The development team from Elive has proudly announced a new unstable version of their Debian-based Live CD, Elive 1.9.02, which comes with an improved installer and a handful of bug fixes - "The improvement of Elive for the next Stable release is proceeding smoothly, also profiting from the upcoming release of Debian, to make a new Gold series release (based on Debian Stable). All that is needed now is to finish implementing a few more things and do the needed stability tests, and add more applications to the new translations system. Any help with this translations process is more than welcome (also for English), to get started just run "eltrans" and the translation process will begin."

As we've mentioned above, the Elive installer received some interesting features, such as an Upgrade Mode and a Migration Mode, the former allowing existing Elive users to upgrade their system to a newer version, while the latter is designed for users of other Linux-based operating systems, allowing them to migrate to Elive. The installer also includes a Verification function that will verify the integrity of the installed files during the system installation process. Moreover, the "double entry" bug in GRUB was fixed in this version.

Elive 1.9.02 fixes a nasty bug that made the Terminal unreadable, therefore, if you want to connect to your Elive machine via SSH, the terminal colors will be adapted in real-time.

Two new features were also introduced in Elive 1.9.02:

- Thunar, Elive's file manager, can show thumbnails for RAW images (NEF, CR2, etc);
- Happy Hacking Keyboards (pro2) is now supported.

About Elive:

Elive is an operating system created by using Debian GNU/Linux as its basis, and it offers a lot of eye-candy while keeping the resources consumption very low with the help of the Enlightenment window manager.

The Elive Linux distribution sports a large number of applications, ranging from office applications to games. You can watch movies and, even better, you can create your own. E16 is the stable edition of the Enlightenment window manager that comes with Elive. Besides this, E17, the development version of Enlightenment, is brought to you from CVS and is updated on a regular basis through Elive's testing repository. If you want to use Elive, it is recommended you use a computer with minimum 128 of RAM and a 300 MHz CPU.

Download Elive 1.9.02 right now from Softpedia. Remember that is an unstable release and it should not be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only! You can report bugs to the Elive's Testers Mailing List.