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Bodhi Corner for April 2025
Work proceeds apace with development for Bodhi 8, and work with Trixie is still running ahead of work with Numbat. Stefan has completed the slideshow which will run during installation. We have a new animated wallpaper called MariaD (see photo).
I think I answered the questions about why I use Bodhi in the last article. Why should you use Bodhi?
People talk about light or heavy desktops. In my experience, Bodhi is almost as light as a distro using only a primitive window manager. At boot time, my installation of Bodhi 7 64-bit AppPack is using only 402 MiB of RAM (Bodhi 6 used 320 MiB for me at boot), and I know more experienced users who have dropped gadgets to where their desktop loads up at 100 MB. As I type this, I have Pluma, Terminology, chromium, and Discord open, and am using 1,249 MiB as reported by neofetch. This means that an old chromebook or laptop which used to struggle on Windows 10 will run Bodhi as if it were a new machine. That's definitely one way we have marketed Bodhi, to give life to old machines, but also think how much more headroom you'll have on a newer machine.
At this time, there is no work on implementing wayland in Bodhi. It shouldn't be *that* hard to do, since Moksha is based on enlightenment and that desktop has been using wayland for a while now, but some of the stability gains Moksha made over e17 do tend to get in the way of some upgrades.
I suppose I should talk about Bodhi forums. For several years we had our own, and then moved the forum over to LinuxQuestions.org. A couple years ago we set up our own forum again, which is found at https://bodhilinux.boards.net. We are getting a few new forum members every day. The forum is a great place to keep up on new things and fixes, and our Discord channel is also great for that. As communities go, the Bodhi community is one of the friendliest I've come across.
If you're interested in keeping up on the yet-to-be-released versions of Bodhi, you'll want to visit the BodhiDev page at Sourceforge. Currently featured is DeBodhi 7 64-bit, now in Beta3. https://sourceforge.net/projects/bodhidev
Of course, we are always looking for sponsors. We have a new Patreon page at https://patreon.com/bodhilinux, where Robert Wiley will reward your attention with frequent newsletters detailing what is new in Bodhi. We would also appreciate it if you would regularly visit the Bodhi Linux page on Distrowatch; as I type this, our current ranking is #58, and we're used to being at least in the top 50.
If you have any questions on this article, write to me at moss@bodhilinux.com. For questions on Bodhi itself, please join us at the forum or join the Discord chat, https://discord.com/invite/pvB7MSf