Elive is among the lesser-known Linux distributions however holds a particular place in my coronary heart as a result of it makes use of the Enlightenment desktop. For years, Enlightenment was my default as a result of it was one of many extra distinctive and extremely configurable desktops available on the market. Nowadays, only a few distributions supply Enlightenment, so when Elive presents a brand new launch, I concentrate.
This time round, the staff has shifted to Debian Bullseye as their base. Bullseye was solely just lately launched (July ninth, 2022), so it is pretty exceptional that the Elive staff was in a position to make the change so rapidly and seamlessly.
So far as what’s new within the beta (in addition to every little thing that comes together with Debian “Bullseye”), you’ll discover new wallpapers, a major efficiency increase in ext4 filesystems, higher energy administration, higher Ruby terminal integration, an improved Quantity gadget, Cinelerra-gg now out there within the 32-bit variations, and enchancment to the English language messages.
In fact, a lot of the enhancements come by means of Debian “Bullseye” which incorporates extra software program (over 11,294 new packages with 72% of all packages being up to date), driverless scanning and printing, management teams V2, persistent systemd journal, kernel help for exFAT, and improved guide web page translations.
Learn the total launch notes for 3.8.30 right here and obtain a duplicate of the beta right here.
