Elive 2.9.14 beta is now available for public testing

Nov 13, 2017 15:08 GMT  ·  By

Two weeks after the previous beta release, the development team behind the Debian-based Elive Linux operating system released a new beta version with another layer of improvements and bugfixes.

The upcoming major Elive 3.0 release is being developed for the past several months under the Elive 2.9.x umbrella, and the latest snapshot is now Elive 2.9.14 beta, which brings fixes to various of the preinstalled apps, as well as under-the-hood improvements.

These include better support for Nvidia and AMD Radeon GPUs, a fix for a crash with the Terminology terminal emulator that occurred when opening new tabs, new desktop scaling factor, as well as automatic selection and sizing of fonts based on your display's DPI and resolution.

The detection and handling of stuck processes was improved in the processes watcher utility so that they won't consume a large amount of CPU and RAM, the overall design of the OS saw numerous improvements, and there's now a new USB tool to securely record live media.

"This release includes a ton of polishments and fine-tuning, you can see big improvements in both the visual aspects and the performance and stability of the entire system, hope you enjoy it," said the Elive development team in the release announcement.

Multiple performance improvements all over the system

The Elive 2.9.14 beta release also contains tons of performance improvements all over the system, especially for encrypted installations, release mode, and compile flags. It also optimizes the desktop effects making it a lot faster and more responsive than before.

Other than that, this beta disables ARGB calculations for borders, reduces memory usage by switching to dash in some daemons, and also reduces temporal writes during live mode. Elive 2.9.14 beta is now available for download from our website if you want to take it for a test drive on your PC.