The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.18

This version includes a greatly improved new kernel and a lot of upgraded packages:

• Network Configurator: LinuxNIT has almost finished net-connector. We are currently using it at now for connecting to the internet by wired and wireless interfaces. It is now perfectly usable and stable, but please report anything wrong you found with it. Thanks LinuxNIT!
• Bookmarks: Firefox bookmarks have been updated with new entries: a good list of Gimp links and tutorials, a big list of articles about Elive since its first version, and also some about EFL development.
• Kernel: Kernel updated to version 2.6.26.8
  • Wireless: All the currently available wireless drivers have been added, including the newest ath9k for Atheros cards.
  • MacBooks: The bug about the WEP encription in Macbooks has been finally solved using the new ath9k driver included on this kernel.
  • Note: If you have a spare Wireless USB device that you don't use, you are welcome to send it to the Elive Team that will use in the wireless drivers development tests. Just send an email to elivesystems at gmail.com. Thanks for your collaboration!

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If you want to Collaborate with Elive, you can fill up your knowledgements in the Collaborators page.
If you have a spare USB Wireless device that you don't use, you can end it to the Elive Team that will use in the wireless drivers development tests.Just fill up an email to elivesystems at gmail.com. Thanks for your collaboration !

The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.9.15

This version includes better support for MacBooks and a much better network configurator

• MacBooks: There's a re-work in the macbook support, fixing some bugs like the installation and the webcam support
• Wireless / Network: Our new application to configure networks called Net-Connector is at a pretty good stage. All the known bugs are fixed and the autoconnect mode seems to be working properly. Since there are no known remaining bugs on it, we invite you to find new ones!, you can report them to http://bugs.elivecd.org and assign them directly to LinuxNIT. I give full credit to LinuxNIT for this magnificent application.

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The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.10

This version doesn't include Exalt anymore (network configurator). You have a new application available in Elpanel (not in the desktop gadget yet). It is in a early development stage but you are more than welcome to report any bug (or request feature) on http://bugs.elivecd.org. If you prefer you can still install Exalt or Wicd at your choice.

• Bar: Ibar is replaced by Itask-ng. Now elive has a zooming bar similar to the one of MacOsX like on the oldests versions of Elive in E16. It also has a very good feature enabled by default: 'lock icons' which prevents the user from removing accidentaly the icons.
• Vim: Color Scheme Hacks, the default color theme of Elive has been hacked for a better development/coding. Reading the code has been greatly improved, an example is available on this screenshot.
• PDF Printer: Is now possible to directly create PDF's from a page, document, or anything just by selecting to print in a PDF file in the printer menu.
• Networks: This version includes a new application called net-connector for configuring wifi and wired connections. This very nice application is developed by LinuxNIT and it can be started from Elpanel.
  
• Thunar features: New and very useful features are added in Thunar:
  • Admin mode: This feature runs a thunar with admin privileges, in this way is possible to access and/or modify any file of the system. This is implemented for users that doesn't know 'how to edit a configuration in /etc' for example.
  • Resize: This feature allows the user to resize images. Imagine a selection of 1000 photos which need to be resized, by selecting this option all of them will be resized in a subdirectory.
  • Create links: This feature simply creates a symbolic link of a file or a directory.
  • Suggeriments: Do you have a very good feature to include in the File-Manager? Your idea is welcome! Just fill in a request feature in the BTS of Elive.
• Installer:
  • Reboot: Now reboot is not needed anymore after repartitioning the hard disk.
  • Partitions listing: Better listing of partitions with correct removing from the list of the previous selected ones.
  • Fake partitions: No fake partitions for the installed system anymore (that happened when the user had removed a partition during the installation process without rebooting).
  • Partition info: Now the size of the partitions is also shown in the list.

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The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.02

The improvement of Elive for the next Stable release is proceeding smoothly, also profiting from the up coming release of Debian, to make a new Gold series release(based on Debian Stable). All that is needed now is to finish implementing a few more things and do the needed stability tests, and add more applications to the new translations system. Any help with this translations process is more than welcome (also for English), to get started just run "eltrans" and the translation process will begin.

This version includes:

• Terminal: Fixed a bug which made the terminal unreadable (white background under white fonts). If you use a different terminal on a Elive system, such as you try to ssh into your Elive system from a gnome-based system, now the colors are adapted on the fly.
• Happy Hacking Keyboards: Special support for Happy Hacking Keyboards (pro2) with a more intuitive remapping described at boot of the system (and the possibility to disable it). These keyboards are quite expensive but very comfortable, the touch is very good and has a special layout which allows you to work without moving around your hands much.
• Thumbnails for RAW images: Thunar (the file-manager) now shows thumbnails of RAW images with a new added special feature that works regardless of format and model of the camera used.
• Installer: (Warning: these features are still in beta stage and maybe not working correctly, please DO backup your system first and report any problem encountered)
  • Upgrade Mode: This feature has been long expected by all Elive users who want to reinstall Elive without losing users and files in the process
  • Migration Mode: This feature allows the user to migrate any Linux system to an Elive one. If the user installs on the same partition of the old system the installer asks if is needed to save users, configurations, files, etc.
  • Verification: During the system installation, there's a check of the installed files to verify the integrity.
  • Boot list: Small bug fixed about a double entry in Grub.

