Bodhi 7.0.0 Official Release

The hwe one was the one I was waiting for.  Got it and will begin "playing with it" shortly before installing.  Many thanks!

1.3GB? Seems a lot bigger than Bodhi 6's 832MiB. I'm kinda wondering what contributes to the much larger size?

I gave it a quick test and looks great, as always excellent work ylee! But as always, I've got comments and questions!

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What's the deal with the s76 6.4 kernel version? Will that be a non-updating kernel, or will bodhi keep providing security updates thru bodhi repo?

Are there any major features that average user might miss, compared with relying on ubuntu's hwe? What is the motivation for offering this kernel?

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I first tested in Virtualbox with 1GB memory, and chromium was *extremely* slow to load, after waiting more than 5 minutes I gave up staring at empty window, rebooted and tried again with 1.5GB and chromium worked fine in live. I'm guessing this may be related to why a low memory installer is coming?

Then for some weird reason, it took well over half an hour to install... I seem to recall bodhi normally takes about ten minutes. I dunno if it was just freak occurrence or what, is that just me?

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As to the pure enlightenment version of bodhi, are you expecting it to support wayland sessions from login manager? If not,that would be cool to play with if login manager can offer X11 and Wayland sessions.

Will it use e 25.3 from ubuntu repo, or will you be building us 25.4 (or whatever's current)?

Thank-you very much indeed for your great work. It works perfectly.

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You will be able to update the s76 kernel, most likely. I will be following the updates in System76's PopOS repo. There have been 2 already since i got the idea of including this kernel. BTW the packages for this kernel are in the BL7 testing repo. I would expect the s76 kernel to have all the features of the HWE kernel plus any new features found in the newer kernel. It may not be as well tested as Ubuntu probably has more resources and users than PopOS.

The motivation was to meet the needs of a particular user in our Discord channel actually. They had a new rather powerful laptop with hardware not supported by the HWE kernel in Jammy's repo. But the s76 kernel worked for them. Bleeding edge hardware needs a bleeding edge kernel. Bodhi is not just for old machines.  I hope to attract more of the kind of user who has more powerful newer machines but happens to either like enlightenment or wants the speed and low memory usage Bodhi offers.


EFL is from  the enlightenment git EFL repo in BL7 not an official release. I would prefer it to be from a EFL 1.26 release but have no idea when that will be released. EFL 1.26 has some issues fixed and raster's new flat theme which I want. So I will be using enlightenment also from e-git not from Ubuntu's repo nor any official release.  For EFL the actual git commit used is identified in the changelog present in the deb file. I will do the same for e of course.

My last ISO I offered with enlightenment on it did support both wayland and X11 sessions. But I am undecided at the moment about continuing this tradition for two reasons:

• Lightdm does not support wayland sessions at all. So to have wayland sessions show by default I would have to use a DM like gdm
• Raster figured out in e-devel mailing list that if you have Nvidia cards and use Nvidia drivers you will have problems with wayland  Raster blames Nvidia so he is not going to 'fix' it on the e side of things.

Considering this what do you think about it? Wayland support in e or not? If yes then lightdm and leave it to the user to install gdm or gdm by default on the e ISO?

Seem like it does now. It did not display the e Wayland desktop file the last time I played with it, but that was maybe 2 years ago or so.

Great news is great news.
Thanks for the work!