[brlug-general] E16 finally has serious competiton.

[Edmund Cramp]

>From the elivecd web page - "The minimum hardware for running Elive is a 100 MHz CPU and 64 MB of RAM, but the minimum recommended hardware is 300 MHz and 128 Mb of RAM."

The Microsoft XP minimum spec was 233MHz CPU and 64Mb of RAM, with 300MHz and 128Mb recommended, but quite honestly XP is unusable (for me at least) at anything less than 1.6GHz and 1Gb.

I've tried various alternative distributions over the years and generally found that, despite claims to the contrary, most OS's are not that much fun unless you have a fast machine or a CLI.

I'll be interested to play with elive since I've got a 1Gb, 512Mb machine needing a good fscking before I reinstall XP on it - I'll be pleasantly surprised if it's useable.

Regards,
Edmund Cramp - eac at motion-labs.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On Behalf Of Will Hill
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:47 PM
To: General at brlug.net; Desktop SIG
Subject: [brlug-general] E16 finally has serious competiton.

E17 + Compiz.

http://boycottnovell.com/2009/02/13/video-elive-e17/

With more than one cube, E17 will deliver what I've come to expect from E16 - multiple desktops each with multiple windows and and easy way to view and select between them.  They run it on a EEEPC, so the performance hit is not so bad.  With 3D accel, it looks as fast or faster than E16 in 2D.  

While Windows 7 tries to catch up to KDE and Mac, free software is leaving them that many more years in the past.  Well, it's not entirely free.  

http://www.elivecd.org/
http://www.elivecd.org/Help/License

It's got non commercial clauses.  That's a shame and it will cause delays between when they get things done and when the rest of the world will have it as free software.  Take what it gives.

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