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The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.8.8

This version of Elive solves 2 important problems found in the last versions: e17 has fixed a very annoying mouse bug (more exactly with the focus) and it is now possible to configure the network again (for now, we use network-manager instead of exalt, but only use dhcp and not static mode).

• Boot options: Feature added: changedevice: it allow you to change the device in the boot process. Imagine that you want to boot from an USB stick but your computer doesn't boot from USB sticks, or you have problem in the middle of the boot of Elive using CD's, with this feature you can boot from the CD and before the init process starts, you can eject the CD and insert a USB containing Elive to continue the boot process.
• Hotkeys: Mute key working now
• E17: Updated to the last version of the SVN, now some modules like battery, temperature, cpufrequency.. are enabled only if your hardware supports it, if not, they don't appear on your desktop.
• File Manager Previews: Now Thunar can preview XCF (gimp native format) images, and Nintendo-DS roms
• Automounters: This is a very requested-to-fix feature, you can now umount and mount devices without problems from thunar while the autolaunchers system of Elive is still working. If you have any problem with them now, like no-permissions, you should report the bug immediately.
• Kernel / Drivers:
  • Kernel: Updated to version 2.6.25.16
  • Machines: Special suppport for MSI WIND laptops
  • Misc Hardware: Improved support during boot process to detect special hardware/machines, if you couldn't boot Elive in one of your machines, you should try this version.

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The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.8.4

This version has some important fixes and temporary ones

• Fast Boot mode removed. it is not really useful sincer is not possible to accelerate the boot for generic machines (Elive is adapted to any hardware). It is only possible when a system is made for a specific hardware. You would also need to remove a lot of modules in the kernel and enable it in fixed mode, and a smaller kernel that loads faster, remove unused services and enable fixed ones. In other words: be patient with the boot of your operating system, at least you can maintain it without reboot for more than one year like this Elive user (see uptime), if you need faster boots you can try the suspend feature
• Kernel: Back to the old mode configuration, if you have problems booting the last version of Elive your system should boot with this one
• Drivers: Added 2 new branches of ralink drivers that are needed for the EeePC model 1000h
• VFAT: Fixed a small bug that caused the /mnt/Windows_C partition to not mount by default
• Installer translated to Spanish! (only spanish right now). Thanks to 'DammitJim' for this translation! More translators are welcome, you just need to run the Eltrans application from the Elive Menu
• Enhanced Menus support for Windows applications, now if you install a Windows application you can see a new menu called 'Wine' that appears in your list of applications, with your installed applications/games directly listed
• E17 Annoying bug with the mouse temporarily fixed with a downgrade, you should notice that you don't the options of reboot/shutdown/suspend/hibernate now... but of course you are using a development version :)

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The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of a much improved development version of Elive

This version includes (finally!) the new Installer, rewritten almost entirely, with better and more user friendly features. It allows the user to install a recent version of Elive on the computer (warning: upgrade mode of installer not implemented yet)

• Installer available in this version! Ready to install Elive on your hard disk. Note: This installer is under development and not finished, The upgrade feature that allows your old Elive system to be updated to current instead of a fresh installs, is not implemented yet!
• Firefox 3: This version of Elive includes Firefox 3 (Iceweasel), that has many new and nice features, is more user friendly and useful, better looking, and apparently faster. The Elive Bookmarks are updated too with new and better ones!
• Kernel: The version of kernel 2.6.24.7 is updated with a better configuration for IDE/SATA/SCSI chipsets, so it should work on more computers, but if this is NOT the case for you (that your hard disk or cdrom media, can not boot it or are not recognized anymore), please report ASAP to the Elive channel.
• Madwifi: driver updated with new hal version, that means basically, newest (atheros) cards are supported now, like the EeeePC's model.
• Hibernation: Some changes to the hibernation method, it should work on more computers and in a better way now.
• Autoeject: Elive has implemented a autoeject system without umount being needed a while ago. This feature has not worked properly but now the eject button is detected and managed entirely by hal, that is the correct way to do it.
• QT/KDE: Some users have wanted to install some qt/kde applications, now you can install them in Elive for a more integrated look with the rest of applications!
• Resolutions selector: Small bug fixed (boot resolutions selector).
• Console keymap: Fixed, now in the installed mode you can have your chosen keyboard keymap in console mode (non-X mode)
• readahead implemented
• Skype: Moved to the static version. Because there are no sources, it is not possible to compile with the correct libraries. The static version is larger in size but fixes bugs in the interface like widgets and buttons

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