I respectfully prefer Elive as a vehicle to show Enlightenment to a person who may or may not be a Linux newbie. The stable release is a bit old (lenny) but yo

I respectfully prefer Elive as a vehicle to show Enlightenment to a person who may or may not be a Linux newbie. The stable release is a bit old (lenny) but you don't have to use the stable release, and in fact if you don't, you are not harassed by the installer module to pay $5 or $15. The hard part these days isn't compiling, it's showing folks in a way that convinced them they should install, without leaving them in the dark about what that means, and not taking their $5. It's very easy to just take the $5 and do it for them, if they can stand to use Firefox 3.0.6. All of this is not germane to E18, since even current developer releases of Elive are still on E17.