If people want that dock bar then they will probably just get a mac.

So, $1000 for a dock? Nope. Ubuntu + Avant Window Navigator= Free
I wanted a dock... I got it.

¿Como consigo el modulo de instalacion? muchas gracias

Why would anyone buy a Mac just to have a dock?

A very successful Elive + Compiz, unless something is more stable as it says in this article.
Logically with 2048 MB of RAM and Nvidia Gforce 7300LE , Elive , flies.
Daniel , thank you very much for this wonderful article and also thank Thanatermesis for the great work you are doing with Elive.
Greetings:
Agust

*sigh*

As someone who went through all the sorrows and joys of downloading/compiling/installing E17 more than three years ago, when it was still in ***EARLY*** development (as in, CVS only and little to no documentation)... one of the most exciting things about it was that it was that it was supposed to support compositing from the ground up. And it did. The APIs and the capabilities are still there, largely untapped by the developers for some time now... and here we are praising E17 for its integration with software that it wasn't originally supposed to need. Talk about disappointment.

512mb ram and a geforce 5200 is hardly *extreme* conditions actually that is *ideal* hardware

my box only has a geforce2 400 mx and runs compiz just fine as well and as far as that goes elive only needs around 96mb to boot (i have found 64mb doesn't quite cut if for the livecd)

downloaded to see what all the fuss was about ... runs quite well on an old box 1ghz cpu 1gb ram intel 830m graphics effects just blew me away id realy love to see this on a fast machine ... omg i can only imagine

Works well with Athlon 1800+ A Go RAM and Geforce MX400.
E17 is still missing a bit of stability but is improving.
Elive is pleasant to use and aesthetically coherent. But I prefer lighter window managers such Openbox for a daily use. Elive is my OS for sundays.

First of all, who would buy a mac full stop!! Second of all, this is a beautiful distro, runs well on my desktop: 2048mb ram and phenom x3 8650, hd4670 ati gfx using proprietary driver. Also on my laptop: Acer 6935g: 4gb ddr3 ram, centrino t6400 dual core cpu, 1gb dedicated 8600m gt gfx 1366x768 res.

Easy on the eyes, and a whole lotta fun, never gets boring!!

I have just installed Elive E17 on my computer and I am very pleased with the performance so far. Nice clean lines, Has everything that I need + more and very pleasing to the eye. Well done folks. previous OS was Ubuntu.

Elive is a live CD Linux distribution based on Debian that uses the Enlightenment window manager. Elive aims to provide an aesthetically pleasing environment with a full suite of desktop applications that runs efficiently on older systems. Its developers aren't finished yet, but they've come a long way with Elive since the release of 0.3 more than a year ago. This CD shows how beautiful distributions can become without being bloated.

When I first tried to use the latest test release of Elive (0.6.1) I was disappointed to have it hang at the loading screen. A check of the console revealed that it was having trouble mounting the NTFS partition; the exact error message was "Windows broking Elive with his NTFS." Despite the claim that the startup script disabled the partition so it wouldn't break Elive, I still couldn't boot on numerous desktop systems. Finally, I disabled my SATA controller in the BIOS, and Elive booted properly.

At boot time Elive offers a selection of keymaps, but this selection did not include the Dvorak map, which I use, so I had to use QWERTY. I chose to start with the default Elive theme over the Night theme that is also offered, and I logged in to a beautiful, calming light blue desktop.

The first thing I did was open Firefox -- and received a "page could not be displayed" error. Investigation revealed that my network card was detected properly but the eth0 interface was not enabled. Once I brought up eth0 manually and specified my default gateway the Internet worked properly.

I began to look through the applications menu and was amazed at the breadth of programs I found. There were movie/sound players (MPlayer and XMMS by default), video editors (Kino and Cinelerra), sound editors (ReZound, ZynAddSubFx, and Hydrogen), office programs (Abiword, Xpdf, and Gnumeric), 2-D/3-D graphics editors (the GIMP and Blender), and more. When I first tried to play some movie trailers I found that the rendering engine had some problems with my system. I had to change the video output settings in MPlayer before it would work properly. The sound worked flawlessly from the start.

