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Jeff Hoogland announces he'll step down as leader of Bodhi Linux

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Sense of foreboding for the distro (Score: 1)

by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-09-14 22:37 (#2SDE)

From the user viewpoint this really sucks, though we can all understand Jeff's priorities.

Re: Sense of foreboding for the distro (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-15 09:00 (#2SDQ)

There is potentially hope, but I dunno. Bodhi had a pretty lively and vigorous community, and the distro's goals were pretty narrow and focused - provide E17 (and maybe now E18?) on a Ubuntu base. That means a bit more than just compiling and packaging, but there's at least some hope a dedicated general would like to step up and become admiral, or equivalent.

Re: Sense of foreboding for the distro (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-15 11:38 (#2SDV)

So from an outsider's naive point of view, what's so special about Bodhi compared to say, Kubuntu? Or just using Wheezy/Jessie and installing E17? I mean, for it to work with no setup right out of the box is neat and all, but is that alone worth maintaining a whole separate distro?

Re: Sense of foreboding for the distro (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-15 18:08 (#2SEE)

"what's so special about Bodhi compared to say, Kubuntu?"

First, I find Kubuntu buggy and bloated. The same goes for Gnome and it's GVFS crap and other bits.

Bodhi ran great on the slow system I tested it on.

The only failure IMO which kept me from using Bodhi was the lack of stunning and bug free themes. As is the case with several window managers, a lot or all of the pre-installed themes suck and suck hard. There were a few minor bugs with Bodhi which also steered me away.

All a person really needs to do is to install Debian minimal and build up from there.

TLDR; another promising, unique and lightweight distro falls.

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2014-10-02 19:10 Interesting +1 kerrany@pipedot.org

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