Bodhi 6.0.0 Official Release

I considered that when I made the BL5.1 ISO and reconsidered on this release. Knowing what to include and what to remove on a Distro that is advertised as minimalistic is not necessarily easy. Moksha itself does not need much to run. 

While I can play with that myself and take it all down to the bare-bones, most of our users would not be satisfied with that. I remember one release where Jeff for whatever reason did not include xdg-user-dirs and many of our users completely freaked out. Our forums and IRC channel were overrun with users wondering why their home directories were empty. Such a simple thing and clearly in one sense xdg-user-dirs is pure fluff: completely unneeded. mkdir whatever you want, problem solved. But back then our standard advice was to install the package and run the xdg-user-dirs-update command. I mentioned this to Raster once when he was trying to tell me I did not need a plymouth theme nor a DM, such as lightdm and his response was that is why he does not like end-users. Now imagine if ditched the plymouth theme and the DM and Bodhi booted to a command prompt? Sure that would not really bother me, xorg is installed efl and moksha. No problem startx and  enlightenment_start and I would be ready to go. Even simpler with e24 as enlightenment_start starts it, tho admittedly in a wayland session.

Now unlike rasters comment about not liking end-users, I do like them. What would Bodhi be without end-users? Just my own customized Ubuntu install and little more. Before I got involved with Bodhi I was doing that only it was Debian with e17 compiled.

Now as to your suggestion to include file roller or even better the Thunar-archive-plugin and xarchiver for thunar support, it is true a large percentage of our users will end up installing one of those or something similar. It is also true that every single bit of that can be done via CLI. After all the tar command, gzip, and probably a few more is always installed, others can be installed. But it is also true this is not the most user friendly solution:




So yeah it is not a bad idea. Perhaps I will do that on the next batch of ISOs.

Agreed, and I would most certainly fail to disarm the bomb. No chance I’d remember. I have to look pretty much anything up that I haven’t used in the last 6 months.

...yeah, I too would have failed to disarm the bomb - alas, I would become smithereens

Good call on using --help however - love it! RTFM!

Minor issue following release of 6.0: on bodhilinux.com description of "latest version" should be changed from 5.1 to 6.0.

Nice job - thanks

Is this the appropriate thread for highlighting issues with the release, or should there be a dedicated thread for that?

My (minor) issue - Wireguard's wg-quick script will fail in setting up a connection by default because there is no resolvconf or openresolv installed. Modern distributions generally have this. Installing openresolv fixes the issue.

Thanks. I just did the standard sudo apt install wireguard

and openresolv was not installed. But adding the extra install flag as you've shown would fix it also.

Use of that flag is generally not mentioned in "how to install wireguard" instructions found on the net though, so users are likely to run into this problem.