A very quick look at elive
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 19:25.
elive was the last stop on this little four-day distro-hopping junket for the ugly little laptop, and to be honest, I only tried it because someone suggested it on one of the other reviewlets. Unfortunately, some real-life issues intervened yesterday, and I couldn’t spend more than an hour or so with it.
I’m glad I took a look though: This is a very impressive desktop. I’ll let the screenshots off the home page do the talking (mostly because I never set up anything different).
From the live environment, this has to be the most impressive setup I’ve seen thus far, even if it does step outside the XFCE boundaries I had drawn earlier this week. You couldn’t ask for a more beautiful setup, particularly on a machine that was intended for Windows 98.
Desktop effects are a top priority, and it shows.
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Elive is more than Debian and enlightenment ? So What ?
Changelog shows the distro character; the important things considered in Elive?
The emphasis is in multimedia(presentation), and memory management(less drams). The trick is to use i386 platform and less instructions(risc) to speed up the operating system(i686 branch prediction now uses 21 stages; whereas i386 uses less stages to do the same simple jobs depending only on cpu bus PLL frequencies).
Elive thinks cdrw may be more faulty than cdr? Not true, but some older cdrom does not read cdrw format. Ubuntu official disks had track alignment problems unless you use DVD(instead of cdrom) to read Ubuntu disks. Burner software study will help Elive to explore DVD formats and codec conversions(a bigger part of multimedia presentation)?
The donation requirement turned off many cheapskates in open sourced community members. But then Linux distros are time sensitive; the next kernel release will obsolete all the stable versions, no matter who you are. http://ajaxwindows.com will be more stable and popular; if they have more video coverage than MP3 audio emphasis, with only browser requirement for desktop?