i found this awesome version of Linux called Bodhi Linux. Man i love it, so crazy fast and minimal. It's like they read my mind and created a Linux distro.

I just wanted to geek with you about my new find. :)
-Denny
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Re: Geeking out
By: Hylian to All on Wed Aug 12 2015 11:15 am

I just wanted to geek with you about my new find. :)

Thanks for the pointer! My favorite Linux box is an old IBM Thinkpad T42 -- great keyboard and screen, but with a 1.7Ghz single core processor that doesn't report PAE (but does support it) and 2 GB of RAM I like being able to pare down the install to use lighter apps and cut things I don't need out.

Sounds like Bodhi gives you Enlightenment (which I used to love) and a clean slate - and supports non-PAE processors.

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Re: Geeking out
By: Hylian to All on Wed Aug 12 2015 11:15 am

i found this awesome version of Linux called Bodhi Linux. Man i love it, so crazy fast and minimal. It's like they read my mind and created a Linux distro.

I just wanted to geek with you about my new find. :)
-Denny

so what do you find so great about it? i looked on their website but couldnt find anything much. just them talking about how lean it is. i'm low on time so i have to wait until weekends to check out stuff like this.

i was using manjaro linux and that's good for running on systems with low resources. if you havent checked that out, i suggest it.
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Re: Geeking out
By: Hylian to All on Wed Aug 12 2015 11:15:34

i found this awesome version of Linux called Bodhi Linux. Man i love it, so crazy fast and minimal. It's like they read my mind and created a Linux distro.

Looks interesting, but their site doesn't seem to have much info on it. It looks like Bodhi uses the Englightenment desktop environment - I tried Englightenment a long time ago and liked it but never used it much.

Nightfox

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Re: Geeking out
By: Poindexter Fortran to Hylian on Wed Aug 12 2015 12:17 pm

Re: Geeking out
By: Hylian to All on Wed Aug 12 2015 11:15 am

I just wanted to geek with you about my new find. :)

Thanks for the pointer! My favorite Linux box is an old IBM Thinkpad T42 -- great keyboard and screen, but with a 1.7Ghz single core processor that does

n't

report PAE (but does support it) and 2 GB of RAM I like being able to pare d

own

the install to use lighter apps and cut things I don't need out.

Sounds like Bodhi gives you Enlightenment (which I used to love) and a clean slate - and supports non-PAE processors.

It's the lightest distro i have seen which still gives you the ubuntu repos. Which is nice for "install it and forget about it" functionality. (Mostly)...

-Denny
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Re: Geeking out
By: Mro to Hylian on Wed Aug 12 2015 04:31 pm

Re: Geeking out
By: Hylian to All on Wed Aug 12 2015 11:15 am

i found this awesome version of Linux called Bodhi Linux. Man i love it,

so

crazy fast and minimal. It's like they read my mind and created a Linux distro.

I just wanted to geek with you about my new find. :)
-Denny

so what do you find so great about it? i looked on their website but couldnt find anything much. just them talking about how lean it is. i'm low on time

so

i have to wait until weekends to check out stuff like this.

i was using manjaro linux and that's good for running on systems with low resources. if you havent checked that out, i suggest it.

The fact that it's super lean and yet still has full ubuntu repo functionality.

There are versions of Puppy Linux that can use some ubuntu debs, but bodhi is boasting the use of all of the ubuntu repo goodness.

-Denny
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Re: Geeking out
By: Nightfox to Hylian on Wed Aug 12 2015 03:49 pm

Re: Geeking out
By: Hylian to All on Wed Aug 12 2015 11:15:34

i found this awesome version of Linux called Bodhi Linux. Man i love it, so crazy fast and minimal. It's like they read my mind and created a Linux distro.

Looks interesting, but their site doesn't seem to have much info on it. It looks like Bodhi uses the Englightenment desktop environment - I tried Englightenment a long time ago and liked it but never used it much.

yeah and the one i recommended had very little info as well.
seems like the norm.
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Re: Geeking out
By: Hylian to Poindexter Fortran on Wed Aug 12 2015 04:51 pm

It's the lightest distro i have seen which still gives you the ubuntu repos. Which is nice for "install it and forget about it" functionality. (Mostly)...

There are a couple of light ones out there I've had good luck with, and which use the standard repos.

Crunchbang is now dead, held out the longest supporting non-PAE processors.

LXLE and Lubuntu are similar in style, Lubuntu takes it a step further and promotes lighter apps, like Sylpheed instead of Thunderbird, and has it's own lightweight catalog.

All use LXDE, a lightweight manager that looks like old-school Ubuntu to me.

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Re: Geeking out
By: Poindexter Fortran to Hylian on Fri Aug 14 2015 09:20 am

Re: Geeking out
By: Hylian to Poindexter Fortran on Wed Aug 12 2015 04:51 pm

It's the lightest distro i have seen which still gives you the ubuntu repos. Which is nice for "install it and forget about it" functionality (Mostly)...

There are a couple of light ones out there I've had good luck with, and whic use the standard repos.

Crunchbang is now dead, held out the longest supporting non-PAE processors.

LXLE and Lubuntu are similar in style, Lubuntu takes it a step further and promotes lighter apps, like Sylpheed instead of Thunderbird, and has it's ow lightweight catalog.

All use LXDE, a lightweight manager that looks like old-school Ubuntu to me.

Ohh man, I miss crunchbang. I ran that strictly for years, it was so crazy simple and just worked so well. I miss it.

-Denny
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