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elive desktop (oh and please update your bookmarks or feeds)

Since July of 2003, Jeff Myers has graciously allowed my blog to live on his web server at the bakadigital.com domain.

Very early last month, he informed me that the DNS entry for bakadigital will expire and he wasn't renewing it, instead he was going to move everything over to his other domain, opencombat.net, a much cooler domain don't you think?

With plenty of warning I then proceeded to totally forget to inform anyone that reads this blog about the change and as a result last week it briefly disappeared. Jeff saved my bacon by renewing the DNS and thereby giving me an opportunity to inform you properly of these changes.

So, if you are reading this via the bakadigital domain, please change it to point to bzgirl.opencombat.net or alternatively you can use bzgirl.org, a domain which was parked for a long time, but was snatched up and delivered to me as Christmas gift as soon as it became available by a very good friend.

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Elive is a Debian derivative powered by the e17 desktop.

Elive is a complete operating system for your computer. It's the perfect choice for replacing your proprietary, high-cost system. It is built on top of Debian GNU/Linux and customized to meet your needs for a complete operating system while still offering the user eye-candy with minimal hardware requirements. Turn your old computer into a high-powered work-station again, with an Interface that dazzles everybody that sees it. This is Elive's goal.

They seem to be meeting the goal from what I can tell, even with Xorg's composite extensions enabled, this desktop is fast and light, and of course really pretty. One thing I didn't like was the ugly and unintuitive elpanel configuration tool.

If e17 were to get into Debian officially, I would give it a longer trial as my main desktop, but I don't think that will happen anytime soon. I installed the elive CD to an empty partition, as you can be sure running a composite manager off a live CD will bring the system to a crawl. :-)

PS: Jeff, thank you once again!