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The Elive team announced today yet another unstable release of their Elive Live CD Linux distribution, now at version 1.9.31. Being powered by Debian, Enlightenment E17 and Linux kernel 2.6.26.8, the new development version of Elive, brings many improvements and bug fixes in various areas. But, the good news is that, among other things, the team introduced full support for the Acer Aspire One netbook. Without further introduction, let’s take a closer look at the changes brought by Elive 1.9.31:
· Updated Linux kernel to version 2.6.26.8-elive-686 (revision 40);
· Added a new software that allows users to create USB bootable sticks with Elive;
· Added support for the Acer Aspire One netbook, even includes a tool to disable the fan in case you don’t need it;
· Updated the installer to better detect other installed operating systems and your custom Enlightenment themes, bar and wallpapers are now saved when reinstalling;
· Fixed various bugs in the installer. Also, the upgrade mode now works with a dedicated /home partition;
· Adobe’s Flash Player plugin was updated to version 10.0.22.87;
· The old XMMS was replaced by Audacious, as the default audio player;
· Re-added the Elive Essence, now with new features;
· Updated the console to support more languages, improved characters and smaller fonts;
· Fixed Russian language support.
Elive Linux sports a large number of applications, ranging from office and Internet-related apps, to games and entertainment. With Elive, you can watch movies, listen to your favorite songs or chat with friends. E17, the development version of the Enlightenment window manager that comes with Elive Unstable, is brought to you from CVS, and is updated on a regular basis through Elive’s testing repository. If you want to test Elive, it is recommended to use a computer with minimum 128 of RAM and a 300 MHz CPU.
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Elive 1.31 and later does NOT fully support the Acer Aspire One A series versions (8.9″ screen), nor the H series (11.6″ screen).
On the A series (A110 and A150) Elive has two critical bugs, preventing the use of the Elive distro:
Bug report : http://bugs.elivecd.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=414&project=2
Elive shuts down within 30-60 seconds after booting, whether one boots to the Enlightenment desktop, or to a root prompt, indicating a problem with the Kernel compile parameters used for the Elive supplied kernel.
And bugreport : http://bugs.elivecd.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=413&project=2
You cannot boot with an SD card in either of the two cardreaders. The boot will hang just after populating the udev framework.
Appearently the much advertised “full support for the Acer Aspire One netbook” stems from testing Elive on only the 10″ D series models.
So stear clear of Elive if you do not have an Acer Aspire One D150 or D250. Elive won’t work on other versions at present.
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