[eduardo]

eduardo, on 05 June 2011 - 04:07 AM, said:

Bodhi is a great Distro. It is light weight, easy to use, efficient and very, very beautiful, pleasant for the eyes. I would like to congratulate all of you guys. Thanks for such a great job!!! I'm sure I'll be using Bodhi for a long, long time because I love Enlightenment and it is really in wonderful shape in Bodhi 1.1.0. Awesome!!!!!

UPDATE. a great distro indeed, but maybe it would be interesting to implement better printing support and make the system more easily compatible with virtual machines (I tried hard to install vmwareplayer but I couldn't. Virtualbox was installed, but no network connection available for Windows XP as guest OS, due to a driver malfunction I couldn't solve).

[Jeff]

Printing can be worked on.

VMWare however is very, very much closed source and we can't make this software perform any better than we can make Adobe flash consume less CPU.

I've used virtual box on Bodhi with every type of Windows out there - never had a networking issue with them.

At any rate you need to create support threads for your issues so we can try to help at the very least I see you only have three posts, two of which are in this thread!

~Jeff

[Rudi_Bodhi]

An acquaintance of mine I know via Elive, another Enlightenment distro, hinted me on Bodhilinux. Since I've this Acer Aspire One to test distro's with, I gave it a try, I'm using it for about a week or two, and must say that I'm impressed by the speed of this graphically wonderful desktop-environment. Before this distro I've tried MeeGo (moblin), Joli OS and other "tabbed" distro's, none did it for me because I like eyecandy ... Elive didn't work for me either, I can't put my finger on 'what?' or 'why?' it didn't... it just didn't.

The combination of speed and eyecandy made me decide that Bodhilinux will stay on my netbook. The clean, fast install, the repositories from both Bodhi and Ubuntu, ease of use, friendly forums, the "WOW"-factor after each boot (app.20 sec.) only points out I've made the right decision: Bodhi works for me!
Ruud

[topouaibe]

I was just about to give away my asus eeepc 900 when Bodhi saved me 250€ for a new Netbook !

Then I saved another 300€ of geek gift to my mother, by installing it on her very old Pentium III (256 MO of RAM) she kept in her holidays house !
I put some french-speaking addons (for Libre Office) and some classic programs (shotwell...) with my 3G phone, so she now can read USB keys, read the pictures of her camera, and she is thinking about investing in a 3G key to access internet...
I bet she will soon ask me to install Linux in place of her Windows XP at home : a 5 years lobbying close to its conclusion !

Big thx to Bodhi/team, excellent job, fantastic system,
I'll just wait for the "ubuntu 11.10" version to install it on my main computer : E17 ruleZ !


(ok, a few bugs remains... but it's so FAST !!!)

[Jeff]

Thanks for the kind words topouaibe! Just as a heads up though, the 2.0.0 version of Bodhi will be based on Ubuntu 12.04 (their next LTS). So it would be worth it to go ahead and just install 1.1.0 (or wait till the start of next month for 1.2.0).

~Jeff

[Tristam]

Okay...three lines...here we go. Or at least, here we try:

I've always been a minimal desktop kind of guy that spends more time in a terminal than anything. Gnome, KDE, even XFCE and LXDE are overkill for me. I find E17 much more suitable, pretty, and moldable than other WM's I've tried. Bodhi has the easiest, most up to date, and best maintained E17 I've run across. I am far more productive in Bodhi than anywhere else! The support and community feel are second to none!

--Jay

[kartoos77]

My 6 year old PC just seems to fly with Bodhi, never seen this baby boot faster in the past. First time I used bodhi was when it was still in alpha, then I used Bodhi 1 for a bit but had a few issues with the network manager. Been using Bodhi 1.2 since yesterday and I must say it has come a long way. Cheers to the Bodhi team for all their dedication and hard work. Now I am going to plug in my 9 year old acer scanner and see if it's still alive

[mardhi]

Bodhi's patron letter must be f because it is fast, flexible, fun and free, with a fantastic, friendly community!

