Bodhi 6.0 Release Candidate :D

It seems that "thunar-volman" package is missed in the BL60-RC distribution, because Thunar menu item doesn't work:

Edit - Preferences...-[Advanced]-_Configure_

Failed to display the volume management settings.
Failed to execute child process "thunar-volman" (No such file or directory)

The command "apt install thunar-volume" solves this issue.

Glad ya manged to get it installed even tho it has a weird grub/boot issue.

Ok on default firewall ubuntu and bodhi use iptables. Ufw is a program for managing the iptables firewall more easily. Install it if you are more comfortable using it. Bodhi does not preinstall alot of GUI tools for basic things one can do with cli tools or editing config files.

EDIT: for the record here ufw is a cli tool while gufw is the GUI wrapper for it. Both of these simply working with iptables altho you are limited some in what you can do.

Yeah Bodhi does not use much memory. You can actually even make that number smaller by unloading some of the modules. 

As to the booting issue perhaps you should try booting into LXLE if it is still in charge of booting as you say and run sudo update-grub. If that does not resolve the issue post another post in support about the problem. Sounds like something is wrong with your grub config or something.

Perhaps a middle ground can be found? ufw is strictly a cli app, whereas gufw serves as its graphical UI. But ufw is so easy and simple to operate in the terminal, that in my opinion gufw is entirely superfluous. Mint ships with gufw by default, but then that's a "bells and whistles" distro....

Having ufw in the default Bodhi installation would be good for security, I think. So personally I'd welcome that, provided that the iso size wouldn't become too big, of course.

By the way: you've made somebody on the Mint forum very happy with your patched Leafpad:
forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2009481#p2009481

Well, of course you don't need a firewall in your OS when connected to your own network, if the router of your network already has its own active firewall. One blockade suffices.

But in almost all other situations you do. Especially public WiFi networks are risky. So the use case for an active firewall is pretty widespread.

In those cases Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw) offers an extremely simple solution:
sudo ufw enable

ufw has a sensible set of default settings (profile), which are fine for the vast majority of home users. There are smart exceptions in the default ufw settings (rules), which should ensure that the firewall is never in the way of normal average use. For example, with the default profile the use of Samba should be no problem. Also downloading torrents (fetch) should be possible; but seeding torrents (serve), might require a temporal disabling of ufw:
sudo ufw disable

Of course one can install ufw after installation of Bodhi, but it would underline its importance if it would be present by default. And it's less than 1 MB (846 kB) anyway, so it doesn't weigh Bodhi down....

Nice! Some more nifty ufw commands:

Completely disable its useless spammy log (nobody ever reads that anyway):
sudo ufw logging off

Check whether the firewall is active or inactive:
sudo ufw status

.... and my personal favourite, check what it does when active with more details:
sudo ufw status verbose

Speaking of lightness: does Bodhi really need build-essential tools: gcc compiler etc?

I would like it added there and perhaps add some stuff to the wiki about security. See also my recent post here.