Elive is a Debian based linux distro, so all of you Ubuntu fan boys its the same basic distro with noticable enhancements and tweaks to the UI. Some major points to point out here is that the desktop manager is leveraging Enlightment which is Gtk based and very quick, light on resources, and customizable till no end. The menu system is left and right mouse click driven similar to that of fluxbox. The Application Dock is an actual portion of the Enlightment Desktop Manager.
I have been running Elive in a VMWare environment for 2 weeks now and am very pleased with how it is working and how quick and easy things were to pick up with the distribution. The great thing is everything that you WANT installed is installed from the get go (mp3, flash, dvd, etc) This is definitely more of a desktop driven distribution, but to throw it through the rings I went through some quick tests to make sure nothing was outa the ordinary with the build. To do this I planned on setting up a mail server with virtual hosts, a LAMP environment and install Roundcube, vtiger CRM, and of course Drupal 6.10. After that I made sure that I could properly backup the machine leveraging BackupPC.
Today is a huge day in the world of web development and database development as Oracle has acquired Sun Microsystems. The reason that this is such a huge deal is that Sun holds a great deal of high value cards when it comes to what is being leveraged on the web today such as MySQL and Java are the largest developments coming out of the Sun house. Right behind those two technologies is the Microsoft Office alternative that I personally enjoy using and has became a standard for most Linux users and that is OpenOffice, and the enterprise datacenter server operating system that put Sun Microsystems on the map Solaris. There are also some very influential research coming out of Sun Microsystems and the most widely known and adopted technology is their ZFS file system that FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, and Apple are leveraging as a 
