I have been impressed with Elive and e17 for quite a while...
Yesterday I did two things:
1. I re-installed Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
2. I installed a dual boot to Elive Gem 1.0
Both installs went without event, I was most impressed with how Elive set up a custom grub menu, with the 3 options:
1. Elive Gem 1.0
2. Windows XP Media Center Edition
3. Memory Diagnostic test
I was also impressed upon first booting into Elive how it prompted for a tweak to finalize the install.
Elive is simply the most interesting of all Linux distros. e17 is the most beautiful DE. I am very, very impressed.
As a developer of my own OS, Oz Enterprise, it says a lot that I choose to use Elive.
I would like to eventually build Linux Nirvana(another distro I built) with an e17 desktop.
I would like to see a e17 distro that utilizes Conary, and an rpath base.
I will settle for a Debian base for now and become more familiar with the Elive OS.
Again, to the Devs an overall awesome job!