14 DAY TRIAL // The developers of the Debian-based Elive GNU/Linux distribution leveraging the Enlightenment desktop environment are still trying to finish the major Elive 3.0 release, and they just published a new Beta.
Elive 2.9.12 Beta is here almost two months after the previous beta (versioned 2.9.8), and it looks like it's a big one, adding an extra layer of performance improvements to the desktop and window effects with up to 194%, as well as to video playback, which is now smoother than on previous betas.
Elive's graphical installer, yes the one you don't have to pay to use it anymore, has been refactored in this new beta release to include a validator of characters for usernames, passwords, and hostnames, make the entire installation process a lot easier than before, and also fix numerous bugs, especially for the built-in browser.
Audio, Wi-Fi, and Dock improvements
Audio improvements were also implemented in the Elive 2.9.12 Beta to detect more audio cards, and Wi-Fi support has been improved to automatically notify users when a nearby network connections are available if they aren't already connected to the Internet. Also, the Dock now offers active opened windows access and controls.
Moreover, iconified windows now display their name in the icon on the Dock, the automatic switching of desktop wallpapers was improved to act as a single loop, lots of language translations were updated and proofread to provide explicit messages, and there's now a new bug tracking system in place.
"I’m very proud to announce this version release which is just amazing, it is a very improved environment very suggest as a stable system for your daily use, it is also entirely cost-free like all the recent versions so don’t hesitate to put it in every machine that you have, especially to revive old computers," said the developer in the release announcement.
Elive 2.9.12 Beta brings the major Elive 3.0 stable release one step closer to reality, and you can help the devs finish it by downloading the latest beta ISO image from our website, write it on a USB flash drive, and boot it on your personal computer. Don't forget though that this is still a pre-release version.