While the first focus of Bodhi Linux is creating a minimalisticĮnlightenment desktop, its second core idea is that user choice is Linux is running fewer services in the background than a stock Ubuntu Exactly why this is happening is uncertain, but the causeĬould be that E17 just uses much less resources than GNOME and that Bodhi With Bodhi Linux, GIMP started two times faster than on a standard Ubuntuġ0.10 machine. Measurements on two different but equally equipped machines: on the machine That even applications start up significantly faster than on plain UbuntuĪt TechRepublic, Jack Wallen experienced the same and did some Your author didn't undertake an extensive benchmark, but his gut feel says After this, you can choose which applications to add to the quick launcher at the bottom, but this can also be done later. The first time, you have to choose the profile and theme you want for your session. It's immediatelyĬlear that Bodhi Linux starts up fast, and the user's session starts upīlazingly fast after login as well. After the installation, a reboot is required. This will fire up Ubuntu's familiar Ubiquity To install, just click on the install icon in the quick launcher at theīottom of the screen. Starts up with your chosen profile and theme, so that you can give Bodhi The next step, users can choose a desktop theme. Moving the default shelf (actually, a panel) to the bottom for example. Something KDE-like, to try to make those coming from KDE feel at home, by Profile, or the Ecomorph if they want Compiz effects enabled (which may Most users will want to install the Desktop or Laptop For instance, Bare is forĪdvanced users that want to create their own customized EnlightenmentĬonfiguration. Information about the use cases it is meant for. If you click on a profile, Bodhi gives you some rant (For now)Īfter starting the live CD (which is only 380 MB), it gives you theĬhoice from six different profiles: Bare, Desktop, Ecomorph, Fancy, Laptop,Īnd Tablet/Netbook. I really need to find time to write my rant on this topic SIGNING PACKAGES DOES NOT MAKE THEM ANY MORE SECURE. For now, the main developer Jeff Hoogland doesn't seem to think this is a serious issue, as his reaction to a question from a user shows: This all sounds very professional for such a small distribution, but there's an important security issue in the way Bodhi Linux uses its repository: the packages in the Bodhi repository are not signed ( apt-get warns you about this when you're on the verge of installing such a package), so its users are vulnerable to a man in the middle attack. Because Enlightenment is still under heavy development, new Enlightenment updates are pushed out to the Bodhi repository at least once a week. For instance, Bodhi Linux 1.1.0 will have a 2.6.38 kernel and is expected toward the end of May. There will also be minor point releases roughly every three months with current software packages. So the 2.0.0 release will be based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and is aimedĪt mid-late 2012. Ubuntu LTS, which means that there will be a new main release every two The developers promise that Bodhi Linux will follow the release cycle of Release on March 25, is built on top of Ubuntu 10.04 with some packages backported from Ubuntu 10.10, such as the 2.6.35 kernel and the newer Ubiquity installer. Requirements are modest: a 300 MHz x86 processor with 128 MB RAM and 1.5 GBĭisk space should suffice. Bodhi Linux: enlightened Ubuntuīodhi Linux ("bodhi" is the Buddhist term for "enlightenment") claims toīe " a minimalistic, enlightened, Linux desktop". Take a look at both distributions and their contrasting approaches to bringĪn Enlightenment desktop to users. But in the lastįew months, two new Enlightenment-based Linux distributions have appeared: To pay to install it to a hard drive and it's already ratherĮnlightenment-based distribution, seems to have stalled. Last year), which is a Debian derivative with Enlightenment, but users have There are not that many mainstream Linux distributions that come with Enlightenment E17 as their default This article was contributed by Koen Vervloesem
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