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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. Neosat Software And Loader For Sale. 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. 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. Elive comes with many applications. Iceweasel, the unbranded version of Firefox, is the default browser, MPlayer is the video player, Oxine plays DVDs, Streamtuner lets you find Internet radio stations, and XMMS plays audio. Also included are video editors Kino and Cinelerra; sound editors ReZound, ZynAddSubFx, and Hydrogen; office programs Abiword, Xpdf, and Gnumeric;, and graphics editors the GIMP and Blender.

Since it's based on Debian there's no shortage of additional available software titles, which you can install via the Synaptic package manager. Currently there are more than 19,000 packages available. You can manage Elive by using the Elive Panel to change display and audio settings, add users, set up printers, and change themes, which control the look and feel of the desktop.

Using the panel is a breeze even for newbies. If you hover over an icon in the panel, scrolling text on the bottom tells you what the icon represents. The panel is custom to Elive, and is one of the nice things in the distribution that makes it stand out. Download Software Debian Query All Installed Packages.

Elive does a great job with hardware support. I plugged in my Canon digital camera and within minutes I had Gtkam working. All I had to do to get my network card working was go into the Elive panel and activate the wireless connection. By contrast it took an hour and a half to wrestle with my wife's Vista wireless network connection.

Still, Elive has some rough edges, notably in its applications. Iceweasel kept crashing unexpectedly; every time I clicked Send in Yahoo! Mail the browser caused a segmentation fault and crash. After searching on the Debian forums, I that I had to disable a TrueType font setting. Another small problem came when I tried to use the Elive Essence audio streamer under the audio menu; it didn't connect to the server. Getting themes to work also was a bit of a challenge.