Last evening, the hard-working team behind the Elive project announced yet another unstable release of their GNU/Linux Live CD, Elive 1.9.28. There are various improvements and bugfixes in this new development version of Elive, which is a Linux operating system based on the stable version of the Debian 5.0 (Lenny). The good news is that, among other things, the team improved support for Macbooks and the hard disk installer. Without further introduction, let's take a closer look at the changes brought by Elive 1.9.28:

· The listing and detection of hard drive partitions was improved for both the installer and the Live CD;
· Added support for RAID disks. The installer will also contain some documentation about how to install RAID devices;
· In order to improve the boot support for Macbooks, the Elive team replaced the old Lilo boot loader with the popular GRUB. Therefore, Macbooks will no longer fail to boot after executing the fine-tune step (problems caused by Lilo);
· Greatly improved the Elive installer. Numerous bugs were also fixed!

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.

Download Elive 1.9.28 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.