The way that drives appear on the desktop is neat. However one problem would be that if you had several drives, the desktop would become quite crowded.

By default the file manager uses obscenely huge icons.

Unlike most distros Elive bundles IceWeasel, seemingly a clone of Firefox.

As always there are next to no screensavers installed.

Now this surprised me. This is the first time I have seen a proper emulator for traditional PC applications installed, even if it's just for DOS.

And finally, a screenshot of the terminal.