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Post by ylee on May 11, 2021 19:33:15 GMT
While we have had a few issues with our website lately and I have not made an official announcement there yet, the Bodhi Team is pleased to announce our much anticipated release of Bodhi Linux 6.0, derived from Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa) base. This release is 64 bit only and a 32 bit based on Debian is planned in the near future. Yesterday, I uploaded 3 ISOs to SourceForge and the website 9to5linux.com noticed the uploads and announced our new release. This has been posted on twitter, Facebook and probably elsewhere in the internet. So I am announcing the release here mostly to avoid questions that already have arisen on Discord. Now that the website is back online I am in the process of writing up an official release announcement. Official Release announcement ChangelogForum users following or testing this release are aware of the changes and improvements we have made. But just to list a few: Our Arc-Green theme has had a major revamp now featuring an animated background, updated splash screen and numerous tweaks. The BL6 login screen now features the slick greeter with transparent background and naturally a new background. There also is a new plymouth theme. The Moksha desktop environment has had numerous improvements and a few new features added. In addition to all this the Bodhi Team has tried to improve support for non-english languages. None of this would have been possible with the support of the Bodhi community and volunteer work of our small group of translators. As always much thanks to Štefan Uram for his work on both the code, themes and icons, Bodhi would not be the same without his creative input. Also thanks to our sys-adm, Jason 'Tristam' Thomas, for migrating our web site and repos to new servers recently and to the new members of our web-dev team (Gavin 'fidoedidoe' Fowler, Jose 'codernic' Manimala, and ErwanGleo) for all the recent work on the website. A special thanks goes out to Carsten 'Raster' Haitzler for his consultation and advice to both Štefan and I. The latest ISOs can be downloaded at sourceforge.net/projects/bodhilinux/files/6.0.0/A pure enlightenment release is planned and will be released in the new few days. Sorry about that. This announcement is slightly premature as I intended to do it after the creation of the 'pure e' ISO. Enjoy  |
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Post by thewaiter on May 11, 2021 20:03:59 GMT
A release full of nice new features and improvements. We spent interesting times on this project. I personally had fun coding, learning new stuff although night sessions were not easy sometimes. Working as developer with main dev Robert Wiley was a pleasure for me. He gave me as much freedom as I needed for my ideas and always gave an helping hand when things did not go smoothly. Without him, this release would never happen. I believe we created an interesting distribution not only for old computers and "old" loyal community members Enjoy new Bodhi Štefan |
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Post by kiezel on May 11, 2021 22:26:20 GMT
Thanks for all the hard work, guys! With the excellent Ubuntu 20.04 code base of Bodhi 6 (you can't get any better code base than that), Bodhi is alive and kicking, ready for the future. The best minimalist distro that I've encountered so far, since the demise of LXDE-based Lubuntu. I'll spend the next couple of days testing and spreading the word. |
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Post by majpooper on May 11, 2021 23:10:58 GMT
Definitely worth the wait - THX much - great work
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Post by cooler on May 12, 2021 4:27:44 GMT
Congratulations and many thanks for the hard work you are putting into this!
Apparently word of this came out.. Bodhi has gone up ~10 places in distrowatch ranking.. and the announcement has not been made yet on their website.
Looking forward to the official announcement on (on Bodhilinux.com and distrowatch). Bodhi is a top 30 distro for sure.
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Post by Hippytaff on May 12, 2021 6:35:18 GMT
Congratulations and thanks to the whole team, but especially the devs for this groundbreaking release. I for one am proud to be a member of this community, and even more so with such a polished and impressive release. Thanks for the dedication and hard work!
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Post by kiezel on May 12, 2021 10:44:45 GMT
A quick question: in a fully updated VM with Bodhi 6 (originally installed as RC iso, so not the iso of the final release), I'm unable to launch Leafpad with root permissions by using either admin:// or pkexec. Of course I don't want to use sudo, because that would mess up permissions in my /home. Could this perhaps be fixed? I have no preference for either admin:// or pkexec; both options are equally fine to me.
Edit: same problem in a clean fresh installation with the final release iso.
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Post by thewaiter on May 12, 2021 14:24:12 GMT
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Post by ylee on May 12, 2021 14:51:53 GMT
That must be automated. Torrents showed up as soon as I uploaded them to Sourceforge (thanks Tristam). For the record, we now have an Official release announcement. If you can spare the bandwith please seed the torrents. Thanks |
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Post by ylee on May 12, 2021 19:05:36 GMT
A quick question: in a fully updated VM with Bodhi 6 (originally installed as RC iso, so not the iso of the final release), I'm unable to launch Leafpad with root permissions by using either admin:// or pkexec. Of course I don't want to use sudo, because that would mess up permissions in my /home. Could this perhaps be fixed? I have no preference for either admin:// or pkexec; both options are equally fine to me.
Edit: same problem in a clean fresh installation with the final release iso.
The admin thing has never worked with leafpad as far as I know. That would probably take a code change to support the gvfs admin stuff. Not something I have time for now. I can look into creating a policy kit file for it and see if I can get that to work. EDIT: See if this works for you. Create a file org.leafpad.root.policy place it in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/File contents: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC
"-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd">
<policyconfig>
<vendor>Tarot Freeshell</vendor>
<vendor_url>http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/</vendor_url>
<action id="org.leafpad.root">
<description>Run Leafpad with elevated privileges</description>
<message>Please enter your password to run Leafpad as root</message>
<icon_name>leafpad</icon_name>
<defaults>
<allow_any>no</allow_any>
<allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
</defaults>
<annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/bin/leafpad</annotate>
<annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
</action>
</policyconfig>Now you should be able to use pkexec leafpad or pkexec leafpad /path/to/fileNote: leafpad needs the full path, it is not going to use $PWD If this policy kit file is sufficient and meets your needs I can add it to the leafpad deb file. |
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Post by kiezel on May 12, 2021 19:53:33 GMT
If this policy kit file is sufficient and meets your needs I can add it to the leafpad deb file. Just tested it, and it works fine! It would be great if this would be added to the leafpad .deb file, because that would make it easy to avoid graphical abuse of sudo.... |
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Post by ylee on May 12, 2021 20:51:23 GMT
...Just tested it, and it works fine! It would be great if this would be added to the leafpad .deb file, because that would make it easy to avoid graphical abuse of sudo.... Done  |
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Post by kiezel on May 12, 2021 21:01:23 GMT
...Just tested it, and it works fine! It would be great if this would be added to the leafpad .deb file, because that would make it easy to avoid graphical abuse of sudo.... Done Great! Thanks. |
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Post by R0bur on May 13, 2021 7:10:50 GMT
I congratulate the Bodhi Linux Team to Bodhi 6.0 release too! I played with it shortly and it looks excellent. Thank you for the big work! But there is an inaccuracy in the system requirements description. BL 6.0 requires 768 Mb RAM at least. On a 512 Mb RAM PC it doesn't boots up live and doesn't starts installation: |
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Post by kiezel on May 13, 2021 8:34:30 GMT
Bodhi 6 is a real pleasure to work with! A tip for those who wish to install extra software in it: use the switch "--no-install-recommends". This helps to keep Bodhi mean and lean, by reducing the non-essential crud you pull when installing things.
For example, if you want to install archive manager file-roller without non-essential extras:
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends file-roller
By the way: perhaps it's an idea to add file-roller to future Bodhi versions? Unpacking compressed files is something that's more or less part of everyday computing....
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