While looking through the audio menu I found a shortcut labeled "Elive Essence," which started a stream of ambient music playing in XMMS. I kept it running through most of the time I was using Elive and heard one advertisement, after about an hour of play. The rest of the time it was calming and unintrusive -- a welcome extra, considering how much time I usually spend figuring out which songs won't distract me from work. Elive also includes the streamtuner program, which allows you to select from a wide variety of streaming music from many different sources. With my hard drives disabled, this was a blessing. Unfortunately, some of the streams required RealPlayer which, as one might expect, could not be included on the CD due to conflicts with the liberties granted by the respective licenses.

How you know linux is the best SO, and Elive for my is the best distro ever, and is amazing how it combine devian and elighment, that gives an beatifull interface (you ca customize it) and easylness to use.

Realmente excelente para equipos con pocos recursos

Es realmente espectacular este sistema, la interfaz que tiene es super simple y con mucho estilo, sin duda un gran S.O, maravilloso.

J'ai toujours eu envie d'utiliser des window managers comme windowmaker ou enlightenment. La difficulté que j'ai eue à suivre les evolution de e17 (svn qui changent plusieurs fois par semaine, parfois même qui plantent jusqu'à la mise à jour suivante, et encore pas toujours :-) a fait que j'avais fini par abandonner, jusqu'à ce que je découvre cette distribution. Elive fait exactement ce que j'espérais: une base debian qui est ma distribution préférée, avec E17 comme gestionnaire, compiz étant un bonus non négligeable qui permet de voir ce dont linux est capable aujourd'hui grâce à une communauté de développeurs jamais en manque de bonnes idées. Avec cette première version stable Elive topaz je vais pouvoir l'installer sur un de mes PC et commencer à "kiffer dessus à mort!" :-D
un grand bravo à son créateur!

Como hago para descargar el modulo de instalacion

Sencillamente embaucador. Perfecto!

I'm all new to linux and have tried Ubuntu, Mint, Ultimate, Puppy and Fedore. I like each of these for different reasons but was still looking for that pure elegance that I knew would be out there somewhere. Then I was reading an article on E17 and clicked on the Elive link. WOW what an absolutely awesome sight. Smooth, elegant, nd modern. It was also different from the other distros and i just had to have it. Reading about the softeware was like a dream coming true. Everthing you need is here in one distinctlt beautiful package. So I encourange you to take a look and see just exactly what this distro is and has to offer.

I use to use ubuntu 11.04 but now i switch for Elive because its the most beautiful distro i ever seen

AUNQUE EN AMERICA LATINA EL USO MASIVO DE LINUX NO PASA A SER MAS QUE UNA QUIMERA, LA VERSION DE TOPAZ ELIVE 2.0 CUMPLE EL OBJETIVO DE ATRAER A LOS USUARIOS ATRAVES DE UN SHOW VISUAL UNICO. UN DESPLIEGE DE GRAFICOS QUE CAUSAN UN EXTASIS PROFUNDO EN LAS RETINAS DE QUIEN LO INSTALA. Y LO MAS DESTACABLE ES QUE SE LOGRA CON MINIMOS RECURSOS INCLUSO CON AQUELLOS PC QUE YA ESTAN DESAUSIADOS PARA EL INHUMANO SISTEMA DE LA VENTANA. NO HAY MAS QUE AGREGAR, QUIEN QUIERA CONOCER LA LIBERTAD EN EL MAXIMO SENTIDO DE LA PALABRA Y TENER A SU ALCANCE UN SISTEMA OPERATIVO QUE PASA MAS POR UNA OBRA DE ARTE DIGITAL QUE UN ENTORNA DE PC DEBE Y TIENE QUE INSTALAR ELIVE.
ELIVE DEMUESTRA QUE EN LA VIDA FALTAN COSAS POR VER Y SENTIR Y UNA DE ELLAS ES SU INTERFAZ GRAFICA.
QUE INSISTO A MI JUICIO DEBE ESTAR EN EL MUSEO DE LONDRES O EL DE PARIS...