Linked by Flavio Villanustre on Sun 4th Sep 2005 17:11 UTC
Elive is a Live CD featuring Enlightenment as the only window manager (and desktop shell too). Its version 0.1 was mostly an alpha release, and while E16 ran fine, E17 was severely broken in many aspects. Elive 0.3 fixes most of those problems and presents E17 at a point where it's perfectly usable for the day-to-day desktop. Read the review here. Update: screenshots.
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Member since:I didn't mean to sound too critical of enlightenment at all ... sorry if i did. Sure E is great as a lighteight Windowmanager and choice is good. It just winds me up if people make comments like "E totally outcoding Gnome/KDE" and that "E is the best DE for Linux", especially when it comes from one of the editors of OSNews. Not only is is factually wrong, it is also very immature and does not reflect very well on the quality of editors.
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You're right but Gnome and KDE still need some code tuning.
If I'm not wrong, the simple battery applet in Gnome (Ubuntu) is using as much as 20MB of RAM.
This is a little less than the total amount of memory used by OS4 on the Amiga after boot.
E17 is going to what is really needed for desktop on Linux : a nice and light desktop environment.
Anyway, choice is synonym of freedom and initiator of evolution.