"The first full version of Elive, 1.0, was released at the
beginning of July this year to a fair amount of acclaim. It has
been touted as one of the most visually appealing distributions,
but how does it stake up against the out-of-the-box review style of
Shift+Backspace? I have been quite busy with work over the last
week and have kept Elive installed on my desktop computer, making
it my primary operating system. That being said, I found myself
often booting into a live CD version of Linux Mint 3.0 as I
generally did not like Elive 1.0. Of course, I do want to give
Elive a fair review..."