[Timmy]

mardhi, on 10 October 2011 - 11:52 AM, said:

Bodhi's patron letter must be f because it is fast, flexible, fun and free, with a fantastic, friendly community!

Haha, nice one!

+1

[Jose]

mardhi, on 10 October 2011 - 11:52 AM, said:

Bodhi's patron letter must be f because it is fast, flexible, fun and free, with a fantastic, friendly community!

This is one for the quotes page .

[aeonius]

Jose, on 10 October 2011 - 11:54 AM, said:

This is one for the quotes page .

noted =)

[mardhi]

Haha thanks, all. What I like is that, after posting, I realised that it rhymes, completely by coincidence!

[Sigmund]

mardhi, on 10 October 2011 - 11:52 AM, said:

Bodhi's patron letter must be f because it is fast, flexible, fun and free, with a fantastic, friendly community!

Another +1 This wins the thread.

[Tussius]

Sigmund, on 10 October 2011 - 08:28 PM, said:

Another +1 This wins the thread.

Agreed!

[fore17]

So, here we have Bodhi FLD:
Bodhi fast, flexible, fun, free, fantastic and friendly linux distro.

[TwotT]

Fast,Lightweight,Very elegant....and my prefered DE/WM....keep up the great work in making an Enlightenment Distro with perhaps some longevity.I'm very glad i found Bodhi with enough exhaustive searching.

[oldexplorer]

I stumbled upon Bodhi Linux by pure accident while taking a few lesser-known flavours from Distrowatch for a test drive. These days I've become rather jaded about new distros - but Bodhi achieved something extremely unusual... it actually made me sit up in my chair and pay attention. A solid Ubuntu-powered desktop that installs effortlessly, runs fast and lets you choose your own apps. It also happens to look really cool and futuristic - I think they say in America "ahead of the curve".

There seems to be a worrying trend towards desktop Linux being given a Fisher-Price interface with big buttons. But Bodhi doesn't do Fisher-Price. What it does do is be Samuel L. Jackson wearing a beret and John Lennon eyeglasses in a roomful of Midwest insurance salesmen.

[aeonius]

oldexplorer, on 18 October 2011 - 04:32 PM, said:

There seems to be a worrying trend towards desktop Linux being given a Fisher-Price interface with big buttons. But Bodhi doesn't do Fisher-Price. What it does do is be Samuel L. Jackson wearing a beret and John Lennon eyeglasses in a roomful of Midwest insurance salesmen.

That is a very cool comparison! Nice you think of it like that and the remark itself put a smile on my face. One for the quote section me thinks =)

[Justin_RO]

I have been a Mandriva user & fan for sometime but had to change due to some of the changes there. Ive switched to Aptosid and ArtistX but KDE drives me nuts and Gnome3 is insame. Besides that, both KDE and GNOME ask for too much memory just for some visual looks I do not care about. So, I had too search for something lighter but also chique . Thats when DW camed in handy and found out about Bodhi, To be honest, this minimal distro thing bothers me a bit, but I think you maybe right on some issue. It hapened to me for instance to install distros that camed with tons of software I never use...

But now since I'm using it for some while I see its stable, fast and eye catchy. I afirm that E looks far much better than any kde or gnome, and it uses less ram. So thumbs up everyone and keep up the good work. I've recomanded Bodhi to several friends and if last 2 keep their promise, then I can brag about 10 people who installed the system at my sugestion .

Go Bodhi .

[Nightstrike]

Hiya I like Bodhi 1.2.0, because its fast lightweight and stable, Bodhi and Enlightenment seems a good partnership to the current mainstream alternatives (Unity / Gnome 3.0), it also runns on both old and new machines and provides an elegant functional desktop for its users. I am en Ex-Ubuntu user that has been converted to Bodhi recently, keep up the good work and cheers for an ace linux OS.

As an intermediate user of Linux (I was Ubuntu from 8.10 to 11.04), I find the lack of "Bloatware" refreshing and I like having only the minimum programs required provided as default with the choice to install my own program choices later a brilliant idea.