The Elive team has proudly announced today a new development version of their E17/Debian-based Live CD, Elive 1.9.10, which brings more installer improvements, new features for the Thunar file manager and some other interesting additions. "This version doesn't include Exalt anymore (network configurator). You have a new application available in Elpanel (not in the desktop gadget yet). It is in an early development stage but you are more than welcome to report any bug (or request feature) on http://bugs.elivecd.org. If you prefer, you can still install Exalt or Wicd at your choice." - said the Elive developers in the official release announcement.

As we've mentioned above, Elive 1.9.10 comes packed with some very interesting installer features. For example, there's no need to reboot the system after you have partitioned the hard drive; no more fake partitions; and the size of the hard disk partitions will be shown in the list and improved partition listings.

The Thunar file manager received a few improvements as well – for instance, admin mode was implemented, and will allow you to run Thunar with root privileges. Moreover, you can now resize images in batch mode, and create symbolic links for a file or folder.

Elive 1.9.10 offers you the possibility to export all kinds of documents in the PDF format, and also to easily configure wireless and wired connections with the help of a new tool called net-connector. Last but not least, the Ibar was replaced by Itask-ng, a new dock that has Mac OS X-like zooming functions.

Elive is an operating system created 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 1.9.10 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this 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 Elive's Bug Tracker.