler as an easy to use Window Manager (WM) for X11. Since then it has expanded to include the one million lines of C code that form the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) and a diverse set of applications. There's a vibrant and active community of developers and users who work on and use the code every day.

Enlightenment

Enlightenment is classed as a “desktop shell” as it provides everything you need to operate your desktop or laptop, but it is not a full application suite. This covers functionality including launching applications, managing their windows and performing system tasks like suspending, rebooting, managing files and so on.

The Enlightenment Project is moving towards using Wayland as the base display system, while Enlightenment itself is to become a full Wayland compositor in its own right. This takes time, and there have been some bumps along the road, but the goal is that support for X11 will be eventually be discontinued (perhaps many years down the road).

Enlightenment is built on top of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL), using the libraries written for the user interface as well as those for the Compositor itself. This means that any improvements made to EFL are included in the Enlightenment Compositor.

Enlightenment also serves the Window Manager and Compositor for Tizen, due in no small part to its efficiency and breadth of features.

See About Enlightenment for more details.

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.

55 Puppy Linux Images in a 32GB USB Stick

This is all I carried from CEYLON  with another 16GB USB stick an assortment of 4 to 8GB USB sticks with a few Bootable Linux Immages. I did not forget to bring the two bear bone NUCs

I forgot to a bring few DVDs in addition for the Laptop of my son. He has lost the interest of the Laptop completely which a heavy stuff to carry. I ERASED the Microsoft Windows and it still has lock on USB Booting. I have found ways to bypass Microsoft hegemony. The Laptop belongs to me not to Microsoft.

Coming back to the USB stick, I thought I had used about 8GB and the rest 24GB is not available for use. I could not format it due to the PUPPY images. I copied all the images and it soon filled up my home ditectory of 20GB. On mental arithmetics 500MB for each image and 55 image would by pass 25GB.

It was Puppy images that caused the  problem. Soon I formatted the USB and it is good as new. I am transferring them back to the USB to relieve the home directory. Except for 5 all are 32 bits and this 64 bit SAGA killed PUPPY LINUX.

That is what I am going to write in my book. If it killed Linux Star of PCLINUXOS it certainly killed Barry Kaular fans.

File transfer is over to the USB and it says it is over 26GB full. Well I can now delete the PUPPY Images folder in my home directors.

I have no intention of running a Server.

I hope somebody run a Server  and I can upload at least the 64 bit images.

Even the Commodore guy with Commodore Linux uses 38GB image and well a Puppy Developer could take the initiative to come up with a image of 32 bit to fill a 32GB USB if not 64GB USB.