The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of beta version 1.7.2

This version includes some misc features like:

• Menus: This is the preliminary version of improved menus. They are better organized now, with more sections, and they should show any application that the user installs.
• b43 Wireless cards (bcm43xx) are better supported, with a suite to configure it asking for use ndiswrapper or linux native driver
• E17 Updated and improved configuration. More virtual desktops have also been included by default. The segfault bug in the pager is fixed in this version
• Tray First implementation of a trayer in Elive
• User Guide of Elive is updated (and translated to German) thanks to chattrhand
• Terminal and vim have improved functionality and looks

We appreciate your feedbacks about the overall speed/lightness of the system compared to last stable version of Elive. You can say something in our chat channel directly from the running system. If you detect any lagging in the system please consider different setups like disabling composite (which you can select on the startup of the graphical system) in order to report improvements. We would also appreciate feedbacks about composite enabled or disabled in old computers, suggestions for better performances, and memory usage compared to Topaz.

Note that these development releases don’t include the Elive Installer yet because it’s not ready, we also didn’t include the proprietary drivers for now (Nvidia/fglrx) but the opensource drivers should detect your hardware and configure your system perfectly.

You can Download this version at the development section.

Please remember that this is an alpha version of Elive which is uncomplete and may have errors, if you want to see a polished result of Elive try the Stable version instead.

Give us a comment in our chat channel, you can also improve Elive by yourself in github.
Help us to make Elive even better!

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