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... which is not really that interesting, but I thought I would share anyway.

I was lured in by the eye candy on their webite (as you are), and paid for a download - begun the install. After a little trial and error with the graphics options, I had it up and running and was very excited. what a fantastic looking distro!

I then begun to try and access the internet, setup my network config (... love how Mint just 'makes it work') etc etc, many frustrated hours later (and forum posting/google searching) and I put it in the 'too hard' basket and reinstalled Mint.

It was like 'coming home' Anyone else use elive?

Those post pretty much echo my experience also except that when I paid the $5 donation required to download my browser crashed and I was not able to get what I paid for. After some emails and some post on their forum I finally got an invitation to download it. Once I got it and tried it I found it just was not as user friendly as Mint or Mepis.

ed@Mint wrote:

donec wrote:paid the $5 donation required to download

Maybe that was some time ago but i didnt see anything like that..

Ordered on May 5, 2008 finally downloaded May 21, 2008.

I couldn't download without doing a donation either...

ed@Mint wrote:Click on the download link here and see : http://www.elivecd.org/Download/download

What the! ... that's not the page I saw.........

edit: just tried to find that same link on their website and couldn't get to it. Not that I mind paying $5 for something, but a little annoyed that I only used it for a couple of hours and it didn't work out (couldn't connect it to the internet). Oh well.

ed@Mint wrote:Click on the download link here and see : http://www.elivecd.org/Download/download

Ed where and how did you find that link?

http://www.elivecd.org/Download/Stable
That link is what I get when I pressed on download, where they won't let you download unless you "donate". That is why I haven't used yet, I don't mind paying for software, but claiming it to be free (as in beer and speech) software (ref Distrowatch, listed as Price: Free), but corner you with a "donation".
Also, on the link I provided it say:

Elive is free and made with pleasure for your pleasure, but free does not mean "no cost" . I spend all my time developing Elive. It is my choice. Your choice is whether or not downloading Elive is worth a donation. I have not put a minimum donation, because I realize that many of you are students with very limited resources. I thank You for showing interest in Elive, and hope to see you in #elive on IRC!

But clearly the minimum "donation" is $5. They should be more clear with these things. And the link ed found is probably not meant for the public, I couldn't find it anywhere on the site. Until they are more honest I will stay away from em.

Yeah, I can to, but the rest of the site does not link to that page, so it is not publicly available...

It's just that the stable version needs a donation, while the unstable ones are free. It's stated somewhere in the site.
I used to have a soft spot for Elive (I love E17), though Mint is muuuuuch more user-friendly and complete.

I hover over the Download eLive button, and have circled the page it links to, this, which forces a "donation" before I can download....

When I compare the links being discussed here I see 2 different links they are...
http://www.elivecd.org/Download/Stable
http://www.elivecd.org/Download/download
They are different and I can not find any path to the Download/download page from the Elive home page.

ed@Mint wrote:Those links both allow me to download without donation.
What about you ?

The Stable requires a donation. I'm in the US.

My wife just pointed out to me that a donation to download is not a donation it is a charge since you can't download it without a donation. From what I have seen here most people are finding that Elive is requiring a charge for their distro.

ed@Mint wrote:She does have a point.

I posted a message on their forum to get more information. Here is the link : http://forum.elivecd.org/read.php?8,1937

I made a post on that forum some time ago and never received an answer. There doesn't seem to be alot of activity on there.

Seems like your post got deleted ed?

Seems like I got my answer as well, they aren't completely open about things, so I don't want anything to do with them. And I dislike how they modded your post, read it through, did not see a single reason for modding it, only if they have something to hide

ed@Mint wrote:

MagnusB wrote:Seems like your post got deleted ed?

Well, it looks like they deleted it indeed. No messages, nothing.
Well...
This is over with eLive for me.
I want nothing to do with such a bad behaving community. And i certainly don't want to use their stuff.
I am more than glad that i didn't have to donate to get their thing.

I feel violated