It seems that almost all distros have now abandoned Enlightenment. I came back here, thinking, "It might be best to pay a few bucks, and go back to Elive."
Unfortunately, the forum appears to be all but abandoned. I downloaded and installed Zeitgeist. The repositories don't work, so I can't add software, or update anything. Searching the forums gives me a couple alternative repository addresses, that don't work either. Zeitgeist is dead.
The IRC channel is dead. Oh, it's still there, but in two days time, I saw two people log in, ask a question, get no reply, and they disappeared again.
The posts inquiring about the paid version of Topaz seem to get little if any response. All meaningful posts are more than a year old, it looks.
I guess Elive has died.
That's a shame. It's a beautiful operating system.