Bodhi is one of a tiny number of distros which use the Enlightenment desktop by default, the other that I can think of being Elive. ("Bodhi" is Sanscrit for "Enlightenment", BTW.) Bodhi is Ubuntu-based and was created by college student Jeff Hoogland.
Having completed grad school and entered the working world, Jeff found he was stretched a bit thin, so, in the Summer of 2014, he stepped away from the helm of his creation. As he revealed in his interview with Christine Hall earlier this month
My wife and I recently purchased our first home, our eleven month old son is happy and healthy, and we are expecting our second child this summer.
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He posted a notice of his return to Bodhi yesterday on his blog, Thoughts on Technology.
"Today I am happy to share that I am returning [to Bodhi] in my full capacity as project manager/lead developer and I come bearing gifts!"
The gifts consisted of "reloaded" release candidates of the upcoming 3.0.0 version of Bodhi in both 32 and 64 bit versions.
"Over the past couple of weeks I have re-familiarized myself with what has been going on in the land of Enlightenment and cleaning up the Bodhi build scripts".
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Although we are late in reporting the fact, within days of announcing the demise of Bodhi Linux it is announced that the distro will continue on as the torch has been passed on to other volunteers. Distrowatch has again added it to their Distro Ranking List and lists Bodhi's page as being in "active" development.
As the handing-over maintainer, Jeff, says:
Bodhi 3 will happen at some point, but they don't have any firm time lines right now. Thankfully - all the delays mean E19 "stable" has been released and will be the default desktop for the x86/64bit releases. I'll let the new folks post updates once they get all my build scripts sorted and start getting pre-releases out to test.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday January 22 2015, @01:49PM
Busy work, it seems, gluing everything together. I wonder if maintaining a distro could be more automated, maybe fully automated. How?
Would have to download updates to source code automatically, from wherever they're hosted, which sometimes changes. Maybe that means building some sort of list or search engine to find new releases. Then there's building the code, linking to whichever libraries the distro is trying to use. And testing.
Anyway, it's definitely one of the uses for fast computing. Near impossible to throw too much hardware at distro maintenance. How long does it take to completely rebuild a massive distro like Debian? Something like 3 days or a week for one PC?
(Score: 2) by Adamsjas on Friday January 23 2015, @02:10AM
To build one architecture isn't that long on modern hardware. The problem is all the different archs you have to compile, link, document dependencies and package.
Opensuse runs a build service that many of these smaller distributions use, so once you do it the first time for your shiny new distro, you can pretty much "can" the operation and run it again.
Linux.com lists 198 different distros (some differ very little from their parent).
Distrowatch.com has a list of at least the top 285.
There's like 130 different Debian based distros that they keep track of.
I use to try a new one of these out every couple months.
(Score: 2) by useless on Thursday January 22 2015, @05:33PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 22 2015, @10:03PM
Any distro without systemd is worth trying. Pity most of them are now going down the drain.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 22 2015, @10:11PM
Yep. It was a good run while it lasted, but, let's face it...the people actually BUILT the internet and did all this great stuff are dying off/retiring/whatever, and they're replaced by legions of people who grew up thinking Windows 95 is the world's first operating system.
"Linux" as we know it is already unrecognizable as compared to just a decade ago; in another decade it'll be all but extinct.
(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Friday January 23 2015, @03:19AM
Here's a link the Bodhi web site: http://www.bodhilinux.com/ [bodhilinux.com]
Sigh....