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Sorry to have been absent for a while, lots of things happening in my life. I'm getting older, and I have to move to a new apartment, and, and, and … Meanwhile, Bodhi crawls right along. Now that Trixie is out, Robert is working on DeBodhi 8, or might just streamline things and make Bodhi a Debian- only-based distro. The jury is still out on that… Bodhi 8 is still being worked on for now, based on Ubuntu 24.04. We have a small team, right now really only two devs. Robert works on the ISOs and Stefan mostly polishes our themes and works with the Moksha desktop. We are really in need of more team members, specifically C and Python programmers willing to work with and learn EFL, which powers Moksha; more details are below. If you'd like to get involved, information can be found at the dev page, https://sourceforge.net/ projects/bodhidev/files/
In the meantime, my own process used to be to use Linux Mint for my work and Bodhi for fun, but since Mint 22 came out, I've had various problems with it, so I'm spending more and more time in Bodhi. I've been recording Full Circle Weekly News in Bodhi using pre-MuseScore Audacity 2.4.2 (current Audacity gives me a headache, and they break different things each update).
You really need to check out the new and updated themes, Stefan has been really shining lately. Both our lead devs work full time jobs doing things other than Linux, so all the beauty of Bodhi comes from a labor of love. While donations are up a little over the past couple years, they are not yet sufficient for anyone to work full time on the distro. Donations can be sent to @rbtylee on PayPal or Bodhi Linus on Patreon.
We've added a few more languages to Bodhi over the past year. We also have our forum and Discord channel, which are handled well but we won't say no to help.
We continue to work closely with Escuelas Linux, one of the leading distros for education in the Spanish language, which is based on Bodhi. Their latest version is 8.12.
There is a Bodhi Wiki at https://www.bodhilinux.com/w/wiki/. Our blog can be found at https: www.bodhilinux.com/blog/. We still have a forum at LinuxQuestions.org, but our main forum is https: bodhilinux.boards.net/, but users will get faster responses on our Discord channel.
You may be wondering why there are no working betas of Bodhi 8 yet, based on either Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 13. The simple answer is, there are still problems getting GTK4 to work with EFL, and we haven't gotten comfortable with Wayland yet.
We hope to have news soon on Bodhi 8 or DeBodhi 8. In the meantime, the adventurous can use a script Robert has written to compile Moksha on Debian Trixie, found at our forum under “Moksha on Debian Trixie”. There is a script for installing it on Ubuntu 24.04, but I'm not finding the location right now. There is a problem in that using these scripts will not include installing Terminology, the EFL terminal program, due to a change in dependencies messing up the installation.
Current official versions are Bodhi 7.0.0 (64-bit), available with Standard, HWE, S76 and AppPack versions, and 5.1.0 Legacy (32-bit). DeBodhi 7.0. is at beta3 status but runs just fine on my computers (which are all Lenovos). There is also a 32-bit Legacy beta of 6.0, which many users are doing fine with.
With a rather small team, we are always looking for help: • C programmers familiar with or willing to learn EFL. • Python programmers who are also familiar with or willing to learn EFL. • Translators. • Documentation writers. • Graphic artists. • Gtk and edc theme developers. • Web developers. • Donations. Even a small donation helps tremendously.